me: oh, 20 states have identified milk as the official state beverage? massachusetts better be cranberry juice or I’ll be so mad me, googling: 😅 🧃 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

my student, an aspiring patent litigator, wants to know if taking fed courts is highly recommended. any thoughts?

the gap has applied to register CASHSOFT as a trademark for clothing but the clothing isn’t made of cashmere. deceptive mark? 🧐 seems like a misdescription consumers would believe & one that’s material to the purchasing decision.

the "buy nothing project" has a trademark registration (actually 6) for BUY NOTHING & persuaded facebook to kill some of the 1,000s of community groups all over the country through which people give away stuff they don't need & get local stuff free sf.gazetteer.co/the-fight-to...

every place your kid goes is out here asking for an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty free, unrestricted right to use your kid's right of publicity for any purpose in the world & expecting you to waive all their rights to enable them to attend one (1) 90-minute birthday party

having an 8 year old is so much like having a jealous boyfriend sometimes (I was not at a party unless mooting two students’ oral arguments to help them prepare for a competition is what you call a party)

please note: gen Z (& many millennials apparently) are not familiar with the word "slinky" as a descriptor for movement or clothing the only have one meaning for slinky. hint: it rolls downstairs alone or in pairs

my students want to know if "arby's" is a descriptive, suggestive, or fanciful trademark for a fast food roast beef chain considering its root is "R.B." for "roast beef" what say you, bsky?

class action suit against OGX alleges slack fill in hair products--"packaging is materially empty"! truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/u...

new in collabs: coke chucks! what do you think?

good @techdirt post on the sabzi kerfuffle & some commentors who don't know about TM law's doctrine of foreign equivalents (ik this is not a US dispute, but here a generic term in a language spoken by a substantial portion of the pop'n is still generic) www.techdirt.com/2025/10/29/u...

I do not need chanukah pajamas but I absolutely do need these socks

how did I forget how much I love lily allen?!?

happy halloween from pooh + hunny 🎃👻🍭

slightly ominous all-caps subject line but ok

petunia products sues anastasia soare for trademark infringement, alleging her book "raising brows: my story of building a billion-dollar beauty empire” creates a likelihood of consumer confusion with petunia's trademarks RAISING BROWS and BILLION DOLLAR BEAUTY for cosmetics

soon-to-be-ex-wife of reggaetón star DADDY YANKEE wants the court recognize the daddy yankee name & trademarks as marital property. she seeks joint management of the brand & a share in future profits associated with the name. allhiphop.com/news/exclusi...

cinnabon sues australian bakery called cinnabuns for trademark infringement owner mike ying said he hadn't heard of cinnabon before & chose the name because he just loves cinnamon pastries so much 😭 colitco.com/cinnabuns-tr...

"viral tiktok brand SpudBros have defended themselves after a public row erupted with another jacket potato business over the use of a similar name" it's THE SPUD FATHER. spudbros thinks their mark is infringed by THE SPUD FATHER. really bros? www.lancs.live/whats-on/foo...

i've seen a lot of headlines about trademark infringement claims but putting 'trademark' in scare quotes is a first for me (if you thought the trademark was "trademark"--nope, it's SABZI) uk.news.yahoo.com/cornwall-del...

it's a no from me, dog

CAMEO, a platform that lets users hire celebrities to appear in short, personalized videos, sues OpenAI for trademark infringement & dilution over its use of "cameo" for its service enabling users to create AI-generated videos featuring celebs' likeness fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

me: how do you spell you’re, as in you are 11: y, o, u…thing that looks like a comma but it isn’t, r, e me: do you know what that punctuation mark is called though 11: comma in the sky?

