Category Archives: trademarks

“Ironic”: adjective. Greek origin: Wry amusement. Applies to fat Greek cunts.

August 18, 2008 – 9:50 pm

Geeklawyer has a long running saga of blog posts against the greasy fat fuckwit bully Stelios and his repellent campaign to annex God’s own language: a language that is foreign to him and which is despoilt by its emanation from his flabby salivating bovine lips.
Despite the fact that Geeklawyer has buggered Stelios’ mother, and made […]

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There’s a doings over at the USPTO

July 24, 2007 – 10:12 am

And about frigging time too.
Frank Schilling on his blog reveals that three patent lawyers are suing the US Department of Commerce over their appointment of Margaret Peterlin who is, they say, ‘unqualified’ to be the head of the USPTO.
For geeks like Geeklawyer this sorta matters. US IP policy is a controversial area and its competence […]

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Motorcycle fails to outrun IP lawyer

March 22, 2007 – 4:40 pm

Well thank heavens for IPKat.
At last, after nearly two years moaning about the lack of one, Geeklawyer has a, TADA!!!!, legitimate IP & motorbikes story. It isn’t a scintillating one to non-IP lawyer bikers, but hey WTF, Geeklawyer will take what he can get.

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Apple and Cisco: while I was out …

March 12, 2007 – 6:13 pm

Apple and Crisco swear blind it was all a misunderstanding.

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Apple and Apple settle

February 5, 2007 – 6:03 pm

Apple Core have, it seems, settled with Apple Computers on their trademark dispute. From the outside it looks like Apple Computers got the upper hand: the mood music is that this unfortunate misunderstanding is all finally fully settled and everyone loves each just as they all did all along. Honest.

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Apple iPhone

January 13, 2007 – 7:29 pm

Geeklawyer had been very keen on the idea of this bit of hyped vapourware since he rather likes Apple toys. Or at least most of their toys, the iPod being an overpriced underspecced marketing triumph. The iPhone (version 1) left Geeklawyer a tad underwhelmed: more iPod than iMac. I mean, a smartphone one can’t […]

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Trademark law & grey goods: Playstations

October 23, 2006 – 4:19 pm

Geeklawyer despairs that yet another case on the infringement of trademarks by importing goods from outside the EU has been won by the rights holder. While the rest of the world gets goods largely identical to those given to us, but at half the price charged in the EU, within the EU those rightholders, mostly […]

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Apple iTrademark problems maybe?

September 14, 2006 – 5:52 pm

Apple nearly have a cool new toy out. It’s some sort of wireless router for video. In non-geek speak it’s a set-top box that will allow you to pipe any video or audio files on your computer or iPod to a TV or stereo.
Nice idea: but while Geeklawyer is an Apple fanboy he thinks many […]

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Google and France butt heads again

July 5, 2006 – 9:01 pm

Geeklawyer, having sold his soul to Google to get filthy lucre to finance his sleazy lifestyle, cannot pretend to be entirely non-partisan on the issue of the Adwords which finance him so, er, fulsomely.

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shock news: using someone else’s trademake in a domain name can be infringment

May 25, 2006 – 8:55 am

Geeklawyer has seen a certain amount of confusion about phones4u’s win in the Court of Appeal which he feels obliged to correct, free of charge natch. While it is true that they lost their claim that using […]

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