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[Original post redacted.] Chanel, Inc. v. Heller, 1-14-CV-08011-JGK (S.D.N.Y.) (Notice of Voluntary Dismissal, filed Dec. 4, 2014)
View ArticleInterview for Washington Square News (NYU student newspaper) article,...
Washington Square News, NYU's Independent Student Newspaper, has published an article, "Fashion, lawsuits unexpected pair," in its November 5, 2014, issue. In the piece, staff reporter Sam Del Rowe...
View ArticlePresentation on work-in-progress by Charles E. Colman, "Patents and Perverts"...
Charles E. Colman, "Patents and Perverts"(Nov. 2014 presentation given at Marquette Law)[To download this presentation as a pdf, visit SSRN.] read more
View ArticleOfficial court complaint in former ANTM contestant Angelea Preston's lawsuit...
Preston v. Banks, BC566135 (Cal. Sup. Ct.) (Complaint, filed Dec. 10, 2014)
View ArticleChanel, fashion house, forces Chanel Jones, hairstylist, to settle by signing...
"Consent judgments" (a/k/a "consent decrees") are very, very dangerous -- especially when wielded by a powerful corporation against a pro se defendant. The defendant in this case probably could have...
View ArticleAfter literally years of waiting, we've finally gotten a ruling from the...
But even after all this time, the majority opinion doesn't contain a holding on copyright misuse!!! The still-amorphous equitable defense is, however, addressed in the much more in-depth opinion...
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Katy Perry's Left Shark trademark applications hit a snag; my commentary on...
As World IP Reviewreports, some of Katy Perry's 'Left Shark' trademark applications have hit a snag at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The TESS entry for one of the applications in question is...
View ArticleCartier sues for copyright and design-patent infringement (and this shouldn't...
See, I keep telling you about the existence of copyright protection (or copyright pitfalls, depending on your perspective) in the fashion-design context, even under U.S. law. In fact, the history and...
View ArticleBig changes; my story "Thomas Dreams of Separability" (newly published by the...
So... In the nearly three years since my last post on this blog, there have been important changes in just about every area of law and life. Many of those changes will require little (additional)...
View ArticleI am the groundhog
Montres Breguet S.A. et al [Swatch] v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., 1-19-CV-01708 (S.D.N.Y.) (Complaint, filed Feb. 22, 2019)
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