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- Space Force v. “Space Force” – a trademark kerfuffle (June 9, 2020)
- “You Really Think You Can Fly That Thing?” On Donald Trump, Independence Day Deepfakes, and the Copyright Defenses of Parody and Satire (May 21, 2020)
- Bait and Switch Advertising in 2020: Is Grubhub violating the Lanham Act? (May 19, 2020)
- Coronavirus: Copyright Law and Revisionist History on the Internet (April 5, 2020)
- Prince spooks YouTube over Copyright Infringement (again) (January 14, 2020)
- That’s Not How Any of This Works! Cultural Phrases and the Failure to Function as a Trademark (December 4, 2019)
- Seeing “Red”: Taylor Swift and the Dueling Copyrights in a Song (November 18, 2019)
- Top 10 Misconceptions about LeBron and Ohio State’s Trademark Filings (September 16, 2019)
- Eye of the Beholder: The differences between “trademark infringement” and “copyright infringement” (July 31, 2019)
- The Shape of Things: Gibson sues Dean Guitars for Trademark Infringement (June 27, 2019)
- Clawing Back Copyrights? (June 4, 2019)
- The Added Burden of Artistry: Copyright Registration as a necessary pre-requisite (May 8, 2019)
- Put Your Name On It! President Trump and IP Ownership (April 5, 2019)
- Someone should petition to cancel the SUPER BOWL® trademark registration (February 4, 2019)
- Pay to Play: Nirvana sues Marc Jacobs over clothing line (January 2, 2019)
- An “Unusual” Publicity Rights Claim (December 19, 2018)
- Be Prepared… to be sued for trademark infringement (November 15, 2018)
- This is not how trademarks work (October 10, 2018)
- Betting on the Coin Flip: Football returns to a new gambling landscape (August 28, 2018)
- No Skipping Steps? The Burdens of Artistry (July 11, 2018)
- Something in the Way: Online Guitar Tabs and Copyright Law (June 5, 2018)
- On Copyright Limits: MLK, Mickey Mouse, and Sonny Bono (April 4, 2018)
- There is no such thing as a “trademark application” (March 19, 2018)
- The Super Bowl of Unauthorized Celebrity Exploitation (February 5, 2018)
- Those *were* the droids I was looking for! Star Wars and its universe of IP rights (December 11, 2017)
- “Trademark” is not a verb (August 7, 2017)
- No, Gene Simmons is not going to get a Trademark Registration for the “Devil Horns” hand gesture. No. (June 15, 2017)
- Deep in the TC Heartland of Texas: Supreme Court Reverses 25 Years of Patent Venue Practice (June 5, 2017)
- President Donald Trump and Intellectual Property: what can he claim as his? (April 20, 2017)
- Run-DMC sues Amazon and Wal-Mart. Trademark infringement is tricky, tricky, tricky. (January 12, 2017)
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