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Trademarks! Trademarks! Trademarks! Assistant Professor, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law Board Certified Specialist in Trademark Law https://timberlakelaw.tumblr.com/ https://law.unh.edu/person/ed-timberlake-0 https://clarity.fm/edtimberlake

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · Nov 21

#trademarks

Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 25m

who knows what you might see
published for opposition tomorrow in the
Trademark Official Gazette?

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Kristin Hersh @kristinhersh.bsky.social · 46m

morning xo

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 23h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Majority decision, Star Athletica.

Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 23h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Supreme Court granted cert

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2d

A brief summary of everything I have written on RIFs to date. RIFs are insanely complex and procedurally difficult to implement. Most RIFs are challenged on procedural grounds. 1/7

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-pr...

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TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 3d

Apologies! The class 35 refusal of the SCRAP IT logo was a specimen refusal, not Section 2(d).

TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 3d

TTABlog Test: Which One of These Four Section 2(d) Appeals Was Successful?
thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 3d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Anne Ralph @anneralph.bsky.social · 3d

A classic locked-room mystery but it’s about where I, who am the only one here, left my coffee

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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 3d

"One lesson is that the history and tradition approach does not meaningfully constrain Justices even in low-political-salience areas like copyright and trademark, outside highly politicized contexts"

- @rtushnet.bsky.social

Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 3d

Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique /
lawlit.blogspot.com/2025/10/tush...

Tushnet on History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique

Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School, is publishing History and Tradition in First Amendment Intellectual Property Cases: A Critique in the ...

lawlit.blogspot.com

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TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 3d

TTABlog Test: Which One of These Four Section 2(d) Appeals Was Successful?
thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab...

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Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social · 3d

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This whole thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 3d

Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?