Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log

Silicon Image, Inc. v. Analogix Semiconductor, Inc., 2008 WL 4974325 (N.D. Cal.) Silicon sued Analogix for copyright infringement, trad...

Spotted on the streets of DC, this Pom Wonderful ad. The Hells Angels are fearless, willing to litigate even against Disney ; wonder what t...

Kevin Kelly’s feature in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Becoming Screen Literate , is a fascinating read. Kelly argues that the average...

The New York Times campaign blog has an interview with the designer of the Obama logo. I was interested in the designer's initial disco...

CALL FOR PAPERS American University Washington College of Law IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections 6 th Annual Symposium April 24...

letmegooglethatforyou.com -- perhaps we should ask it "what is initial interest confusion and is it a good idea?"

Okay, look, there are only so many headlines possible here. Stephen Colbert on the vicious comparative ad battle between Campbell's an...

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is running an ad campaign with that theme. The conceit is that a clueless mom, Patsy, is posting v...

Matt Stahl, Recording Artists, Work for Hire, Employment, and Appropriation abstract: Authorship and ownership exist in a curious relation i...

This special edition of the New York Times is special indeed, coming to us as it does from the future. I highly recommend the corrections ...

Last Thursday would have been Bob Oakley ’s 63 rd birthday. Bob, the director of the law library at Georgetown, was a dynamic and scholar...

Invista S.A.R.L. v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., 2008 WL 4865208 (S.D.N.Y.) Invista’s corporate predecessors formed a French join...

Richardson v. Stanley Works, Inc., 2008 WL 4838708 (D. Ariz.) Richardson sued Stanley for patent infringement and common-law unfair competit...

AU’s Center for Social Media has released another set of best practices, this time for fair use in media literacy education . Michael Madi...

E.S.S. Entertainment 2000, Inc. v. Rock Star Videos, Inc. (9 th Cir. 2008) The 9 th Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling tha...