17 years ago I broke off an engagement. flew home & never saw him again. called my dad to pick me up at the airport no questions asked (he did). called the firm I wanted to work at & asked them to reopen the offer I had declined (they did).
met my husband <2 months later…
I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can break off your engagement. You don't have to get married if you know it's not right. Even if you have sent out the invites, bought the dress, planned the ceremony, you can walk away.
Travis Kelce has filed 5 new trademarks:
1. TRAVIS KELCE
2. KILLATRAV
3. ALRIGHT NAH
4. FLIGHT 87
5. KELCE'S KRUNCH
The filings claim that Taylor's boyfriend will use the trademarks to offer pins, posters, bobbleheads, clothing, and even a cereal.
#TravisKelce
#TaylorSwift
is mike richards the next trebek? clearly no. but is he a fan favorite who will do a passable job hosting jeopardy? also no. is he at least a good guy? uhh, turns out no. ok but can we say he won this job fair & square? unfortunately no we cannot say that either
Last week Mike Richards wrote that lawsuits from The Price Is Right didn’t “reflect the reality of who I am.”
I went looking for who he is, talking to current and former colleagues and listening to a podcast he hosted at Price. What I found was troubling.
I loved my ex so even though I was miserable, even though we wanted different things, even though the future we’d have together didn’t seem like one that would make me happy, i thought I couldn’t end it
extremely cheesy but “sometimes love just ain’t enough” was my revelation
my girlfriends threw me an un-bachelorette party that was one of the most fun nights of my life (they’re all professors now so those photos will not be shared)
i am so happy with how my life turned out & proud of 27 year old me for that game-changing decision
ok fine one photo
anyway I’ll just echo the person I QT’d—just because you said yes (or proposed) doesn’t mean you can’t change your mind about one of the biggest decisions of your life
i personally am here to read the briefing in vidal v. elster & research the congressional intent behind lanham act section 2(c) while my toes are painted OPI "color so hot it berns" in preparation for INTA annual meeting but to each her own
"we are not starbucks, we aren't political-- we aren't gonna put stuff on our cups to start conversations. we don't want to engage you in political conversation, we want to get you in & out of our store in seconds. it's donuts & ice cream-- just be happy."
#dunkin
#inta2019
adults, watching the news: wait what's a narwhal exactly
every 5 year old: would you like to borrow one of my 35 narwhal books? or i could draw you a picture, i like to draw at least 3 narwhals a day and 10 on saturdays
sorry but the guy who gets frequent infusions of his own son's blood plasma & the guy who pretends to live on raw meat organs but actually takes a lot of anabolic steroids--both those guys have the same name?
as a trademark law professor i considered sharing an expert take on the twitter/X trademark debacle
but everyone seems to have a great handle on it already:
abandoning famous & extremely valuable marks while continuing to offer the services associated w/ them is quite unwise!
wowwww trump is invited explicitly, repeatedly, and cordially by the moderator and biden to condemn white supremacists and he will not & cannot do it. 😳
#Debates2020
we broke the news to my kid last night that she’ll be attending 1st grade remotely & she pretty much immediately countered by requesting a hamster, & we negotiated her down to 2 fish. it all happened so fast. guess lawyering is in the genes.
2 things going on:
1. blue checks given out for free to certain celebs/big accounts w/o account owner's consent, despite twitter announcing blue checks would only be for paid subscribers
2. blue checks appearing on accounts of dead celebs
any viable causes of action? (1/25)
when you’re so busy blowing your ad budget purchasing competitors’ trademarks as adwords that you forget to purchase your own company’s trademarks as adwords
"for your security, you were logged out"
idk westlaw i'm not that worried about my security
are you afraid if someone happens upon my laptop they'll be unable to resist the urge to start shepardizing cases willy-nilly
i just googled the lawyers from the first trial team i was ever on. the men are now partners at ropes & gray, sidley, maynard cooper gale, & quinn emanuel. the 3 women on the team have left practice 🤔
a few men have jumped in to chastise me, so to clarify: i would not mock a person wishing me a happy YK. i'd simply thank (& perhaps gently educate).
an institutional alumni account with 45k followers can, imo, be held to a different standard, esp. given that account's goals.
in the middle of my 2L year I broke up with my fiancé & my friends threw me an unbachelorette party at a dive bar in new haven with all the classic bach ridiculousness & a cake with a headless groom
anyway I think >50% of the attendees are now tenured professors 👑
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@rollingstone
reports that 95% of NFTs are worth nothing today — “a spectacular crash for assets that reached a trading volume of $17b” in 2021.” around 4 out of every 5 collections remains unsold.
