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emerging tech and trademark lawyer, banjo guy, cyclist, dad. meme enjoyer. likely on a twitter break

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Joined November 2010
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Me logging off Twitter
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if you log out of twitter, and click a link through to someone's twitter timeline, it will show their tweets sorted by number of likes. Not sure if this is a bug, but I like it.
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if i'm clicking a random persons timeline, i'd like to see their best tweets, not their most recent tweets.
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me enforcing trademarks
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Should you expand your soap brand into chocolate? No. no you should not.
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Prince in the style of a Ringgold quilt
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not sure the AI really knows Ringgold's style here.
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The Supreme Court has never used the word ORTHOGONAL and didn't even know what that word meant as of 2010. volokh.com/2010/01/11/orthog… But they finally ORTHOGONALed in today's Warhol v. Goldsmith opinion.
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"Orange Prince crops, flattens, traces, and colors the photo but otherwise does not alter it." i mean, that is a good amount of altering! supremecourt.gov/opinions/22… warhol v. goldsmith copyright opinion
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so many regretted user minutes
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The 3 in 1 dongle is a very good, but not perfect, gadget. 8/10. would buy again. lightning, USB-C, MicroUSB amazon.com/Anker-Powerline-L…
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The trade dress protection for restaurant decor in Two Pesos was neither product design nor product packaging, but a secret third thing. scholar.google.com/scholar_c…
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scalia started the "secret third thing" meme with this March 2000 trademark opinion
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fun: phish registered the trademark for wearing this donut dress for live musical performances
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Phish also registered this donut shirt for "T-shirts as a secondary source indicator of entertainment services" in class 25. What does that mean? @TimberlakeLaw @lexlanham tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=8…
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some strong trademark 2F evidence (of brand recognition):
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I know a lot of you wanted a technical breakdown of this meme so here it is! I don't think you will find this level of detail anywhere else so keep reading if you don't want to miss out.
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