The reporting on Disney’s application for SEAL TEAM 6 is omitting an interesting fact. The Navy owns registration 3285473 for SEAL, registered in 2007. The specimen is reproduced above. It is a collective mark indicating membership in a “organization of applicant that develops and executes military missions involving special operations strategy, doctrine, and tactics.”
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“Meet the Bloggers VII” aka IP Law BlogFestivus is this coming Tuesday, SwigBar, 561 Geary, SF, 8 pm to 10 pm.
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You do not need to be able to attend “Meet the Bloggers” in SF to be included in the List o’ Blogs. But we do hope you’ll be there, 8 pm, Tuesday, May 17, Swig Bar, 561 Geary.
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This is a guest post by my partner, Peter Sloane:
Like most all law firms, we at Leason Ellis have a name comprised of partner surnames. Whether or not the decision to adopt the name was originally made to comply with state bar regulations or comport with custom is of no moment since goodwill has
This year, Meet The Bloggers VII (or BlogFest, as Marty insists on referring to it), will have a little bit of structure, but not so much as to detract from the drinking.
First things first – the loft at SWIG BAR, TUESDAY May 17, 8 to 10 pm, 561 Geary Street, SF.
Everyone
OK, maybe not a fascinating case but my colleagues Paul, Cameron and Yuval won a motion to transfer. The Western District, Pennsylvania court held that Ohio plaintiff’s choice of forum of Pittsburgh, is to be given less deference when the plaintiff is not from that forum. The only nexus to the forum there was plaintiff’s