On July 8, 2015, a United States district court in Alexandra, Virginia upheld a decision by the United States Patent & Trademark Office that the “Redskins” trademarks were too disparaging to be protected by federal registration. The case is Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse. Appellee Amanda Blackhorse is a member of the Navajo people. In 2006, she…
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As you may have already heard, Tamaroff & Tamaroff, attorneys who used to represent BitTorrent defendants in the federal courts in Florida, switched sides earlier this year. They put the brakes on representing Defendants and began representing various Plaintiffs: Good Man Productions, Poplar Oaks Inc., Manny Film LLC, and Plastic the Movie Limited. I hadn’t checked PACER in a…
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Plastic may lack ‘plausibility’ as a film, but, unfortunately, Plastic the Movie lawsuits have just enough plausibility to pass judicial muster in SDFL Earlier this month, for Plaintiff Plastic the Movie Limited, Miami Attorney M. Keith Lipscomb (who also represents Malibu Media, LLC, among others) filed 31 lawsuits in the Southern District of Florida against anonymous “John…
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