Friday, November 15, 2013

Some days Starbucks gets the bear, some days the bear gets Starbucks

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Starbucks Corp. v. Wolfe’s Borough Coffee, Inc., No. 12 ‐ 364 ‐ cv (2d Cir. Nov. 15, 2013) The district court found that defendant’...

Is disclosure of recurring charges enough?

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At Slate, a story about Boingo raises questions about what other steps a business ought to take to ensure that consumers make informed deci...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Organization for Transformative Works submits comments on remix to PTO/NTIA

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Or, what I did while not on summer vacation.  An extended discussion of why transformative, noncommercial works and cultures are valuable an...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Research post available at University of Cambridge

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Lionel Bently passes on the following: a 2 year research post studying questions of newspapers, digitisation and copyright, is available at ...

Surveys in defamation cases?

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Eriq Gardner at THR Esq. rightly flags this tantalizing tidbit about Tom Cruise’s pending defamation lawsuit (okay, I have a very specif...
Monday, November 11, 2013

November 21st: WIPO Dir. Gen. Gurry at GW Law - Lecture and Live Webcast

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The George Washington University Law School Intellectual Property Law Program cordially invites you to attend a lecture by   The Honorable...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Law in an Age of Disruptive Technology, Georgetown Law Journal Symposium

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3D Printing   Moderated by Rebecca Tushnet • Georgetown University Law Center Deven R. Desai & Gerard N. Magliocca, Patents, M...

Bernt Hugenholtz on Flexing Authors' Rights

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American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, The 2nd Annual Peter Jaszi Disting...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

Maxim suffers from max delay

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Alpha Media Group, Inc. v. Corad Healthcare, Inc., No. 13 Civ. 5438, 2013 WL 5912227 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 4, 2013) AMG, which publishes Maxi...

Chat rooms in history

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The Boston Globe's 1960s Confidential Chat has it all, from pseudonyms to flame wars about women who worked outside the home v. women wh...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Can't use your phone on your Delta flight? Blame trademark licensing!

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Slate reports on the fact that many Delta-branded planes aren't really Delta planes, but operated by lower-paid carriers , and thus not ...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

HAMP-ed up UCL claim resurrected on appeal

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Lueras v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, 2013 WL 5848859, No. G046799, --- Cal.Rptr.3d ---- (Ct. App. Oct. 31, 2013) The new frontier:...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Misleading health insurance letters?

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Report on letters discouraging consumers from investigating cheaper alternatives and subsidies here  at Talking Points Memo.  Exercise for t...

No class action against payment processor for multiple sites

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Yordy v. Plimus, Inc., No. C12-0229, 2013 WL 5832225 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 29, 2013) Yordy went to   TheNovelNetwork.com, which allegedly p...
Friday, November 01, 2013

Peter Jaszi Lecture: Bernt Hugenholtz on Flexing Authors' Rights

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American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property  Presents The 2nd Annual Pet...