Wednesday, April 26, 2006

End of semester amusements

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As I finish up writing this year's exams, I thought I'd post my favorite question from last year's trademark exam. Pictures are...
Monday, April 24, 2006

How to get discovery into hospital review board proceedings

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Ryan v. Staten Island University Hospital , 2006 WL 1025890 (E.D.N.Y.) Plaintiff sought discovery to support her claims of fraud, med...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

Bob Brauneis on geographic marks

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Bob Brauneis, Geographic Marks and the Protection of Competitor Communications, GW IP Colloquium, Apr. 10, 2006 Professor Brauneis and h...
Friday, April 14, 2006

False advertising about illegal goods

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United States v. Williams , --- F.3d ----, 2006 WL 871200 (11th Cir. ) You won’t find much discussion of child pornography jurisprudenc...

FDA preemption of Lanham Act claims: a change is in the water

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Vermont Pure Holdings, Ltd. v. Nestlé Waters North America, Inc. , 2006 WL 839486 (D. Mass.) This case concerns claims about the source,...
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Saturday, April 08, 2006

The Norton Anthology

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Right of publicity issue (and, I suppose, trademark issue over the name of the show). Many other interesting pieces of art at the site, in...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006

The is and the ought in fair use get further apart

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Or maybe in this context it's the will and the won't. Fair use presumes that copyright owners won't authorize critical, transfo...
Saturday, April 01, 2006

False marking and false advertising of exercise machines

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Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., v. The Nautilus Group, Inc., 2006 WL 753002 (D. Utah) Previous opinion discussed here . For over a de...

A model of how not to succeed under California law

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Bezuszka v. L.A. Models, Inc., 2006 WL 770526 (S.D.N.Y.) Even juicy allegations about young models won’t always help in court. Plainti...

Another reason I'm not fond of the Copyright Clearance Center

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Resnick v. Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. , 2006 WL 721535 (D. Mass.) Plaintiffs are freelance photographers who registered copyrights in ...
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Fit as a filter

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The Holmes Group, Inc. v. RPS Products, Inc., --- F.Supp.2d ----, 2006 WL 785056 (D. Mass.) Replacement filters for portable air purifier...
Friday, March 31, 2006

Important keyword decision from SDNY

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This case, decided March 30, is particularly important because of a recent case allowing a trademark infringement claim against a keyword pu...

For Pete (Ross)'s sake

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I've seen several posts like this one defending DC & Marvel's shared trademark on SUPERHERO for comic books and related goods. ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Harry and the Potters

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"The idea is that the Harry Potter from Year 7 and the Harry Potter from Year 4 started a rock band. And now...
Monday, March 27, 2006

Those pesky California class actions

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Janda v. T-Mobile, USA, Inc., 2006 WL 708936 (N.D .Cal.) Another California case denying a cell phone company’s argument that a putativ...