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The Trademark Blog: Get The Knack Of Copyright Statute of Limitations

Posted on March 26, 2008
Trademark Blog EWeek Mac World MTV News Rolling Stone VH1 I have been sitting on this one for a while. I remember Run-DMC from way back in the day, along with others from the Queens hip hop scene. And in 1985, I was one of those kids in flyover country wearing parachute pants getting down to “It’s Tricky...

WULS: Volume 84 Number 5 (2006)

Posted on March 26, 2008
WULS: Volume 84 Number 5 (2006) Volume 84 Number 5 (2006) Washington University Law Review BLOGGERSHIP: HOW BLOGS ARE TRANSFORMING LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP The papers from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society?s symposium on Bloggership:  How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, held on April 28, 2006 at Harvard Law School, have been published...

H.R. 4137 Passes House with Section 494 attached.

Posted on February 12, 2008
HR 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, passed the house. It seeks to reduce higher education costs, increases Pell Grants, and . . . seeks to elimitate peer-to-peer file sharing on college campuses. Yes, just what higher ed has been clamboring for, more money for students and an unfunded mandate to police their computer [...

H.R. 4137 Passes House with Section 494 attached.

Posted on February 12, 2008
HR 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, passed the house. It seeks to reduce higher education costs, increases Pell Grants, and . . . seeks to elimitate peer-to-peer file sharing on college campuses. Yes, just what higher ed has been clamboring for, more money for students and an unfunded mandate to police their computer [...

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Arkansas IP Litigation Cases for the Week of January 26, 2008

Posted on January 31, 2008
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Flexible Staffing Services, Inc. et al v. Integro Employment Services, Inc.; Case Number:  5:2008cv05018; Filed:  January 22, 2008; Court:  Arkansas Western District Court  Flexible Staffing Services (FSS) seeks a declaratory judgment that [...

Arkansas IP Litigation Cases for the Week of January 26, 2008

Posted on January 31, 2008
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Flexible Staffing Services, Inc. et al v. Integro Employment Services, Inc.; Case Number:  5:2008cv05018; Filed:  January 22, 2008; Court:  Arkansas Western District Court  Flexible Staffing Services (FSS) seeks a declaratory judgment that [...

Pro-IP Act of 2007 - H. R. 4279

Posted on January 31, 2008
110th CONGRESS 1st Session    H. R. 4279 To enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, and for other purposes. ——————————————————————————– IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 5, 2007 Mr...

Pro-IP Act of 2007 - H. R. 4279

Posted on January 30, 2008
110th CONGRESS 1st Session    H. R. 4279 To enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, and for other purposes. ——————————————————————————– IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 5, 2007 Mr...

Cookbook Author Sues the Seinfelds for Copyright Infringement and Defamation

Posted on January 14, 2008
An Author Sues the Seinfelds, for a Cookbook and for Barbs - New York Times Missy Chase Lapine, the author of ?The Sneaky Chef,? a cookbook whose recipes camouflage puréed vegetables and fruits in comfort food for children, sued Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld on Monday, charging copyright infringement and defamation...

Cookbook Author Sues the Seinfelds for Copyright Infringement and Defamation

Posted on January 13, 2008
An Author Sues the Seinfelds, for a Cookbook and for Barbs - New York Times Missy Chase Lapine, the author of ?The Sneaky Chef,? a cookbook whose recipes camouflage puréed vegetables and fruits in comfort food for children, sued Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld on Monday, charging copyright infringement and defamation...

Fark.com Files NSFW Trademark Application

Posted on December 18, 2007
On December 3, 2007, Fark.com (NSFW) filed an application to trademark “Not Safe For Work,” pertaining to the following: (1) “Entertainment Services namely providing a website featuring photographic, audio, video and prose presentations featuring comedic captions regarding current events and online discussions and/or reviews of web materials of an adult nature” (2) “Entertainment services, namely, providing a [...

