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Trademarks! Trademarks! Trademarks! Assistant Professor, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law Board Certified Specialist in Trademark Law https://timberlakelaw.tumblr.com/ https://law.unh.edu/person/ed-timberlake-0 https://clarity.fm/edtimberlake
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"The Board noted the CAFC'S holding that "the Board can remove the mark’s incontestability status," and that's what the Board did. That's all the Board did."

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#LegalWriting

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New swag from @eff.org. #FixCopyright

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What happens when you cross Bottega and Longchamp ...

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This Moche warrior duck 🦆 continues to be my inspo for the next 4 weeks of my life. Image via @gettymuseum.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/C8m43WKM6M...

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If you are in the triangle may I suggest @indyweek.bsky.social at the Press Club level and a @theassemblync.bsky.social subscription.

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Here's a new article, "First Ideas," forthcoming in Georgetown Law Journal, about understanding the hold that the idea of "first" has over intellectual property laws. Comments are very welcome! 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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You are free to write about freedom but do not write about anything else.

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Application to register "top panel above a bottom panel with a circular design between the two panels" published for opposition this week as a trademark (used since at least 1898) for canned soup tmog.uspto.gov#issueDate=20...

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Y’ALL GREAT NEWS I FOUND THE CONTROLS DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO WORK THIS THING

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Would you agree that the name TRUMP has been associated with manipulative games since at least as early as 1989? tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

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It’s Fair Dealing Week! Join us THIS THURSDAY Feb. 27 to learn more about fair dealing and AI in the academy from legal scholar and copyright and artificial intelligence expert Carys Craig. Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Camellia plant named ‘Gordon's Flash’ (🎶 aaa-ahhh, he'll save every one of us 🎵) US #PlantPatent 36,495 (granted yesterday). The plant was a branch mutation of the unpatented variety ‘Maroon and Gold’.

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The kids are OK

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This is huge! Courts won't give the Trump Administration the benefit of the doubt that they will comply with the law voluntarily because they are saying they won't

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Compare: MEGADETH registered for rock MEGAETH application for crypto tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=7... tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

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Narrator: If people want to know how many law schools ARE offering state con law courses, they should read this article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Don't mess with the non-traditional law students (and the lawyers they become)!

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"Plaintiff further alleges that the procedural protections afforded even to probationary employees . . . requires there to be a legitimate, factually based reason . . . and that it does not suffice for the agency to simply write the words unsatisfactory performance on a termination notice"

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I have a new satire piece out in @mcsweeneys.net: “Let’s Bring Back Traditional Values (No, Not Those Ones)” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/let...

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if you pay me money I can think about a problem of your choice for a long time - kinda like a frontier LLM but using my brain instead

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some thoughts on sovereignty

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PATRIOTs

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Just a sitting President of the United States applying to register the name of the President of the United States as a trademark for, among other things, "creating an on-line virtual environment for exchange of digital collectibles featuring images, sound, videos and texts of Donald J Trump"

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and with that, public awareness of the distinctions between trademark and copyright was set back by another decade.

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i have questions tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

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this isn't too confusing tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

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Today in design patents: D1063408 issued for a fabric with a pattern. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1063520 issued for a coffee maker. #DesignPatents

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Today in design patents: D1064046 issued for sunglasses. #DesignPatents

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I love that so many law schools are now offering state constitutional law courses. As I’ve said before, the overwhelming majority of cases in this country take place in & are resolved by state courts. It’s crucial to educate the next generation of lawyers about state courts and state constitutions.

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When applying to register "a raised repetitive lantern design placed on the goods" it can often be a good idea not to submit evidence suggesting the mark is particularly useful tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

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Today in design patents: D1064163 issued for a slip lawn water slide. #DesignPatents

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