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All the suntan lotion in the world…

Ron Coleman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:41:52 +0000

Originally posted 2014-09-08 18:10:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter[Note: This post was quoted by the New York Times. Cool, huh? — RDC] Yesterday I was here, in the stupidestly-designed courthouse on God’s brutally-baked brown desert earth — the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. It is truly a marvel of arrogance. Imagine being […]

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Blawg Review: Infamy, Praise, Several Butchers’ Aprons

Ron Coleman — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:34:35 +0000

Originally posted 2005-12-05 11:16:11. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe new Blawg Review is up at Colin Samuels’ Infamy or Praise. Colin explains the origin of his blog’s name — Dante’s Inferno, which is also the source of the title of one of the most influential books in my life (Inferno probably should have influenced me […]

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Best of 2011: Ninth Circuit. Keywords. Trademarks. Hike!

Ron Coleman — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:21:29 +0000

Originally posted 2011-12-21 08:40:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterFirst posted on March 11, 2011. Here’s a roundup of what other people are saying about the decision in Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced System Concepts, Inc. involving keyword advertising using other folks’ trademarks (a form of the dreaded “diversion“!) and perhaps implicating secondary liability for trademark infringement: […]

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Inside s©oop.

Matthew David Brozik — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:12:10 +0000

Originally posted 2014-02-03 14:43:26. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe other day, I received an email from a Registration Specialist, Literary Division at the U.S. Copyright Office. She’d written to ask me to submit again/separately the graphics incorporated in a literary work I’d applied (entirely electronically, mind you) to have registered. When I’d sent her the […]

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Talk about your business method patents!

Ron Coleman — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:08:42 +0000

Originally posted 2010-05-26 12:48:34. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSander Gelsing, Canadian Patent and Trademark Trade Mark Lawyer, picks up on a doozy.

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Char’ed, I’m sure (updated, again, November 2013)

Ron Coleman — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:56:02 +0000

Originally posted 2012-01-31 00:01:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterUpdated version of the post first found here on December 8, 2009. Poor Starbucks. So much trademark trouble they have! Other trouble, too. And now the people who gave you five-dollar coffee in a paper cup had lost another one — one they thought they had won, […]

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Trademarks and the candidates

Ron Coleman — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:52:06 +0000

Originally posted 2016-11-11 11:04:02. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIt’s a little late, but not irrelevant for all that: Click through (before they archive it!) to read what the so-called “IP experts” (yes, LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® is supposedly one of them!) have to say.

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Counterfeit ethics

Ron Coleman — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:42:33 +0000

Originally posted 2007-11-02 11:42:42. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSusan Scafidi digs up a real winner: From the continuing annals of faux ethics comes an email from “Kim” — no further signature provided — objecting to Counterfeit Chic’s notes on Jessica Kagan Cushman’s clever scrimshaw bracelets, Chanel’s alleged copies, and Forever 21’s reported copies of the […]

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Why a Million-Subscriber Channel is Suing YouTube

Ron Coleman — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:35:31 +0000

Originally posted 2022-08-25 10:27:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I represent Business Casual in this matter.

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Another case on Internet anonymity

Ron Coleman — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:12:25 +0000

Originally posted 2012-07-31 13:09:38. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEvan Brown reports that an Arizona state court has adopted a three part test for unmasking anonymous online speakers: The court looked to the 2005 case of Doe v. Cahill which requires (1) that the anonymous party sought to be unmask[ed] be given notice of the proceedings, […]

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Who owns the copyright in scans of public domain works?

Ron Coleman — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:03:03 +0000

Originally posted 2012-09-19 14:27:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I love Plan59.com. If you’re my age or a little older, almost any click on this smartly designed and comprehensive website can recreate a certain feeling that comes with recalling a much more secure, confident and simple America — kind of like the grown up version […]

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Best of 2009: “Fraud on the PTO: Is it real, or all in my mind?”

Ron Coleman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:50:22 +0000

Originally posted 2010-01-01 11:30:30. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThis was first posted on September 3, 2009. Big decision, via the TTABlog®: The worm, finally, finally, has turned on the issue of the cancellation of trademark registrations based on “fraud on the PTO,” typically arising where the description of goods and services in a registration application […]

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