Fark.com Files NSFW Trademark Application

Posted on December 18, 2007
On December 3, 2007, Fark.com (NSFW) filed an application to trademark “Not Safe For Work,” pertaining to the following: (1) “Entertainment Services namely providing a website featuring photographic, audio, video and prose presentations featuring comedic captions regarding current events and online discussions and/or reviews of web materials of an adult nature” (2) “Entertainment services, namely, providing a [...

Same Netflix Company or Look-alike?

Posted on December 07, 2007
I was looking for info on something unimportant online the other day and ran across this company - DVDPost in Brussels, owned by company Home Entertainment Services S.A.   Which, I of course recognized as Netflix, Inc.:   Can anyone tell me if this is the same company, an homage, or just an international rip-off? [...

Same Netflix Company or Look-alike?

Posted on December 07, 2007
I was looking for info on something unimportant online the other day and ran across this company - DVDPost in Brussels, owned by company Home Entertainment Services S.A.   Which, I of course recognized as Netflix, Inc.:   Can anyone tell me if this is the same company, an homage, or just an international rip-off? [...

Arkansas IP Litigation Cases for the Week of November 24, 2007

Posted on December 04, 2007
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Nelson Design Group LLC v. Puckett et al; No. 3:2007cv00177 (07-117); Filed: November 21, 2007; Court: Arkansas Eastern District Court; Office: Jonesboro Office; County: Craighead Not much to see here...

Arkansas IP Litigation Cases for the Week of November 10, 2007

Posted on December 04, 2007
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Coulson Oil Company Inc v. Deweese Enterprises Inc; No. 4:2007cv01102; Filed: November 9, 2007; Court: Arkansas Eastern District Court Here is a Trademark Infringement lawsuit involving gas stations run by both [...

Arkansas IP Litigation Cases for the Week of November 24, 2007

Posted on December 04, 2007
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Nelson Design Group LLC v. Puckett et al; No. 3:2007cv00177 (07-117); Filed: November 21, 2007; Court: Arkansas Eastern District Court; Office: Jonesboro Office; County: Craighead Not much to see here...

Dell Cybersquatting Case

Posted on November 30, 2007
Last week, the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida unsealed a lawsuit that Dell filed in October. See story here: Dell Takes Cybersquatters to Court. The cybersquatting/typosquatting lawsuit is unique in that they are going after several registrars as being “responsible for registering and profiting off of nearly 1,100 domains that were “confusingly similar” to Dell’s [...

UMG v. Lindor: a minor victory

Posted on November 28, 2007
Ray Beckerman, attorney for defendant in UMG v. Lindor, an RIAA filesharing lawsuit, had a minor victory this week. Recording Industry vs. The People The judge in the case, Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy, gave a partial grant to defendant’s motion to compel discovery...

The Discovery Institute, Smarter than Harvard.

Posted on November 27, 2007
An observant molecular scientist in training noticed that the Discovery Institute copied a great Harvard BioVision video on how a cell works, and replaced the scientific narration with their own narration to prop up their Intelligent Design argument. Harvard/XVIVOs narration, all of the science, is whisked away and replaced with a ’surrealistic lilliputian realm’– ‘robots’, ‘manufacturing’, ‘circuitry’, ‘nano moters’, [...

Google/YouTube?s New Copyright Filter

Posted on November 26, 2007
In June 2006, Google confirmed the rumorsof a promised Copyright filtering engine for YouTube. As far as I can tell, the Filter hasn’t been fully implemented yet. You can sign up for a beta, however. The plan, in a nutshell, is for content owners to help build a database of copyrighted material (i...

New Adjunct Professor of Law

Posted on November 25, 2007
Next semester I will be an Adjunct Professor of Law at UALR Bowen School of Law. I will be teaching the Trademark Practicum, which is one of the five classes in the school’s Intellectual Property Course Concentration. Growing up, all I wanted to be was a professor, so I am living the dream...

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