“Simpsons Get Real-Life ‘Kwik-e-Marts”
“The Fox/7-Eleven deal is an example of a practice called reverse product placement. Instead of just putting products prominently in a movie or TV show, fake goods move from the screen to reality.”
Wiki entry on Kwik-E-Mart.

Australian Duff Beer case.
Albuquerque Isotope dispute here.
Famous products

A while back the sex columnist from Esquire called me up to ask whether, in theory, a new sexual position could be protected. Well, let’s see. A physical position probably couldn’t be patented, although devices to enable the position could be. The idea of a new position couldn’t be copyrighted, but, viewing a sexual position…

The Gray Blog, concentrating on the gray market, from the law firm that brings you The Counterfeit Law Blog.

See you on Monday.

If you were fortunate, then you got a chance to know Jeff Brandt. He died unexpectedly at the age of 52, on Wednesday, most likely of a heart attack or stroke. He was a loving husband and father, a doting grandfather, and a talented laywer (he was involved in the issuance of one of the…

1,825 days of blogging. Here are posts from five years ago, typos and all.

Proving that I have the face for radio and the voice for print, I recently recorded two podcasts with the lovely and talented Colette Vogele, San Francisco IP lawyer and podcast empresario.
The first podcast is about Trademark Application Basics, and is intended to address the sort of issues raised in that first…

I will be one of the speakers at Thomson Compumark’s IP Law Educational Forum: “Trademark Law and The Internet.” IT will be May 22, 9 AM, at Thomson Compumark’s offices on Fifth Avenue.
Trademark Law and the Internet is a big topic. It could include:
Domain name policing
International domain names
Search engine…