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Trump hotel fails in suit against unionizers

Posted on August 15, 2016 by rtushnet

Trump Ruffin Commercial, LLC v. Local Joint Executive Board Las Vegas, Culinary Workers Union Local 226, No. 15-cv-01984, 2016 WL 4208437 (D. Nev. Aug. 8, 2016) Plaintiff corporations own and operate Trump Hotel Las Vegas. Defendants are labor unions attempting … Continue reading →

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Burr Shot First

Posted on August 15, 2016 by rtushnet

Hamilton/Star Wars crossover: what IP rights, if any, are implicated?  Does it matter whether the ad copy mentions Hamilton? from Blogger http://ift.tt/2aXKG2x

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Cheerios Protein name might be more bluff than buff

Posted on August 15, 2016 by rtushnet

Coe v. General Mills, Inc., No. 15-cv-05112, 2016 WL 4208287 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 10, 2016) Plaintiffs alleged the name “Cheerios Protein” was misleading because it implied that the product is essentially the same as Cheerios, only with added protein. Cheerios … Continue reading →

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IPSC: Closing Plenary Session

Posted on August 13, 2016 by rtushnet

The Nature of Sequential Innovation Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco & Stefan Bechtold How to pick between innovating or borrowing.  “Cinderella Man” is harder to develop than another movie about Rocky.  Risky, as is question about whether to develop another erectile … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session IV

Posted on August 12, 2016 by rtushnet

Empirical Copyright Copyright Misuse: A Taxonomy Ann Bartow Occasionally called copyright misuse; non-US countries call it something else, but trying to taxonomize a certain type of misbehavior.  Some of this is not currently called misuse: using © to try to … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session III

Posted on August 12, 2016 by rtushnet

IP & Privacy Exploring Privacy as Commons Katherine Strandburg & Brett Frischmann Knowledge production/privacy as highly related, not orthogonal/opposed.  Knowledge production framework as a way of doing descriptive empirical case studies of how privacy works in context, which can aid … Continue reading →

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IPSC breakout session 2

Posted on August 11, 2016 by rtushnet

IPSC Breakout Session II: Trademarks, Advertising & Consumers Relying on Reputation Jim Gibson Reputation: what rational consumers would use to decide what products/services to buy. We shouldn’t expect that info to be widely available to consumers w/o some help, and … Continue reading →

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IPSC Breakout Session I

Posted on August 11, 2016 by rtushnet

IPSC Breakout Session I: Copyright: Music & Remixes Assessing France’s Graduated Response Scheme Against Piracy & State Interventionism in the Marketplace for Copyrighted Content Nicholas Jondet Strong philosophical attachment to ©, and economic interests—Universal Music is French-owned.  In practice, low … Continue reading →

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IPSC First Plenary Session

Posted on August 11, 2016 by rtushnet

Scarcity of Attention in a World without IP Jake Linford We impose artificial scarcity so authors can pick up sunk costs. But costs of creation have fallen; perhaps © should be narrowed as a result.  Wrinkle: attention scarcity. Cheaper dissemination … Continue reading →

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failure to speak can be advertising but not presentations to trainers

Posted on August 10, 2016 by rtushnet

WIKA Instrument I, LP v. Ashcroft, Inc., 2015 WL 11199059, No. 13-CV-43 (N.D. Ga. Jul. 10, 2016) WIKA sued Ashcroft, a competing maker of pressure gauges, for false advertising and related claims, and Ashcroft counterclaimed similarly.  WIKA sells the XSEL … Continue reading →

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