@katiedimartin
planned a 5-person panel on which I was the last speaker (alpha order)—the rest men. 2nd speaker went over by 3 minutes, 3rd went over by 18 minutes while I waved my hands frantically, fourth announced “looks like I’m the last speaker!” & went over by 5. no time left for me 😫
@bronactitley
when i have mentioned to my kids that some families have 2 moms or 2 dads they're always like "uggghhh it's so unfair that i don't get 2 moms, why can't I have 2 moms!?!?" 😆
husband, via text: what does punch down mean
me: criticizing or coming after someone w/ less power or status than you
husband: challah-wise
me: ohhhhh you just... punch the challah. with your fist
I cannot even begin to imagine being a law student rn trying to concentrate on final exams with the supreme court explicitly on the brink of BLOWING UP bodily autonomy, access to healthcare, reproductive freedom, privacy, all the cases built on roe, & stare decisis itself
I want to put a baby in alito. & a baby in gorsuch. thomas. roberts. kavanaugh. mitch mcconnell. donald trump. no big deal, it’s just a little baby, they can give it away after they give birth to it.
common reasons to abandon a trademark:
*we went bankrupt & can't make widgets anymore
*oops, we realized our mark was super racist
*we were sued for infringement & lost or capitulated
*we were bought out/merged
*we poisoned ppl
not:
*a little rebrand for funsies!
This senior professor thinks that a ban on sexualised behaviour between students and staff "would be more or less a ban on life as we know it."
A piece written with deep nostalgia for a time when he used to sleep with his students.
on his podcast today, dave chang of momofuku apologized for the chili crunch trademark debacle & announced that the brand "will no longer enforce the trademark."
please
@nytimes
i'm begging you, call an IP lawyer
we will gladly take your call and tell you the difference between trademark & copyright
anytime
for free
ugh wegmans doesn't want to make my entertainment law cake b/c they think it's copyright infringement. shall i tell them discussing & then eating a frosting version of a people magazine cover is educational fair use?
coach sues gap, inc. for trademark infringement over this old navy t-shirt that says "coach" on it, alleging it creates a likelihood of consumer confusion given coach's registered COACH marks
of course, the thing about "coach" is it's also a generic noun. descriptive fair use?
@sarahhollowell
i stumbled over one of those articles this week and have been looking around at everything in my house with abject horror since reading it
a law student this week shared some advice they received about networking events that icked us both out. the advice was to scan the room & figure out who are the most important people in it, then make it your goal to chat w/ them & skip the B-listers.
nike sues MSCHF over lil nas x "unauthorized satan shoe" for infringement, false designation of origin, & dilution (blurring & tarnishment); allegations of actual confusion backed by social media evidence
(i typed "nike satan" into the bloomberg search bar, so that's fun)
Lady Gaga is being sued by woman involved in stealing her dogs when her dog walker was held at gunpoint.
Despite being connected and charged for the crime, the woman claims Gaga has to pay her the $500K reward she had announced, as she returned the dogs 2 days later.
2) all people are people. all people are worth getting to know. conversations aren't just transactions. focusing on the people you guess to be most important might keep you from meeting your new best friend, mentor, mentee, role model, or other crucial connection.
my new year’s resolution is to be either working or not working at any given time
not that thing where you spend 930-1130pm telling yourself you’re working or about to work but actually neither really working nor really relaxing
to the reply guys who are big mad, i'm still not sure why. relationships end; people break up. most people have many breakups in their lifetime!
if you view marriage as a lifelong commitment, as i do, the trick is to make absolutely certain you pick the right person.
did twitter, in the course of its business, knowingly make false representations as to sponsorship or approval by celebrities like
@stephenking
when it bluechecked them w/o their payment or permission? sounds like a reasonable argument. (4/25)
tonight I was talking to a man for a while & I asked what he did & he explained his investment banking journey in copious, rather exhaustive detail & then he asked “& you, what…what do your children enjoy doing, do they have some activities they do?”
bro. ladies can have jobs.
we need an all-hands.
who do you want there?
the whole legal team. counsel, sweet snacks. counsel, salty snacks. kisses counsel. kitkat counsel. all three interns.
milk, dark, & krackel?!
that’s right. & reese’s division. counsel, cups; counsel, pieces. it’s a hershmergency
I don't know why I find it hilarious that Hershey has in-house counsel separated by whether they handle salty snacks or sweet snacks but I do find it hilarious.
