Labeling to Save the Planet: GreenBlue’s New Program is FTC Green Guide Compliant
If your community recycles -- you can find out here if you're not sure -- then you probably are familiar with the plastic recycling symbols shown here: As if this…
Geekview IP week in Review — WTF Edition
I always suspected engaging in S&M might expose the participants to litigation. The accomplished photographer, artist and director, David LaChapelle, sued performing artist Rihanna for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, unfair…
Great-Grandma Gets Grumpy, Fights for her Rights (of Publicity)
A friend sent me an article about a great-grandmother who was irked over the use of her image in an ad supporting an Ohio voter referendum, Issue 2. If passed,…
Apple Tribute Infringement?
On October 5, 2011 Steve Jobs died and the world lost a great man. In honor, one of my tech friends, Eric Greenspan of Make It Work, posted the…
Geekview IP Week(s) in Review
Judge rolls away $1.3 billion barrel over which Oracle had SAP. Oracle sued SAP for copyright infringement, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and various state-law claims.…
Trademark Attorney Ponders Parody — Yankees v Evil Enterprises
Two Fridays ago I wrote about the world famous Hells Angels motorcycle club and today I've moved onto the world's second most famous baseball club (after the Red Sox, of…
Burning Man’s Burning Marks
Had my blog been functioning properly, you would have seen a post on August 31 announcing my Burning Hiatus (as well as two others on 08/28 & 08/30). While I…
Geekview IP Week in Review
Only in a trademark lawyer's fantasy . . . Parfums de Coeur, self-described as "a dominant marketer in the United States of women's and men's mass market fragrance brands under…
Geekview IP Week in Review
Comcast missed the goal when the Court declined to restrain DirecTV Soon on Sunday, they'll all be watching football. For now though the game is being played out in federal…
Geekview IP Week in Review
Wouldn't you sue if your late husband was the one who put Flint, Michigan on the map (of rap that is)? I began the first week in August with…