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Trademarks! Trademarks! Trademarks! Assistant Professor, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law Board Certified Specialist in Trademark Law https://timberlakelaw.tumblr.com/ https://law.unh.edu/person/ed-timberlake-0 https://clarity.fm/edtimberlake

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · Nov 21

#trademarks

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2d

A brief summary of everything I have written on RIFs to date. RIFs are insanely complex and procedurally difficult to implement. Most RIFs are challenged on procedural grounds. 1/7

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-pr...

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TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 2d

Apologies! The class 35 refusal of the SCRAP IT logo was a specimen refusal, not Section 2(d).

TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 2d

TTABlog Test: Which One of These Four Section 2(d) Appeals Was Successful?
thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 2d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Anne Ralph @anneralph.bsky.social · 2d

A classic locked-room mystery but it’s about where I, who am the only one here, left my coffee

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 2d

"One lesson is that the history and tradition approach does not meaningfully constrain Justices even in low-political-salience areas like copyright and trademark, outside highly politicized contexts"

- @rtushnet.bsky.social

Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 2d

Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique /
lawlit.blogspot.com/2025/10/tush...

Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique

Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School, is publishing History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique in the ...

lawlit.blogspot.com

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TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 2d

TTABlog Test: Which One of These Four Section 2(d) Appeals Was Successful?
thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

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Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social · 3d

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This whole thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 2d

Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 2d

Gladioli today!

Reddish gladioli in a silver aluminum pitcher on a small iron table.

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David Greer 🇨🇦 @djgreer.bsky.social · 3d

The place I really have to reach is where I must already be.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. Trademark Reg. (Supplemental) No. 5,106,717.

Supplemental register registration for SAFE IP for use in connection with avionics-related hardware and software

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 3d

Morning glories everywhere!

Small pink morning glories in the garden. There are some red cannas in the back against the brick wall.

Morning glories climbing the brick wall in the courtyard.

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TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 3d

PT Medisafe Files Certiorari Petition Seeking to Overturn CAFC Green Medical Glove Genericness Ruling
thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/pt-m...

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TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 5d

TTABlog Test: Is "TAC-O" Merely Descriptive of Food Seasonings and Cooking-Related Services?
thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 3d

I used to have a mockingbird outside my window who had learned the entire car alarm song, all five movements.

Ersatz Haderach (spooky) @striderhlc.bsky.social · 3d

A couple years ago I lived in a neighborhood with a mockingbird who had learned to imitate the fire alarm low-battery chirp.

That was…. Fun.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 3d

How not to name your marketing agency

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 3d

"I've never seen something like this in federal court" is a sentence I find myself saying over and over these days.

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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 3d

jawnt for a transit benefits platform: descriptive or suggestive or fanciful?

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 3d

Your IP issue-spotter of the day:

Sign for the ESPRESSO AND MILK (tm) coffee bar

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 3d

D1,057,821 - issued in January for a design for an "an inflatable axolotl costume." #DesignPatents

kind of like the frog costume, but an axolotl

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 4d

I just heard someone on MSNBC say, "Hold on to your horses." Now, I've heard, "Hold on to your hats" and "Hold your horses." But "Hold on to your horses"?

a white horse with a black bridle is standing in front of a tree and says `` what did you say ? ''

Alt: A white horse turns around and asks, "What did you say?"

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 4d

perhaps hunky butlers (hereinafter "hunky") should consider including a claim for deprivation of good and valuable alliteration?

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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 4d

hunky butlers, sued* for trademark infringement because it called its employees "butlers in the buff," argues "butlers in the buff" is generic for semi-clothed butler services & should be ineligible for trademark protection

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 4d

Gaze upon this magnificent queen.

A ginormous yellow mum in full bloom. Each yellow flower has an orange center.

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Stacey Lantagne @staceylantagne.bsky.social · 4d

On Monday the Federal Circuit heard cases at Suffolk and I got the opportunity to sit in. It was amazing and it made me wish that everyone got such an opportunity to see what courts (who aren't Judge Judy) and lawyers (who aren't on Suits) do.

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