Widely hailed as the best jeans in the kingdom of denim by fashionistas everywhere, Lucky Brand jeans fell victim to its own overripe image this week in its trademark infringement case against Miami-based Marcel Fashion Group, which sells the GET LUCKY line of apparel. Following a five day jury trial in the Southern District of [...]
Entries from April 29th, 2010
Who’s Watching You While You’re Watching Godzilla?
April 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Copyright, Popular
In a nation where what we read, view, and do in the privacy of our own home has traditionally been sacrosanct (though admittedly not without legal battles), the people who entertain us now want to usher us into an era where we pay taxes to have the government police what we watch, what we listen [...]
Everybody Loves Barbie
April 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Copyright, Trademark
Barbie is, of course, an American icon known to virtually every man, woman and child in the United States. Even if you are a man (and played with G.I. Joe as a boy), your sisters played with Barbies, or your cousins did, or the girls down the street had tea parties with Barbie in the [...]
Technological Marvels
April 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Arcana, Technology
Of the many technological innovations that have leapt onto the stage of world commerce and actually changed the way people interact with the world around them every day, there are a few that are so startlingly transformative they actually shock the public into a new frame of perception. I have a few personal favorites that [...]
Tags:inventions·patent·Technology
Tattoo Nation
April 6th, 2010 · Comments Off · Internet, Popular
For the last year I’ve come across tattoos in odd places. One day I’m walking to my favorite San Francisco coffee shop — Cafe Amici –and I bump into a group of teenagers. I look up and one of the boys is shaking a little tin cup and has a tattoo of a pink [...]
I am a commercial litigator and intellectual property lawyer in San Francisco. Although my practice encompasses a wide variety of business disputes, I have a particular fondness for, and am prone to wax philosophical on, the subjects of copyright and trademark infringement in music, literature, art, and film.