11 y/o: mom what should I wear to my cross country meet tomorrow, it says there’s a 95% chance of lines. diagonal lines. me: rain? 11: no, I don’t think so, just diagonal lines

does…does bloomingdales want me to purchase a fake belly and wear it to sleep? do they think pregnancy is comfortable

talking to a reporter about smucker's v. TJ tomorrow & not confident i won't accidentally say something weird about this guy

hold up, kim kardashian is playing a lawyer in a new tv show & no one told me?! (ahh yes also suing walmart, amazon, & others for trademark infringement for allegedly selling SKIMS dupes) theblast.com/736261/kim-k...

uhhh gen z has some interesting ideas about "trust" "gen Z often trusts creators more than corporations, so the idea of banking w/ their fav isn’t far-fetched. with his massive budget videos, they might feel [mrbeast] is actually more trustworthy than traditional institutions"

you've heard of clickwrap now try shackwrap with a side of bacon binding arbitration cheesefries pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/s...

i enjoyed prof. jessica kiser's important & insightful article "tradition is a trap" (85 @PittLaw review 816 (2024)) so much that i wrote about it in @IReadJotwell, the journal of things we like (lots)! check out my review here: ip.jotwell.com/have-tribes-...

just finished hosting 9 eight-year-old girls for a birthday party & I was somehow not expecting that level of chaos??? I thought when we got to the movie portion of the party they would…sit & watch the movie?? also the screaming

at #mosaicIP and @staceylantagne.bsky.social just said “if we didn’t already have libraries, we could never get them” & everyone in the room went "yeahhhhh" in sad quiet voices

11th annual IP mosaic at suffolk law, “IP & the fabric of nations,” off to an excellent start with panels on international IP & claiming space—pushing the boundaries of IP”

leaf szn 🍁 💕 ☀️

good morning, my 2nd grader has seen some skeletons around that are white this spooky szn & some that are gray, so she wants to know what color HER skeleton is can anyone help with this

me, planning an event about section 230 and writing "230 meeting 130" on my calendar: yeah this seems like it might cause problems later

whoop sues polar for trade dress infringement--but is the design of its fitness tracker functional? garminrumors.com/whoop-sues-p...

good morning! saturday i posted an image from harper's magazine that said people who registered to take the LSAT in september 2024 vs. september 2025 went from 18,811 to 32,170, citing LSAC the actual LSAC numbers are 18,811 to 23,593--a substantial uptick but far less crazy

ah yes, that timeworn biblical tale of trademark infringement, "goliath vs. the movie theater"

“I do not believe that a compact—w/ any administration—is the right approach to achieve academic excellence, as it would compromise our academic freedom, our ability to govern ourselves, & the principle that federal research funds should be awarded to the best, most promising ideas.” 🌲💚 #dartmouth

BRR, it's cold in here! court denies petition for rehearing in high school dance troupe name trademark infringement suit ("inspire") in single-sentence order www.law360.com/articles/239...

court held temu sufficiently alleged shein launched a “bad-faith campaign” to take down temu posts with sham copyright complaints, defrauded the US copyright office, & infringed trademarks covering the design of temu’s website & mobile app 😳 www.bloomberglaw.com/document/X12...

kind of obsessed with just how janky the janky knockoff labubu's from 7-11 are www.thefashionlaw.com/pop-mart-rai...

class action alleges florida natural orange juice misleadingly implies products are made in the USA w/ phrase “owned by florida farmers” next to an american flag on packaging when they actually contain a blend of juices from mexico & brazil truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/u...

i'm at @nusl.bsky.social to participate in an alumni weekend event & it's lovely to see all these loyal alums who chose to spend their saturday morning back in a law school classroom bonding, reminiscing, & cracking palsgraf jokes

brands don't really like when you use their trademarks for your political campaign so maybe best not to laugh off a cease & desist letter so you don't end up blowing your campaign budget defending a federal lawsuit www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...

my colleagues are all intellectuals & activists & my legal scholarship is about, like, kim kardashian & lash serum & sad beige unboxing videos so every time i present my work they're like "wow i...i learned so much! so many...things...i did not know before"

this is actually a very funny tweet to find omw to faculty colloquium, i.e. a room full of people compelled to read & discuss my law review article

which boston globe headline is the most boston of all? an investigation

"smucker's claims that TJ's product unlawfully copies its sandwich’s round shape with crimped edges & imagery of a bitten sandwich revealing its filling." ok but how else do you expect them to demonstrate to consumers what's inside this seems like a basic trope of packaging for foods w/ fillings