Fyi I started tearing up when he did this.

i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you

I got my birthday ®️ rug today! (The tufting studio had to finish it with glue and put a backing on it). Isn't it perfect? I'm so excited to put it in my office at school!

In case you were wondering, yes, a Buc-ee's mascot puppet serves as an EXCELLENT stand-in for the fox in a dramatic reenactment of the events leading to Pierson v. Post. (my students had a LOT of fun acting this out with the class lol - so many people wanted to be the fox!)

This is so scary in multiple ways.

Uncensored Thoughts: No one has written a legal article about the Trademark ID Manual before and it has been so annoying and complicated to research and I want to get this thing off my laptop so badly so HELP ME GOD. Translation: "This article fills an existing gap in the trademark literature."

you think this is about professors but it's actually about zelle

🔥🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸🔥 Minnesotans showed up! ❤️ IF U STAND WITH MINNESOTA AND WANT ICE OUT!!!!!

I spoke with WIRED about the risks online age verification present, especially under the threat of an administration that will do anything in their power to surveil, oppress, and kill us. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Chewy was having a sale where if you bought so much $ X of things, they'd give you a gift card for $ Y so I bought a couple bags of cat litter that I can just stockpile and use for months. This was how they delivered the boxes. Like the funniest stacking choice they could have made. 😂😂

We're chasing the Northern Lights tonight out to Mount St. Helens! We're starting off with a dinner stop in Kalama at our first McMenamins. Fingers crossed for our Aurora luck tonight.

That is an AMAZING ad. Standing ovation.

Feeling the need to engage in about 10x more libertine expressive conduct now, just for free speech's sake.

Law professor friends: what's your best tip for prepping classes for the first time? I'm doing pretty well so far (considering I've never had any actual training in this) but i'm trying to step back and evaluate my approach to see if there are better, more efficient ways. (pics for attention)

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

Today, I'm 38! And apparently unable to focus a camera properly at an airport at 6:40 am.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Where did you get this photo of me

Rachel Dickson on the state of the USPTO’s Trademark Office over the past year(s).

Can we talk about how satisfying it was to talk about trademark law in a room called "Commerce??" I had so much fun talking about trademarks and art with my brilliant co-panelists yesterday!

We are not Exxon. We are not Chevron. We do not consent to blood and war for oil.

wild to see every news outlet use the term "capture" to describe what happened. we're not at war with venezuela! this is *objectively* an illegal kidnapping of a sovereign country's leader

Just heard what sounded like a friggin cannon go off in our neighborhood? Assuming it's a firework. Anyway, it is 7 PM HERE, IT WILL NOT BE 2026 FOR 5 HOURS, plz chill.

Releasing a 255-page transcript on New Year’s Eve isn’t transparency, it’s an attempt to bury accountability while people are distracted. Read it. Share it. Text it to your family, friends, and neighbors. Truth doesn’t disappear just because powerful people want it buried.

Today, I'm going in depth through emails sent to and from Trademark ID Manual suggestions inbox from 11/2023-11/2024 which I FOIAed earlier this year. Here's one of my favorites : "placing an inked design WTF on a rock" ...Seems like a bit of a limited business concept to me, but I'm here for it!

do the journalists who were being shitty about masking the other day want to comment or

We need to get back to haunting selfish rich business owners until they treat their employees better.

You know, it's a wonderful life really is like a twilight zone episode. Tis very strange.

Okay, I am so entertained by this. What Pokemon name do we think would be best for a baby girl? I'm scrolling through options now and have texted my pokemon experts (my two nieces) haha.

Of course they are — good luck putting the cat back in the bag, Bari. All you’re doing is guaranteeing more people will see it. #CBSNewsmax

This is so infuriating. Regardless of her views, the student straight up did not do the assignment as given, and was given the grade she deserved.

Barbara Streisand effect about to get a rebrand as the Bari Weiss effect

Fair use hypo of the day: is reproducing and distributing an unauthorized copy of the 60 Mins CECOT segment transformative if the purpose is to show the public that Bari Weiss is full of [redacted] and a lousy human being? Discuss #copyright

Assuming this site is correct, “moxie” shows up in non-English languages. indifferentlanguages.in/word/english...

My husband and I noticed a few interesting IP things while researching the meaning of the word "klaxon" the other day! Klaxon was originally a trademark owned by The Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Company for patented signal horns; its use dates back to 1908. patents.google.com/patent/US923...

This cartoon both raises new fears and also a lot of laughter. I love that the recommendations are like "if you can't flush the rat at first, try giving it a bubble bath with dish soap."

"how have we never noticed this beer hall in the airport before? There's a giant sign that says 'beer hall' right there." Bartender, overhearing: "ah, see, this bar only shows up once every three years." "ah, so it's Beergadoon." B: "yes, exactly." /We nod at each other, in musical theater nerd/

There's a tree near our house that's so fancy that it has a plaque and a special lower fence so people can see it better. Oh and for some reason this same fence has a crennelated corner!! So it's like a wooden castle! It's amazing. (And yes, I have new fence goals now)

It's really funny when you email HR and get an email back from someone whose name simply shows up as "Human." Are we humannnnn or are we resourccesssss? My paycheck is vital, My taxes are cold And I'm on my knees, Lookin' for the PSLF certifier Are we human Or are we resourcesss?

I'm at least an 17. I might be a 18, if we count "sitting on a friend's waterbed" as "using." Also - how are we defining "AOL account"? I didn't have an AOL email address, but I definitely had AIM. Also later I /did/ work for AOL sooo. No walkman, but I did have a generic portable tape player.

Hegseth repeatedly misled the public about this strike. The boat was headed for Suriname, not the U.S. It wasn't carrying fentanyl. The survivors didn't "radio for backup." This strike was illegal, and Hegseth is trying to cover up what happened by refusing to release video.

Trump has pardoned 17 drug dealers and nearly 1600 people who attacked Congress on January 6, 2021.

Behold my new favorite thing. This is actually one of the more normal things I've found on Facebook marketplace in Vancouver/Portland. Shit gets REAL WEIRD HERE, y'all. (It gives me so much joy).

Perhaps the brand collaborations are getting a bit out of hand when we have Dubble Bubble and Junior Mints flavored dog bone toys?

A former student of mine got TM and ©️ tattoos on his fingers earlier this year. I've been joking about getting a ®️ tattoo for years now; should I finally do it? If so, where do we think the best superscript part of the body is? Right shoulder? Back of the neck? Behind the right ear?

I found these earrings for sale today. They're super cute, and they clearly tried to avoid trademarks by only using generic terms. However, your average US consumer would recognize this label design as a Heinz source indicator. Heinz has TM regs for these, and their use of them dates back to 1893.