Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log

Ann Bartow: Deere case involves the infantilization -- gaying up -- of a masculine icon. Does the analysis work a different way when the ...

Ann Shalleck, WCL, introductory remarks: We have to change the conference name to “mapping the connections.” As Google reminds us, there a...

Introductory remarks by Margaret Jane Radin, Princeton University: She was always uncomfortable with “Women and the Law,” thinking that gend...

Two notes about the opinion : 1. The court relies in part on the unlikelihood of many prosecutions actually occurring under the law, becaus...

Because really, what's a blog for? Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science , 86 Texas L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007). ...

Eric Goldman posted about the KinderStart dismissal. He will have more to say, but I wanted to do my “ news for storage jars ” version ab...

Merisant Co. v. McNeil Nutritionals, LLC , 2007 WL 707359 (E.D. Pa.) This case about sugar substitutes raises a variety of significant issu...

Landmark American Ins. Co. v. Ray, 2006 WL 4092436 (W.D. Tex.) The Scooter Store sued Ray, who was doing business as the Scooter Wareho...

Intervention, Inc. v. Avanir Pharmaceuticals et al., 2007 WL 772889 (Cal. App. 1 Dist.) This was an appeal by an objector to a settleme...

William Patry has a blog post about my article My Fair Ladies here , making several points worth discussing. To begin with, he notes that...

Baden Sports, Inc. v. Molten, 2007 WL 703394 (W.D. Wash.) Baden developed and patented a new game-quality, cushioned basketball. Bade...

Federal Insurance Co. v. Symons Corp., 2007 WL 689679 (Cal. App. 1 Dist.) Symons lost a large Lanham Act false advertising case, also involv...

You can also find My Fair Ladies on my site, here . [Edited to reflect that the login requirement at BePress was accidental and has been co...

New publication: My Fair Ladies: Sex, Gender, and Fair Use in Copyright , 15 Am. U. J. Gender, Soc. Pol’y & L. 273 (2007).

King Kaufman has some sensible things to say , though he disclaims any legal expertise. All I know about the Superbowl is that Sci-Fi didn...