Published for Opposition This Week as a Trademark for Chocolate: "a three-dimensional configuration comprising an irregular circular shaped piece of chocolate with a piece missing in the lower left hand corner of the design representing a bite into the chocolate"

morning xo

"Drawing from their own unique challenges and successes, these scholars illuminate what they wished they would have known going into empirical research and the pitfalls to avoid" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

Hello friends. Are there any workshops or conferences devoted to statutory interpretation?

One problem of mainstream legal journalism is treating constitutional subversions as horserace political coverage. I don't know how to fix it, other than to urge news organizations to ... not do that.

For my Copyright students: there's a James Turrell at Art Basel this year!! Take a break from exam studying and check it out.

“Giftmas”

Trademark question of the day, Dessa edition

"This case involves an alleged abuse of Amazon’s system to keep out legitimate competitors. Amazon is so big it can help other, smaller would-be monopolists!" - @rtushnet.bsky.social

can confirm the secret sauce is just going to a lot of boring meetings

Published for Opposition This Week as a Trademark for Tortillas: "a three-dimensional configuration of product packaging in the form of a product point-of-sale display, which is in the shape of a food cart . . . "

breathe #artadventcalendar

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

More red and green today.

On Remand, TTAB Again Denies Petition to Cancel BABIE'S MAGIC TEA Registration: Confusion Unlikely with BABY MAGIC for Skincare Products thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-r...

It’s a thing: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2544/

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Friends, I am so delighted to share that Version 2 of our FREE patent casebook is now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Application to register an elephant-shaped shoe as a trademark for footwear tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

Fellow law profs: Who would you say are the leading Rule 11 scholars?

A famous guy I was a fan of sent an email during the pandemic just being like "hey I like your show, great job" and it meant a ton to me. So ever since I've tried to reach out whenever I really like something and just tell the people who made it "I really like this, thanks for making it!"

Judge Behm: "LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11" 🤖😵 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Good case study for the 2nd edition of my book "The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property"

Earlier this semester my students asked me to define neoliberalism and

wait. VELCRO is a portmanteau of velvet + crochet?!? 🤯 waynedalenews.com/2025/03/what...

An interactive facemask that changes from a smile to a frown when people get too close. US Patent 12484643

This 100% applies to legal writing.

So basically substacks are the new blog? taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/12/03/t...

"the profile of a frog with antlers" published for opposition this week in the Trademark Official Gazette . . .

Published for opposition this week as a trademark for shirts: "a repeating pattern comprised of overlapping paper bags with cut-outs for eyes. The repeating pattern appears over the entire surface of the goods" tmog.uspto.gov#issueDate=20...

Evergreen:

"In this nine-year-old proceeding, the Board denied Smartling, Inc.'s petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark EASYLING (standard characters) for translation software, finding confusion unlikely with the registered and common law mark SMARTLING for overlapping goods"

TTABlog Test: Is "MUSIC.AI" Merely Descriptive of Music Production Software? thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttab...

Does anyone out there have experience constructing and conducting academic consumer surveys? I'd love to hear what you think about the methodology and reliability of this survey: a-capp.msu.edu/wp-content/u...

Good morning

Welp. I came across my first absolutely hallucinated “case” where it wasn’t checked (and wouldn’t even need to be shepardized) because it “cites” to a Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the year 1944. Help me I can’t law anymore

uneasy lies the head that wears a coffee cup

Application to register two rounded rectangle designs each with the top portion in the color pink above the bottom portion in colors white and grey with a centered stripe in the color black that runs vertically with an angle as a trademark for hair clips

Let the brand collab/additional monetization begin

Allium plant named 'All The Buzz' US #PlantPatent 37,117 (granted today) The variety was the result of self-pollination of a variety named 'Millenium' (unpatented).

Today in design patents: D1103638 issued for an armchair. It is rare to see color claims in furniture, so I had to post it. #DesignPatents