As the academic year gears up, here’s a reminder that folks at Pitt Law offer the following resources to law professors:
The Legal Scholarship Blog, co-produced with the University of Washington School of Law, keeps up with law-related calls for papers, conferences, and workshops across all disciplines.  You can find it at http://legalscholarshipblog.com/  To have an [...]

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The newest addition to my reading list is Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, a brand new book by Bill Patry, coming imminently from Oxford.    (September 3 is the official publication date, but the Oxford site reports that the book is in stock.  Here’s the Oxford link.)  Bill’s voice is one of the most experienced [...]

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Two of the hottest cases in American IP law are the subjects of recent podcasts:
SCOTUScast presents a dialogue on the Bilski case now before the Supreme Court, primarily between Michael Risch of West Virginia University and Josh Sarnoff of American University Washington College of Law.  The dialogue is moderated by Adam Mossoff of George Mason [...]

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I think what happened is that I failed to uncheck all the boxes reflecting my “agreement” to accept a bunch of gratuitous crap Real Audio was trying to foist on me as a condition of a software upgrade. Why the Google Chrome browser was one of the presumptive downloads I have no idea. To me [...]

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Yesterday I saw an article about a jewelry heist in London where two men in nice suits got away with $65 million of merchandise. The weird part to me was that the store had a similar event in 2003 where 23 million pounds worth of jewels were taken, and more recently in 2007 a branch [...]

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For time to time, I like to remind folks that they should look up from work and take note of the world around them. Today, or rather tonight, is just such a time to do that. Yes, it is Perseid meteor shower time! I remember a particularly spectacular one around when Star Wars or Empire [...]

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Academic angst about the Google Book Search settlement is well on its way to reaching a fever pitch, with fora and conference galore scheduled between now and the October hearing on confirmation of the deal.
But if the stakes for books and knowledge are greater than that, then ways need to be found to bring the [...]

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As Ann reports below, Mark Lemley and Mark McKenna are sharing a new paper on the overbreadth of “likelihood of confusion” analysis in contemporary trademark law. These thesis of the paper seems incontrovertible to me, but the paper frames its argument with an initial anecdote that bears a little exploration. They write:
In 2006, thousands of [...]

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Major League Baseball has signed a deal with Topps, the baseball card company now controlled by Michael Eisner, that will give Topps exclusive rights to produce trading cards using images of major league ballplayers and marks of MLB teams.
The deal may be questionable under antitrust law. Not unlawful, but questionable, given the American Needle [...]

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It’s Day Two of IPSC, an annual work in progress conference for Intellectual Property Law scholars. It’s great to see so many friends in one place, and to learn about all of the interesting research going on. I sat in on Copyright sessions yesterday, but am starting off today in a Trademark track, which [...]

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The Pittsburgh region is reeling this week after three women were murdered and nine others wounded in a mass shooting at a suburban LA Fitness facility by a man who is being described by local media as someone whose self-professed hatred of women resulted from isolation that can be traced to … wait for it [...]

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Like Deven, I’ve been mostly AWOL on the blog for much of the last several weeks (it’s been an unusually busy travel summer for me), and easing back into the swing of blogging things after a hiatus always requires some delicacy.  There’s a lot going on in the IP and Internet law and policy world; [...]

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I know I have not posted in a little bit. Some explanation is in order. As previous posts noted, through the good graces of Peter Yu, the University of Hong Kong, and the South China University of Technology, Intellectual Property School & Law School, Guangzhou, I was in Hong Kong and China until mid-June. But [...]

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