Chicago IP Attorney & Lawyer : R. David Donoghue : Chicago IP Litigation Blog

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I have several smaller IP-related items today, none of which warranted a single post:

• The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday that the Patent Reform Act (S. 1145) will likely not reach the Senate floor -- click here for the story.  It was widely reported throughout the first quarter that the bill was expected to be brought to the full Senate by March or April of this year.  The WSJ reported that the Act's move out of the Judiciary Committee stalled because of a stalemate over the Act's controversial damages provision.
  
• Virtually Blind hosts a Blawg Review #156 focused on, no surprise, all thinks virtual and Second Life.
  
• The John Marshall Law School is hosting a free presentation by Southern Methodist University Law School Professor Shubha Ghosh tited IP as CP:  Competition Policy Norms in Intellectual Property Law.  Click here for registration information.
  
• The final edition of the 2008 Chicago IP Colloquium is this afternoon from 4:10 - 5:50 pm.  The presentation will be by Professor Mark McKenna of the Saint Louis University School of Law about his paper Testing Modern Trademark Law's Theory of Harm.  It looks like it will be another excellent IP discussion.
  
• The Lewis & Clark Law School has a new podcast up with Chicago-Kent College of Law's Associate Dean and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law Graeme B. Dinwoodie. Professor Dinwoodie speaks about developing trademark defenses.

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Congress enacted the Trademark Dilution Revision Act (the "TDRA") about one year ago in an effort to resolve numerous open trademark issue.*  Many believe that the TDRA has opened more questions than it answered.  The University of Michigan Law Review's First Impressions blog recently addressed those issues with a series of articles:

• Dilution's (Still) Uncertain Future
  Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law
  Mark Janis, University of Iowa College of Law
  Looking at the litigation history of trademark dilution.

• What is Dilution, Anyway?
  Stacey Dogan, Northeastern University School of Law
  Considering the underlying meaning of dilution.

• The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006: A Welcome — and Needed — Change
  Dale Cendali & Bonnie Schriefer, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
  Explaining why the TDRA clarifies and strengthens First Amendment protections.

• The Dilution Solution: Populating the Trademark A-list
  Scott Wilcox, University of Michigan Law School
  Looking at the court as arbiters of fame.

*  For more on the TDRA, click here for the Blog's archives and click here for the Seattle Trademark Lawyer’s coverage of the TDRA's first anniversary.

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