If you've never been to Arlington Cemetery, you might not be able to picture how completely this would ruin it. It would turn the resting place of the nation's dead into an amphitheater with Trump's gaudy self-indulgence on stage.

I was asked to talk about my thoughts on flights and airports today and y'all, I was so ready.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

By my count, there are now over 50 House Democrats, along with two Senate Democrats, who have called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment for his post on Iran. More here: www.axios.com/2026/04/07/t...

Saw this video on youtube. ...Very.....curious about where they're going with these sexy nuns on roller skates representing real covenants and equitable servitudes...

There should be a "never show me the damn Harry Potter trailer" setting on HBO Max, seriously. I will **never** again watch anything by someone so intent on harming trans people.

Love that the manual for my new heating pad includes the "trade mark" on its list of signs and symbols to know, lol.

A student informed me that I look like Wednesday Addams today. I'm not sure I agree, but I AM amused and will take it as a compliment.

Hegseth fired generals who insisted that military leaders who had demonstrated long records of exemplary service deserved promotion. For all the bitching about "DEI," what these failsons and Fox News castoffs all really hate is an actual meritocracy, where people are rewarded for their hard work

Early in my time as a trademark examining attorney at the USPTO (like, ~2/2017), while at a bar with coworkers, my boss told me very seriously that at the end of TEALE (examiner training, I don't even slightly remember what it stood for anymore), everyone had to go get a trademark symbol tattoo.

Happy April Fools Day/16th anniversary of that time two "medical marijuana" IDs were added to the USPTO's Trademark Identification Manual (there also was one added March 4 but that's a less funny story to tell)! (see screenshot of evidence from app. no. 76703884)

Seeing a million people turn out and snake through a large city is very cool, I won’t deny that but my favorite genre of post during these protests is “small town in a red state with the biggest crowd anyone has ever seen”

DOJ included fake cites? Holy shit this is embarrassing. The GOP has absolutely devastated the DOJ.

I was literally just telling my students that student notes can have real impact.

I'm delighted to share that my article Discrimination in the Trademark ID Manual is forthcoming in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, & Entertainment Law Journal, Volume XXXVI (May 2026)! This paper involved a lot of experimental suggesting of IDs to the USPTO

This strikes me as a real “you can't copyright the idea of "hot, sexy, dangerous boys" kind of situation.

I'm at my grandma's house this week helping pack up and clean out some areas (today: the quilt cabin and the outdoor garage, tomorrow: the attic? The world?). Per usual, I found more old pics of my mom that remind me how much I take after her. Truly, there's no doubt that I'm her kid lol.

100%! Even though they themselves are often quite....puffy/fluffy. (Ziggycat picture for proof)

"meet the CATS" but actually they're almost all dogs. Feels like a FALSE ADVERTISING CLAIM to me! www.flydenver.com/about-den/vo...

Waking up at 2:30 am isn't exactly my idea of a good time, but it's worth it to get on the 5 am flight to Denver so I can go spend the day at Meow Wolf before flying off to hang out with my grandmother for the week in Oklahoma! And even at 3:30 am, PDX is consistently well run and pretty!

"tired of boring ties? Replace them with a fish. Why not?" ....well, this is certainly a thing that exists. I would be delighted to see someone I know wear it, but I suspect it's not likely to catch on as a trend.

Let Robert Mueller’s death be a reminder that the Mueller Report concluded: 1. Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win 2. Trump and allies knew Russia was helping them 3. Trump and allies obstructed Mueller’s investigation Trump can and should still be impeached for this.

Okay I need a gym bag so I googled "Portland Oregon gym bag" in hope of finding some cool local bag maker or something and I found this as the first hit? People are SO WEIRD about the PDX airport carpet y'all, I've found so many tributes to it online lol.

U.S. Grade AA butter pun over here.

Someone is trying to register a butter as a trademark for "Squeeze toys." They're almost certainly trying to register this as a logo so they can use the resulting reg for design patent style takedowns on online marketplaces. There's been a HUGE trend in butter themed goods over the last year.

Oh this is a fun topic!

"Huh, I wonder if the specimen in this trademark application might be AI-generated." I feel like I'm spotting some signs. Just a few.

"Most data centers use over 10 million gallons of water annually; some exceed that with usage in the hundreds of millions of gallons per year. Google's ... data center in Iowa uses approximately 980 million gallons of water per year, equivalent to the annual water usage of over 4 million homes."

I have been trying to get a picture of this billboard I drive by every time I'm heading north on I-5 from Salem to Vancouver, and yesterday, thanks to some stopped traffic, I finally got it! Alas, no trademark app filed for this one.

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

Through the wintery mix they fly.

I’ve said it before, but People magazine should get a Pulitzer for its coverage of this administration.

If your cat tries to eat a pansexual pride flag and then a lesbian pride flag, do you think he's trying to come out or nah?

I guess today is the day I'm going to find out how the LinkedIn algorithm feels about direct discussion and descriptions of adult products, lol! Let's find out if anyone can actually see that adult product focused new trademark scam post I just shared or not.

I've been digging into this issue a bit more, and have found several more examples of this phenomenon. I've also found an interesting subcategory of this new style of scam that I'm going to refer to as....the Adult Section. It's time for a little ~~Trademarks After Dark~~~ y'all.

They fucking "double tapped" a school

Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."

Husband John has decided that since we live in the Pacific Northwest now and I work in the Willamette Valley, we should become wine people. So he got a wine subscription. So far, our tastings are going like this. Him: "what do you think of this bottle?" Me: "...yup, that's wine."

Wait, law reviews got back to you?? (I have accepted an offer but man, it was a quiet cycle!)

I've seen one of these! Ningbo Zhenhai Keyda Magnet Co., Ltd v. Minzhi Lin, Docket No. 0:26-cv-60400 (S.D. Fla. Feb 12, 2026). I thought it was a trade dress registration at first but then @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social gently corrected me. The registrant used it to do an Amazon takedown.

This recent thread from @design-law.bsky.social adds to the post I shared earlier about a new scam focusing on registering designs of products AS logo trademarks at the USPTO - seems like those are being used for trademark based takedowns of those /actual products/ online.

and plenty more here www.pinterest.com/timberlakela...

It looks like there’s a new scam running over at the Trademark Office. I’ve found numerous apps to register trademarks which, at first glance, look like configuration marks, but are clearly just design marks which are slapped on a box for unrelated goods. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Just found out that Lawrence Lessig will be coming by my school soon. If I just start sobbing incoherently when I meet him and tell him his work in Creative Commons directly led to me becoming an attorney, do we think that will have a bad effect on my future tenure prospects or nah???

Move to the pacific Northwest, they said. It'll be fun, they said. (You'll never be fully dry again!)

State official absolutely must use the power they have under the Constitution — the power that the framers intended them to have — to prosecute these crimes.

okay, this is funny, though