TennesseeTicket.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
On May 20, 2008, Democratic candidate for Sheriff of Hamilton County Greg Beck spoke to donors and supporters at Bessie Smith Hall in downtown Chattanooga....
TennesseeTicket.com (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
The special election to name a new Sheriff of Hamilton County is in full swing. An estimated forty to fifty supporters and volunteers are gathered at the Bessie Smith Hall in downtown Chattanooga for a reception to raise funds for County Commissioner Greg Beck, who is the Democratic nominee. Beck's campaign manager, Pam Ladd, is upbeat about her candidate's chances. She cites the...
Internet Cases (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Ed. note: This is a guest post by Greg Beck, an attorney at Public Citizen in Washington, DC. Greg works on a variety of issues at Public Citizen, mostly involving Internet free speech, anonymity, and intellectual property. He was lead counsel for Mark Nickolas in his challenge to Kentucky’s ban on blogs. [More info...] Political blogger [...]
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
We already covered the Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins summary judgment decision, and linked to commentators Greg Beck, Bill Patry, Rebecca Tushnet, Eric Goldman and Jason Lee Miller. But it’s positively nerve-wracking reading the commentary of someone like Evan Brown!
CL&P Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
by Greg Beck Cross-posted from Citizen Vox The Supreme Court yesterday issued an important decision involving patents that, although technical in nature, may end up becoming an important victory for consumers. In recent years, companies have increasingly attempted to use...
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Greg Beck reports about a UDRP decision regarding a complaint filed by California’s Metrolink system over the domain name Metrolinkrider.com, a gripe site dedicated to… California’s Metrolink system: Noting a split in past decisions on the issue, the panel held that noncommercial use of a trademark in a domain name for purposes of comment or criticism [...]
CL&P Blog (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
by Greg Beck Robert Arkow runs a website at the domain names metrolinkrider.com and metrolinksucks.com (no longer active) where riders and employees of Metrolink, the Southern California commuter rail system, share their gripes about services and fares. Metrolink filed a...
CL&P Blog (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
by Greg Beck Trademark law was designed to protect consumers from being fooled by products that are passed off as something they are not. Too often, however, it is invoked by companies not to protect consumers, but to interfere with...
CL&P Blog (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
by Greg Beck Cross-posted from Citizen Vox When Seattle resident Tim Vernor put a used copy of software for sale on eBay, the software's maker, Autodesk, demanded that eBay cancel the listing. Although Vernor was selling an authentic, original copy...
The Patry Copyright Blog (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
On Tuesday, Judge Richard Jones of the U.S. District Court in Seattle handed down an opinion in Timothy Vernor v. Autodesk , Inc. , handing Vernor victory in an important exposition of the first sale doctrine. (H.T. and congrats to Greg Beck). The case also illustrates why notice and notice is a better system for safe harbor regimes than the U.S. notice and take down approach USTR is...
