Owners, Borrowers & Thieves 2.0
"IP ownership, use and enforcement in the 21st centrury."
Author: Geoffery Gerber and Pete Salsich III are partners at Husch Blackwell Sanders based in St. Louis; Dave Rein is a Husch Blackwell partner based in Kansas City, Mo.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Partner
Recent Posts from Owners, Borrowers & Thieves 2.0
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Now For Something Completely Different: Mattel Licenses "Barbie Girl" From Aqua
A commercial that played this Halloween promoting a new line of Barbie Fashionista dolls reminded me of an earlier blog post in which I wrote about some of the legal lessons learned from Barbie. One of those lessons involved the parody…
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A Stunning Confession Potentially Destroys Fairey's Fair Use Defense
Despite depictions in TV shows and the movies, most court cases do not involve dramatic confessions, cover ups and Presidential politics. Of course, most court cases don't involve Stephen Fairey. From pasting the Obey Giant (now his Twitter name)…
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Fraud On The Patent And Trademark Office Isn't What It Used To Be: In re Bose Corp.
With the stroke of a quill pen pulled from their cap or with the tap of a keyboard, the Federal Circuit may have relegated an intensely litigated and debated line of fraud cases to the ancient…
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Michael Jackson: The Music And Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Continues
While on a vacation in Northern Michigan recently, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" started playing in a local tavern. The song seemed out of place in the northern woods, but as I looked around, I could sense that…
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Are You Gambling With Your Copyright By Entering That Photography Contest?
"Winner, winner, chicken dinner!" I'm told that the phrase first started in Las Vegas casinos where you would hear gamblers and dealers yell it out as winners would earn enough from their bets to buy the…
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Judge Posner's Copyright Proposal To Save Newspapers -- A Cosmic Paperboy?
I still turn to newspapers, whether on paper or on the Internet for my primary source of news, but it is no secret that newspapers are fighting for their lives -- not unlike Bruce Willis in…
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Would You Like An OBAMA Cigar? We Think The USPTO Will Say: "No You Can't."
Co-author: Branden Gregory (more on him later) We admit that we love trademarks enough that we can pass time away with our feet propped up while running random searches on the USPTO's database of trademark applications. …
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We Are Now On Twitter!
For those of you who read the last post closely, yes it is true. Owners, Borrowers & Thieves 2.0 has jumped into Twitter and you can now access the posts through Twitter by following me @daverein. Because these…
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A $1.92 Million Win For The Music Industry. Now What?
As I read Ben Sheffner's tweets about the Capital v. Thomas case with interest, I was struck by how quickly the jury issued its decision to award the record companies $1.92 million -- about $1.7 million…
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The Music Industry Will Need To Win More Than Just The Legal Arguments In Capital v. Thomas
They do things differently in Sweden. If there was an RSS feed for all the political news happening in Sweden, I think I would subscribe. I remember in college hearing that Donald Duck beat out several…