Apr
2
Lemley Considers Whether Patent Office Can Be Fixed
Posted by: Irene Calboli | April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
This past Friday was a memorable day for Marquette Intellectual Property & Technolgy Program. Professor Mark A. Lemley, the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and a founding partner of Durie Tangri LLP, delivered the Distinguished Annual Hon. Helen Wilson [...]
Feb
15
The Persistence of Legal Error
Posted by: Bruce E. Boyden | February 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
When I was in my first semester of law school, I was given a short memo assignment involving some principle of Connecticut contract law. I quickly found a case stating the relevant rule of law—every contract needs consideration, or something. But it quoted an earlier case. Being a good historian, I knew I couldn’t just [...]
Dec
27
Did Rock Legend Bob Dylan Steal His Name From Packer’s Legend Bob Dillon?
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | December 27, 2010 | 6 Comments
It is commonly known that Bob Dylan was originally Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota. The legendary singer left Hibbing in 1959 to enroll at the University of Minnesota, and then less than a year later moved to New York where he achieved fame and fortune as a folk and later rock and roll performer. Sometime [...]
Dec
20
New Law Review Comments Cover Social Networking, Wind Farms, Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Open Records Law, and Purchase Money Security Interests
Posted by: Janine Y. Kim | December 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
Now available online, the recently published student comments in the Marquette Law Review cover a wide range of topics. They include Nathan Petrashek’s comment on the impact of online social networking on Fourth Amendment privacy. Since social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace attract both criminals (e.g., sexual predators, identity thieves) and the police who investigate [...]
Nov
1
The Most Important Supreme Court Case in Copyright Law: Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios (1984)
Posted by: Bruce E. Boyden | November 1, 2010 | 4 Comments
[Editors' note: This is the fifth in our series, What Is the Most Important U.S. Supreme Court Case in Your Area of the Law? The first four installments are here, here, here, and here.] There have been several important copyright cases before the Supreme Court since the first, Wheaton v. Peters, in 1834 (over, appropriately [...]
Sep
18
Best of the Blogs: Trivial Pursuits Edition
Posted by: Edward A. Fallone | September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This week’s review of blog postings and news stories of note focuses on subjects that might seem trivial, but that interest me nonetheless. 1. Comic Books My brother and I had an extensive collection of comic books when we were growing up. We even owned two (two!) mint editions of Conan the Barbarian number 1. [...]
Jun
16
“Rah-Rah-Ah-Ah-Ah, Roma-Roma-Ma-Ma, Gaga, Ooh-La-La”: Persona, Authenticity, and the Right of Publicity Now
Posted by: Kali N. Murray | June 16, 2010 | 4 Comments
Yesterday, I posed the following questions: What is identity? As we define the right, should we only protect a person’s authentic identity (name, likeness, voice, etc.), or do we protect that constructed identity? Are Madonna’s many personas as valid as Janet’s one? These questions of authentic and constructed personas are still very much an issue [...]
Jun
15
“Greta Garbo, and Monroe, Dietrich and DiMaggio”: Persona, Authenticity, and the Right of Publicity Then
Posted by: Kali N. Murray | June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Summer is here and, much to my joy, videos are back! The confluence of Lady Gaga, Glee, OK GO, and You-Tube has reminded us of the great art form of the 1980s, the video, a four- to five-minute presentation of a lip-synched musical song in which dance-choreography was more often than not a crucial element. [...]
Jun
10
Who Owns a Sporting Event in Wisconsin?
Posted by: J. Gordon Hylton | June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The ownership rights to live athletic events has been the subject of much legal controversy since the rise of commercialized spectator sports a century and a half ago. In 1885, the Detroit Wolverines baseball club, then a member of the National League, sued John Deppert ,who owned a barn adjacent to Recreation Field, where the [...]
Jun
6
The Naked Truth About Trademark Licensing
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Irene Calboli has a new paper on SSRN entitled “A Critical Analysis of the Doctrine of Naked Licenses in Trademark Law.” A trademark owner may license others to produce and sell goods bearing his or her mark, but the owner must normally take steps to preserve control over the quality of the goods or the license may be regarded as “naked” and hence invalid. Irene’s [...]
Jun
1
New Issue of IP Law Review Available
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to the staff of the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review for the completion of a new issue. All of the articles are available in pdf here. Outgoing editor-in-chief Laura Steele sends along the following announcement and summary of the issue: On behalf of the staff of the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, I am pleased to [...]
May
31
Anyone Interested in a Faculty Blog T-Shirt?
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | May 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
Look around your home and you are sure to find no shortage of cheap promotional items carrying the logo of one business or another. In fact, I happen to have in front of me right now three pens emblazoned with the names of three different national hotel chains. None of the hotel chains are especially trendy, so it [...]
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