Two quick thoughts regarding this Aididas three stripe lawsuit. First. I’m surprised that a shoe manufacturer other than Aididas would put three strips on a sneaker, in this day and age. Second, I see that the defendant offers a ‘design your own sneaker’ service. If I want to put three stripes, or a swoosh
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Links Relating to SOPA Compiled By Prof Goldman Plus Two More
Links relating to SOPA compiled by Prof Goldman.
Wiki page on SOPA (read the discussion of DNS filtering, especially about the Pakistan/YouTube episode, around footnotes 30 to 32. The Pakistan/YouTube episode (allegedly) occurred when a single Pakistani DNS server was deliberately mis-configured so as to ‘blacklist’ YouTube in Pakistan, resulting in world-wide outages for YouTbe…
New York Area 3Ls: We Need An Intern
We’re looking for a third year law student, to be a (paid) intern, starting after the holidays. The position would involve mostly contentious stuff, as in trademark policing. Demonstrated interest in IP. I’m not looking for someone to help on the blog. This is a real law job as in research and writing and deadlines.…
Colbert and Zittrain on SOPA
Colbert on Stop Online Piracy Act
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The GLOVEABLES Are Off
Gloveables sues terminated licensee for continuing to suggest endorsement. Defendant is the first organic hit in Google so you can understand plaintiff’s distress. The first ironic advertisements for kitchen gloves and aprons I’ve seen.
Complaint Gloveables(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];…
Alternative TO SOPA Proposed
TechDirt: Alternative To PIPA/SOPA Proposed; Points Out That This Is An International Trade Issue:
While the MPAA has been pretending that there are no alternatives beyond the insanity that is PIPA and SOPA, some in Congress have actually been hard at work on trying to think through the specific issues. And one key point
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Dot Anything as Dot Descriptive – Registrability of TLD Suffixes
John Welch discusses a TTAB decision in which the Board rejects five applications for .MUSIC on descriptiveness grounds (the applications covered various IT services including domain name registration.
Applicant pointed out various prior regs for “.” and “dot” formative marks. The Board noted that that was then, and this is now. Now there is an…
Acme Widget – Q logo v Q logo
Not an unusual case – defendant allegedly reproduces plaintiff’s registered Q logo on its website. I was just curious as to what a company named Acme Widget did. Turns out to be financing in the aviation sector.
Complaint Acme Widget q Logo(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async =…
Grew A Mustache and a Mullet, And Ate More Kale
We have a share in a ‘community-supported agriculture’ organic food plan and we get more green leafy vegetables than we know what to do with. My wife places kale flat on a baking pan, drizzles it with olive oil, puts it in the oven, and out comes kale chips. My nine year old eats loads…