The owner of a Birmingham (UK) comedy club named “Glee” has sued 20th Century Fox, producer of the television show “Glee” (now broadcast in England) for trademark infringement.
Apparently, he has a registration for “The Glee Club,” dating from 2001, or perhaps 1999, for entertainment services.  According to the local paper:
The 43-year-old claimed the hugely-successful series [...]

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At Prawfsblawg, Derek Bambauer has some provocative thoughts about cultural commons that follow up on the “Convening Cultural Commons” workshop that I co-hosted a week ago at NYU, with Brett Frischmann and Kathy Strandburg.
Derek writes:
[T]here was one looming issue that the conferees couldn’t resolve: what, exactly, is a commons?
The short answer is: no one knows. Ostrom’s [...]

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OK, at some level I understand that this is a serious lawsuit. As reported by the AP, Hooters has accused a former executive of taking confidential information to his new employer, rival Twin Peaks restaurants.
Now, I’d never heard of Twin Peaks restaurants before (do I smell some kind of trademark or dilution claim out [...]

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