Likelihood of Success

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• Default of da system? Or, “Tally Ho!” May 14, 2012
  Via this patently entertaining post I was alerted to this somewhat more analytical one by Venkat Balasubramani, with Eric Goldman riding shotgun, decrying the $100 million default judgment entered in favor of Hermès: We’ve blogged repeatedly about trademark owners obtaining ex parte orders that provide extraordinarily broad relief, ranging from domain name s […]
• Cutting the baby in half May 14, 2012
  Originally posted 2007-02-06 01:14:35. Republished by Blog Post PromoterNegotiate your browser in the direction of Blawg Review #94! Cutting the baby in half ©, . […]
• Upper crust – the POCKET SANDWICHES croissants saga (Part 1 of 2) May 14, 2012
  Originally posted 2011-07-15 00:16:11. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLetters, we get letters. Sometimes people just want to share their trademark woes with me.  Sometimes they want free advice, or cheap advice, or just a broad, powerful if round trademarky shoulder to cry on.  I am a man, and no one’s crying towel, yet — surely […]
• INTA and the big tent (updated) May 14, 2012
  Revised from Friday’s original post. In the previous INTA post I raised the question of how a significant session discussing a significant topic — the effect of developments in keyword advertising cases on trademark rights on May 9th, the first day of the 2012 Annual Meeting — could have been so seriously skewed.  I promised, as […]
• The holy grail of Internet privacy May 10, 2012
  Originally posted 2006-09-22 11:02:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Pajamas Media reports on two stories claimng that a new Firefox variant (remember, Firefox is open source, so you can roll your own) will allow anonymous browsing — in effect building the functionality of anonymizer software into the application itself. Anonymous browsing isn’t only for […]