This is from National Law Journal’s “The Docket:”

Man says show, movie infringe on his name
A Hot Springs, Mont., man who legally changed his name to Jack Ass in 1997 has filed a lawsuit against Viacom International Inc., the parent company of MTV, producer of the Jackass television show and movie. In …

The Supreme Court denied cert  today in Ty, Inc.v. Publications Int’l Ltd ., 292 F.3d 512 (7th Cir. 2002) (Upholding fair use of BEANIE BABY marks in collectors’ publications, Posner., J.).

SCOTUS Blog’s extensive linkage of the NIKE commercial speech case here.

Mattel requested that the Supreme Court hear its appeal of the Ninth Circuit decision in the BARBIE GIRL case (via Law.com).  This is the source of the now-famous “The parties are advised to chill” order, reported here.

China has apparently blocked all blogs hosted by Blogspot (this is a Userland blog and hasn’t been blocked (yet)).  For details, see Scripting News.

is the real deal.  Click here.

If you are losing your trademark suit at the trial level, then, as I always advise my clients, the options are settlement or appeal, not murdering the judge.

To the person who came to my site using the Google term “Find Current Addresses Boat Owners Saudi Arabia,” I’m sorry to disappoint you, but as long as you’re here, would you like to file a trademark application?

By the way, the previous item I ran on someone getting here via “Days of the Week…