Judge Richard J. Daronco was our trial advocacy professor in law school (he had been elevated to the District Court the year before and was continuing to teach as an adjunct). We were lucky. Once, one of us was flailing about trying to argue something, and he couldn’t control himself. He jumped from behind the
Text of TTAB Opposition to GRUYERE Certification Mark
Various producers of GRUYERE cheese are opposing an application for GRUYERE as a certification mark by Switzerland’s Interprofession du Gruyère and France’s Syndicat Interprofessionnel du Gruyère.
The term “certification mark” means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof–
(1) used by a person other than its owner, or
(2) which its owner
SDNY: TheScore v ScoreStream
TheScore provides online sports daata and news, while SocreSTream pro “allows you to quickly score games and share sport scores with friends and family.”
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Read the Complaint in CREW v Trump (Emoluments)
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Text of Updated Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of IP
FTC press release on updated Antitrust IP licensing guidelines.
National Law Review comments on updated guidelines for the Licensing of IP.
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Transcript of Oral Argument in In Re Tam
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In Which I Help Light The World’s Largest Menorah ™
The Lubavitcher Youth Organization is a social services organization associated with Chabad, a Jewish Hasidic movement. Since 1977, it has organized the lighting of the World’s Largest Menorah ™ in Manhattan at 59th and Fifth. The menorah is 20 cubits tall. A cubit, as we all know, is a biblical unit of measure based on
$102, which includes $2 for Credit Cards vs. $102, with a $2 Discount for Cash – SCOTUS Oral Argument Transcript
From blog post by Jane Yakowitz frames the issue in Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman (heard yesterday by SCOTUS) as follows:
Imagine an electronics store in New York needs to recoup $100 on the sale of a television. If the store owner labels the television with a sticker price of “$100 plus $2 for credit
Plaintiff Alleges Photo of Her Earned $2.2 Billion for Chipotle and Now She Wants That Money Back
A woman whose picture was taken in a Chipotle Restaurant, has sued Chipotle for displaying the photo without her authorization (and editing in a glass of alcohol in front of her). She seeks $750 in actual damages and another $2.2 billion in punitive damages.
Blurry copy of photo seems to be Exhibit A of Complaint.
I’ve Come Here With A View To Asking You To Try Google Translate
I try to read all UDRP decisions in which complaints are rejected, but I have to skip two or three a week because they’re not in English. Today I came across the Spanish-language decision below in which Pernod’s complaint against the registrant for DOMECQ.WINE was rejected. I had read this NY Times article regarding rapid