@lexlanham

professor of law & media at @nusl & @nu_camd teaching & writing on IP, trademarks, ads, entertainment law, personal brand; faculty director @nuslclic (she/her)

boston
Joined March 2009
oh you SYMPATHIZE, copilot? you also want yourself to go away?
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commode liner co. sues competitor for trade dress infringement, asserting packaging features incl. a 3-flap box, blue-green colors, bicolored packaging surfaces, & images displayed in a 2-by-2 grid court found the TD functional & non-distinctive 🚽🚽 vitallaw.com/news/trademark-…
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love my conversations with pest control me: there was one guy with a million legs pc: show me where you saw the centipede me: also, teeny flies that are easy to crush pc: i will spray your fungal gnats me: there is a hole in the lawn not for bunnies pc: found your mole hole!
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if we learned anything from lululemon suing costco over dupes it's that the primary response to news of this infrngement suit by the public will be people saying "wait, i can get croc dupes for $7 at five below instead of $40 from croc!? on my way!" usaherald.com/crocs-sues-fiv…
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here it is folks, straight from new york criminal law authority megyn kelly: it isn't rape if you're beefy in the arms & legs
Here is Megyn Kelly, telling the world that Jane Doe was lucky she got to be raped by seven men and she should be grateful.
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background checks aren’t important for most jobs, I mean he was only working at ::checks notes:: oh, the CIA
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OUTKAST sues OVRKAST for trademark infrngement, unfair competition, & breach of contract outkast claims the rapper & producer had accepted OVERKXST as his replacement stage name, then delayed the paperwork & proposed 2 previously rejected alternatives allhiphop.com/news/exclusive…
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in comparing similar trademarks we consider sight, sound, & meaning while the two marks are only two letters apart so may be similar in sight, OUTKAST (outcast) & OVRKAST (overcast) are very different in sound & meaning
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adidas sues white fox (a brand my middle schooler enjoys) for trademark infringement over its four-stripe apparel because, you know, adidas owns stripes. just the mere idea of stripes. don't even gesture toward the existence of stripes. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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12 y/o: don’t we have a day off school coming up 8 y/o [confidently] it’s colombian day me: colombian day? 8: yeah to celebrate colombia me [checking calendar] oh wait, indigenous peoples day. did you mean to say columbus day? 8: yes, that’s what I said. colombian day. 🇨🇴
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you know what’s even better than touching grass? these heart leaves I discovered on my walk today 💚 🍃
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the only question i have for outlook copilot is how to make outlook copilot go away & stay away?
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sir pizza in TN files a TRO alleging former licensee who opened king pizza breached agreement, misappropriated trade secrets, & infringed TM w/ similar branding & a menu that is a “near word-for-word recitation" of the 1 created for the franchise location wsmv.com/2026/09/29/tn-pizza…
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revising, i.e. staring at this comment until i lose my mind does "G-d bless the USA" fail to function as a mark for a pillow that has that phrase on it b/c it describes that pillow or is "G-d bless the USA" a *feature* of a pillow that has that phrase on it
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today is kat von D day! & it's almost 130pm in san francisco 👀
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surfside has dropped its trade dress infringement suit (striped can; sunshine) against anheuser-busch over skimmers hard lemonade i was never that impressed by it but i know some disagreed inc.com/lucia-auerbach/surfs…
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small sleepwear co. sues american eagle over use of OVERSLEPT as a trademark for pajamas, alleging AE is using "virtually identical marks, in similar fonts, on the same class of goods, sold to the same consumers, through similar channels of trade" law360.com/articles/2526122/…
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in their motion to dismiss dua lipa's suit over use of her image on tv boxes, samsung argues her face is not a TM, so her infringement claim is weak true, but her false endorsement claim is stronger, & the right of publicity claim strongest of all (jurisdictional issues aside)
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