I am so thrilled that superstar trademark law scholar and all-around awesome person
@lexlanham
will be joining the
@NUSL
@Northeastern
faculty this summer! Welcome aboard Alex!
first, a lot of state unfair competition laws contain prohibitions on false endorsement.
colorado, for example, specifies that "a person engages in a deceptive trade practice when, in the course of the person's business, vocation, or occupation, the person...
(2/25)
horrifying advice for a few reasons. 1) if you're judging by appearances, you'll have to use heuristics & stereotypes. we all know what that means so i won't belabor the (sexist, racist) point. we all know what "important lawyers" look like based on appearances only.
can confirm on the record: tenured & promoted!
& i intend to use my security & privilege to advocate for students & agitate for change in legal academia from the inside. ready to raise some hell 😈
#unhLOUD
#blm
#academicmama
most of the value of twitter is in its trademarks: the word marks, logos, etc.
plenty of consumers have negative associations with the brand, yes, but when a mark is a household name even negative goodwill has tremendous value
a student just emailed me from a hospital asking for an extension & promising a doctor's note 😭😭😭 PLEASE GUYS, I DON'T WANT A DOCTOR'S NOTE & I DON'T WANT YOU TO STRESS ABOUT ASSIGNMENTS, ALL I WANT IS YOU TO BE HEALTHY
@svershbow
what if i continue wearing my most hardcore puffy coat but unzip & rezip it repeatedly over the course of my commute, sometimes taking it off altogether & then putting it back on when the wind picks up
federal court of canada orders cannabis retail store budway to pay subway $40k for trademark infringement. court ruled the name & signage were too close to subway's & "mascot in the shape of a sub sandwich filled w/ cannabis leaves & w/ bloodshot eyes" damaged co.’s reputation.
@thesarahkelly
@FNoMTL
in theory I know fake hair exists but my brain has never fully grasped it so I every time I see someone (in a movie, on instagram, irl) I am convinced it’s all their real hair unless told otherwise
@ProfRobAnderson
rob you actually want to put your venmo on the last slide of the deck for every class session. it's a good reminder to students to tip & incentive for you to finish the lecture on time so you get to that last slide!
toddler loses abby. begs for abby every night at bedtime.
parents search house. garage. closets. under furniture. no sign of abby. weeks pass.
new abby arrives in mail. parents unwrap & say “I found abby!”
toddler immediately produces old abby & declares “I HAVE 2 ABBYS!”
@ElieNYC
@JillFilipovic
plus they're into such a random mix. my 3 y/o is like "only chicken dinos or pasta w/ butter. but i will also eat cod, halibut, a bowl of pistachios, & as many mini cucumbers as you will allow."
imagine working in HR or legal & being informed your company has just renamed one of the conference rooms "s3xy"
or being a female employee called in for a meeting in the s3xy room
things are going great
Twitter's X rebrand is underway at its San Francisco headquarters.
The co. is projecting the X logo in the cafeteria and changed conference room names to words and phrases with the letter X in them. Those new names include “eXposure,” “eXult” and “s3Xy."
@robinschaer
this is why my husband and i like to loudly announce each chore as we're doing it. & if he's not home, i just text him to let him know i did a house thing.
3) peer networking is also incredibly rewarding. idk where anyone who was "important" when i was in law school is now but i know where my classmates are: they are firm partners, GCs, professors, government officials, CEOs, politicians, & otherwise crushing it. play the long game.
"you have multiple advanced degrees" i tell myself as i spend all day staring at the healthcare plans offered through my & my spouse's employer while trying & failing to understand & compare them
how do i get my students to stop apologizing to me when they don't understand something? please i just want you to learn stuff i promise i'm not mad! explaining it to you again better is literally my job