As part of their overall proclivity towards rights accretion, IP owners routinely stretch legal doctrines and request overreaching remedies. When IP owners proceed in court without opposition, they sometimes get away with those overreaches. But when a judge calls out…
The litigants are rival washing machine makers–GoPlus and Ningbo Yituo–who source their products from the same OEM, Ningbo Baike Electric Appliance. As a result, “the body patterns of Plaintiffs’ and Defendant’s washing machines are identical due to the shared use…
The plaintiff is octogenarian Barry Glazer, an attorney who has a fascinating history of running TV ads and who sells merch at his website that includes his tagline “Don’t urinate on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” [Note: If…
This blog post addresses a specific genre of Section 230 litigation that I call “predator access” cases. The cases involve a victim with an online profile who connects with a criminal who commits sexual abuse. The victim is often underage,…
Coverage of two TOS formation cases that hit my alerts this week. Walsh v. Dollar Tree Store, Inc., 2025 WL 2939229 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 16, 2025) Dollar Tree required all website visitors to navigate through an interstitial cookie wall before…
I have completed an epic academic administration quest. 🧙♂️🎲 I’m proud to be at an institution where it’s possible to create a course like this, and I’m excited for the students who will benefit from taking this course. The official…
I recently gave oral testimony to a committee of the New Zealand Parliament doing an inquiry into children’s harms online. My testimony was capped at 10 minutes, so I distilled my remarks into my 13 top objections to mandatory online…
[A reminder that I am collecting SAD Scheme standing orders. If you have seen one, can you please email it to me even if you think I might have seen it before? TIA.] In re: “Schedule A” Cases Standing Order…
Over a dozen years ago, I did a whole thing about healthcare providers suing their patients for defamation. I helped build the DoctoredReviews website to advocate against Medical Justice’s weaponization of copyright and contracts to get around Section 230. I…
In the LinkedIn “Insight Tag” cases, Judge Davila issued two opinions where he classified UIs into the Wrap Taxonomy–and left a trail of appeallable issues in his wake. L.W.A. v. LinkedIn Corp., 2025 WL 2780788 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 30, 2025)…