Difference can find confluence in unique places. Here, former drug traffickers meet Netflix at trademark law. As background, Netflix’s growth in recent years has been impressive, due in part to successful original content like Narcos—a series based on Columbia’s Medellin and Cali drug cartels. Roberto Escobar—Pablo’s brother and ex-assassin/accountant—thought it […]
There is much to admire in a slave who earned freedom through wit and intellect, even if Aesop is only a tradition. I also like him for being a master storyteller with animals as protagonists. The story of the eagle and the cocks teaches one possible consequence of crossing the […]
Sometimes you find fun articles or studies that venture to rank the “most important” innovations, like this recent one, the most impactful invention by state: What?! Utah’s own Lester wire invented the electric traffic light, “letting drivers know when to stop, go, or slow down”?! oh my heck. Move over […]
On Monday, the U.S. supreme court overturned long-established trademark practice with its opinion in Matal v. Tam. The court held that a federal trademark statute prohibiting registration of potentially disparaging trademarks actually violates the first amendment’s free speech clause. The case was initiated by a front man for “the slants”—a […]
