2014

This is a lawsuit my firm filed against a company that we allege is a ‘trademark scammer.’ Defendants moved to dismiss. The Court maintained our false advertising claim. 43(b)log comments here.

leason ellis v pta.pdf

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Last night I took the family to see ’22 Jump Street’ (“Mindless fun” says The Trademark Blog. “Could have been a lot worse”) and we saw the trailer (above) for “The Interview,” a Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy scheduled for release this fall. The movie appears to be about an attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the

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Federation of Telegu Associations of Southern California sue Telegu Association of Southern California. Telegu is a language with the third highest number of native speakers in India, thirteenth worldwide.

telugu v telugu.pdf

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6 to 3 (Scalia, Alito and Thomas dissent).

abc v aereo.pdf

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Things to think about with regard to yesterday’s TTAB decision cancelling the REDSKINS registrations:

1. The TTAB proceeding is not the main event.

The interplay between First Amendment protections and other laws leads to, uh, uneven results. A federal court can enjoin use of the mark WASHINGTON LOUIS VUITTONS, as infringing speech can be regulated.

As if I didn’t have enough on my mind, after reading this complaint about allegedly false statements about whether there is enough silver in defendant’s keyboards to make them ‘anti-microbial’, I am now worried about microbes in my keyboard. Quick, get the compressed air.

man _ machine v seal shield.pdf

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