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Case of the Day: H-D Michigan v. Hellenic Duty Free Shops
The case of the day is H-D Michigan v. Hellenic Duty Free Shops (7th Cir. 2012). We first saw this trademark licensing dispute on September 27, 2011, when the question was whether the judge could extend a temporary restraining order past the ordinarily permitted time in order to allow the plaintiff, H-D Michigan LLC, a……
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Belfast Project: Dolours Price Contradicts Ed Moloney?
An anonymous reader has brought to my attention a new article from The Telegraph. The article asserts that Dolours Price has recently given a series of interviews in which she said that she had told the Belfast Project interviewer (Anthony McIntyre, I think) that Gerry Adams, now the president of Sinn Féin, was her commanding……
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The Hague Service Convention, Default Judgments, and Deemed Service under German Law
IJA Brigade member Peter Bert has a very interesting post today on the Hague Service Convention under German law. In a series of new cases, the Bundesgerichtshof has held that only the initial document, not later documents, must be served in accordance with the Convention. This view is in accord with the the view of……
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Breaking: Belfast Project Stay Denied
The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has denied the motion of Anthony McIntyre and Ed Moloney to stay the issuance of the mandate. Moloney & McIntyre’s motion followed their defeat in an appeal aimed at reversing the District Court’s order requiring Boston College to turn over some of the Belfast Project interview materials……
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Case of the Day: Chanel, Inc. v. Acheterchanel.com
The case of the day is Chanel, Inc. v. Acheterchanel.com (S.D. Fla. 2012). Chanel, the well-known perfumer, sued Acheterchanel.com and unnamed defendants for tradmark infringement, false designation of origin, cyber-squatting, and unfair competition on account of knock-offs allegedly sold on various websites. Chanel obtained the WHOIS domain registration data for each of the websites at……