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18 Jan 2012, 3:57 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Jenzabar, a Boston-based educational software company run by the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, continues in its efforts to abuse trademark law to punish the makers of a documentary film that shows one of the company's founders making brash statements as a student, hoping for a bloodbath that would spur a popular uprising in China, that she has since come to regret. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 7:12 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Twelve days ago, I posted comments here about a Jones Day lawsuit claiming that its trademark is infringed and diluted by mention of its name in headlines of articles on the BlockShopper web site, www.blockshopper.com, and by links to the Jones Day web site. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 2:38 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Late last week, lawyers for Jones Day filed a stipulation of dismissal of its trademark claims against the real-estate website Blockshopper. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 3:46 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I have blogged before about a suit brought by "Vision Media Television," against the consumer-complaint website 800Notes.com, for allowing the posting of messages that criticize Vision Media's misleading telemarketing claims. [read post]
5 May 2022, 2:20 pm
Some years ago, Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) and I wrote extensively about "Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages taken down or deindexed. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 11:23 am
by Paul Alan LevyIn a sign of interest in the broader policy ramifications of the appeal of the “hot news” ruling that forbade flyonthewall.com from providing prompt reports on investment recommendations, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has invited counsel for amici curiae supporting each side, as well as one amicus supporting neither party, to participate in the oral arguments on Friday. [read post]
18 May 2012, 8:30 am
Republished by Blog Post PromoterPublic Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy reports: A few weeks ago, I commented on the efforts of mega law firm Jones Day to abuse trademark law to suppress articles it didn’t like on a real estate transactions web site, BlockShopper.com. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 9:35 am
Robert Levy, center, and Alan Gura, right, June 26, 2008. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 6:39 am
by Paul Alan LevyNorth Face has sued a company called “South Butt,” whose slogan “Never Stop Relaxing” is a deliberate poke at the fashionable outdoors clothing company's "never stop exploring. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 8:52 pm
by Paul Alan LevyLast year I expressed concern in this space that the federal courts seemed to be responding to the RECAP the Law project -- which is designed to build up a database of federal court records that would be available free of charge -- by using scare tactics to discourage participation. [read post]
14 May 2014, 9:15 pm
Department of Health and Human Services [Ken at Popehat; Paul Alan Levy (reminding that "the government itself cannot be defamed")] Down the same alley: when the mayor of Peoria seized on a misdemeanor law banning “impersonating a public official” as grounds for sending police after a clearly satirical Twitter account, he bit off more than he might be able to chew [Ars Technica, earlier] Tweet Tags: bloggers and the law, libel slander and defamation,… [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 7:14 am
This comes from the mouths of Public Citizen and Paul Alan Levy. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 9:08 pm
Australia: after talk displeasing to authorities, popular radio host ordered to undergo “factual accuracy training” [Sydney Morning Herald] Jenzabar loses an appeal against documentary filmmaker [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P; earlier here, etc.] “A Few Words On Reddit, Gawker, and Anonymity” [Popehat] Canada: “Federal Court Upholds Hate Speech Provisions in the Canadian Human Rights Act” [Yosie Saint-Cyr, Slaw] “Canadian Government… [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 5:30 am
“Vision Media Suit Over Criticism on 800Notes Dismissed” [Paul Alan Levy, Consumer Law & Policy, more; earlier here and here] “In Search Of a Definition for the term ‘Patent Troll’” [Gene Quinn, IP Watchdog] U.K.: “The end of ‘have-a-go’ litigation? [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 10:28 am
by Paul Alan LevyVideo Professor, notorious for filing lawsuits against message boards and message board posters to suppress criticisms of its sales practices, and for filing spurious trademark actions to prevent effective competition, is apparently teetering on the edge itself. [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 8:12 pm
Paul Alan Levy has the pleadings here. [read post]
24 May 2016, 5:07 am
Paul Alan Levy respondsto a C&D against a candidate for local government who is being threatened with claims of trademark infringement for using the city’s logo on his campaign materials. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 5:09 am
David Meyer-Lindenberg crosses Chairman of the Board of Cato Institute, Robert Levy. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 7:09 am
Republished by Blog Post PromoterPaul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking company against an effort by a Massachusetts software company to use trademark litigation to punish the filmmakers for the portrayal of one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen square protests. . . . [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 7:41 am
Related: “Lessons from the Texas Downloading Dismissal – Why Due Process Matters” [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P] Tags: movies film and videos, RIAA and file sharing Related posts The New Napster? [read post]
