Oh my, as Dick Enberg (or was it Dorothy Gale?) would say.
A federal magistrate judge in Louisiana granted a defense motion for summary judgment the other day in a case brought by Firefly Digital against Google, seeking to enforce Firefly’s “Gadget” mark, and some related marks (”Website Gadget”) registered at both federal and state levels, with [...]

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The future of the legal profession is a topic usually reserved for social scientists and legal scholars who focus on the profession itself.  Last Spring, I wrote here that the future of the legal profession is an innovation problem, on a par with the problems that beset the steel industry in the 1960s and 1970s [...]

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Here is an update to my recent post about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Terrible Towel trademark and my questions about the validity of the mark in view of the (i) licensing relationship between the owner of the mark (the Allegheny Valley School) and the licensee of the mark (the Steelers), which appears to be entirely appropriate [...]

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The “Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment” paper and project that I have been working on for some time now with Brett Frischmann (Cardozo) and Kathy Strandburg (NYU) takes a leap forward later this month.  Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, whose work was our starting point, will be giving a free, public keynote lecture at NYU’s [...]

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