Saturday, May 17, 2008

Institutional Review Boards and misattribution

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The Institutional Review Blog, in which I have a certain interest , regularly catalogs the failings of IRBs with respect to history and alli...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

The slogan you deserve

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“The Change You Deserve,” the new GOP slogan, was also a slogan for Effexor, an antidepressant drug, though it seems to have been abandoned ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

100 percent and then some: Pom Wonderful denied preliminary injunction

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Pom Wonderful LLC v. Purely Juice, Inc., 2008 WL 2019560 (9th Cir.) Pom Wonderful alleged that Purely Juice falsely advertised its po...

Damn Right We Changed It

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Michelle Koenig-Schwartz has begun Project: Canadian Club - Your Mom Had Groupies While I was out for a run recently, I saw a new ad for C...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Comparative ads trigger advertising injury coverage

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Harleysville Mutual Ins. Co. v. Buzz Off Insect Shield, L.L.C., -- S.E.2d --, 2008 WL 1945784 (N.C. App.) In early 2005, S.C. Johnson...

Industry standards don't define terms for false advertising purposes

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Wayne-Dalton Corp. v. Amarr Co., 2008 WL 1930786 (N.D. Ohio) The parties make garage doors. Both are members of a trade association...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Metatags are nominative fair use; lack of damages defeats other claims

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Syncsort Inc. v. Innovative Routines International, Inc., 2008 WL 1925304 (D.N.J.) The parties compete to sell sorting software for UNI...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

STS and IP: Innovation networks

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Session 6: Papers by Dana Wang (“Constructing and Objectivating Information: The Identification, Sourcing and Meaning of Information in R...

STS and IP: Patent narratives

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Session 5: Papers by Henry Huang (“Reevaluating Science in Patent Law: Lessons From the Historiography of Science”) and Dan Burk (“Patent...
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Saturday, May 10, 2008

STS and IP: Copyright education and patent agents

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Session 4: Papers by Tarleton Gillespie (“Characterizing Copyright in the Classroom: The Cultural Work of Anti-Piracy Campaigns”) and Kara S...

STS and IP: plants and genes (and authorship)

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Keynote Talk: Mario Biagioli (“The Author as Vegetable: Environmental Metaphors in the Discourse of the Commons and the Public Domain”) ...