friends, believe me when i tell you this is not a massive speed bump an initial refusal for geographic descriptiveness on the A's application to register their new name is not a big deal & they'll get the registration soon enough & registration is optional anyway

met w/ a delightful 1L today who apologized twice for taking up my time i said this is...literally my job, like this is exactly what i am here to do (& what i enjoy!)

me looking very serious for my npr interview

Professor Alexandra Roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social comments on the Las Vegas Athletics trademark application for Front Office Sports @frontofficesports.bsky.social. @clicatnusl.bsky.social frontofficesports.com/why-the-as-h...

the whole time I’ve been watching shrinking I’ve been thinking about cougartown & then season two they reunite two of the stars is it the same writers?

that awkward time of year when everyone is like "buy girl scout cookies from my kid" & i have to be like "no because your kid is selling caramel delites & i only fw samoas"

my first read of the year was "my husband's wife" by jane corry & it was disappointing i just realized that's because i had meant to read "my husband's wife" by alice feeney 😂

owner of men's wellness brand "Beau D" sues brad pitt's new skincare company "Beau Domaine" for trademark infringement, asserting its name, typography, design aesthetic, & web presence create a likelihood of confusion radaronline.com/p/brad-pitt-...

one does not simply.... trademark bacon

canadian trademark dispute over "sex, drugs, & lobster rolls"--applicant claims her shirts w/ the slogan have become the "unofficial uniform" of the region & the phrase is now widespread because of her use, but others who use the phrase on tees disagree www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

detroit entertainment company responsible for "motor city muscle" music fest w/ muscle cars sues the detroit lions for trade dress infringement over its new alternate uniforms because blue, black, & stripey, i guess 🤨 www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

I feel for anyone having to teach Internet Law these days. It's a mess. When any claim involving third-party content can be framed as impermissible "content shaping" excluded from 230's immunity....wtf is included?? (Thank you @ericgoldman.bsky.social) blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

I am not someone who criticizes tipping culture, I will almost always tip a human well even if they didn’t do much, but I just bought a bra…from a website…in about 12 seconds what is this

ooh google scholar says this is the 100th citation to my article “false influencing,” that’s kinda cool

I have to tell you the truth, when I woke up and saw the headlines I sincerely thought they said “we are going to ruin venezuela”

pilot announced the beginning of the flight will be bumpy and every single member of my family simultaneously handed me their barf bags so that should tell you a little something about how the first flight went 😂😭

“when is your birthday?” “oh it’s precisely at the midpoint of the unnamed expanse of dark days”

IT: all law classrooms switched over to teams as the default beginning 2026; faculty members should conduct themselves accordingly me: ok but if I super hate teams then I can just keep using zoom right

did you guys know on jetblue you can just watch videos of puppies playing for your whole flight

my lyft driver’s name means “appeared,” so that seems good! but apparently it also means “ghost” so that seems less good

my sweet (elderly) puppy has a UTI and hasn’t been eating as much the last few days even tho the meds helped immediately. today she hadn’t eaten at all but she is finally crunching some food while I sit with her & i’m so relieved 🥲

I read 133 books in 2025 📚 💕 i’ll put some of my favs from the year below & if bsky is anything like twitter I’ll look forward to getting dragged for a) listening to audiobooks & calling it reading, b) my taste in literature, & c) posting about books at all

wow I really had my act together this morning huh 😒

it’s 18 degrees (“feels like” 10), my husband’s at work, my kids are making me take them sledding check on me later

i spoke with @wsj about the "total 90" trademark dispute. a small company noticed nike's trademark registration for TOTAL 90 had lapsed, so they registered it & started using it on related goods & then sued nike for infringing it...

I dreamt last night that I was recruited to join an ice hockey team for women lawyers I wasn’t (am not) good & knew I would mostly warm the bench but I was just so thrilled to be on the team

zootopia 2 is about patent law????

actual confusion? www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

sometimes I think about quitting sugar and just assume this is how it would go for me

Today in design patents: D1107216 issued for a tablet. Oddly nothing is disclaimed here. #DesignPatents

fancy chicago restaurant "smyth" sues neihgborhood spot "smyth tavern" inside the smyth tribeca hotel for trademark infringement after 4 years of coexistence & as though it isn't basically the most common surname in all of america ny.eater.com/news/407901/...

lexi love trademark dispute hits a little close to home for me love, lex news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/drag-...

with a turtle for a client you'll never feel rushed 🐢

are you a @northeastern undergrad or (non-law) grad student looking for a fun spring elective? check out #MakeYourMark (INAM 5240), my @nu_camd class on trademark, advertising, & endorsement in creative industries course description & some sample student evals below:

making this breaking news update 50% about the status of the suspect in the brown shooting & 50% about how we talk funny here in new england was quite a choice

my husband & I are the same meyers-briggs type, is that common or unusual?

after i posted this @theverge.com reached out about the petition to cancel the twitter marks so now we *are* talking about residual goodwill! www.theverge.com/report/84199...

more importantly, why aren't we talking about residual goodwill if another platform using "twitter" creates a likelihood of confusion because of lingering association with x, that can be enough to enjoin its use even if x has no intent to resume use

the twitter bird is named larry bird!?! that seems like a whole separate issue!

signing your kids up for hiphop is great because they come home from school like "hey mom can you play 'it takes two' by rob base?" "hey mom want to see my dance to 'it's goin' down' by yung joc?"

we are about to start seeing a lot of “chatgpt told me to” defenses in criminal & civil litigation if we aren’t already

I got a phishing email yesterday that said it was a student complaint and I was like “oh no!!” except it was from harvard and I do not teach at harvard you’d have to be really mad at me to file a formal complaint about me all the way in cambridge

doing an #AMA tomorrow for northeastern—ask me anything about trademarks, false advertising, IP, law teaching, drinking iced coffee in the winter, or whatever else is on your mind! U/NGNresearch time: 3-430pm ET

Likely to confuse? www.law360.com/ip/articles/... CC: @lexlanham.bsky.social

we are on a zoom with astronaut jonny kim in space & he is currently explaining all the bathroom stuff 💫

ttab says DANKE and MERCI can coexist as trademarks for chocolate--even though consumers will translate both to "thank you" under the doctrine of foreign equivalents & the goods are the same, the marks are conceptually weak & different in sight & sound www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/sa...

chalk one up for shabbat amirite

my kid, opening mail: ugh this card is so chrismassy, like with bible quotes and stuff me: really, who sent it to us? me: …oh

i chatted with @fos about high schools borrowing names, logos, mascots, & other trademarks from professional & college sports teams, the benefits of licensing, & the risks involved in unlicensed use frontofficesports.com/high-schools...

update on congressional candidate shelby campbell's use of campbell soup's logo to campaign: ms. campbell agreed to a stipulated permanent injunction providing she immediately cease all use of the campbell's soup imagery & designs in connection w/ her campaign, fundraising, & promotional materials