Top Intellectual Property Law Blogs - Likely To Cause Confusion

Supperblogger Ron Coleman of Likelihood of ConfusionTM fame reviews here my post of Justia's 50 Top Intellectual Property Law Blogs of all time, found here.

Ron asked what Justia's criteria are for the selection.   The answer is that I am not exactly sure, but that I believe that it is raw, gross traffic.   My post of the 50 Top IP Law Blogs of All Time was taken from the Justia Blawgsearch under the Intellectual Property category, where popularity is measured daily, weekly, monthly and all time.

Ron queries the Patry Copyright Blog's ranking of number 26.   Prof. Patry was an extraordinary, prolific and powerful writer who poured his heart and soul into his blog.   I am happy to see that the database he created endured.   When he deleted his entire blog, I was one of the people who contacted him to protest, he put it back up and it's an important resource.

I would point out that Copywrite, currently ranked at 27 was written by an IP professor who stopped writing for reasons similar to Patry's on 10/14/2008.

Ben Sheffner's Copyrights and Campaigns doesn't show up, I think it should.

The 1709 Blog has a high Alexa rank and I think has been around for a while, it is excellent but does not show up.

If you go through the Justia top ranked IP law blogs list and use the Alexa toolbar, it is clear that some of the IP Law blogs listed there do not currently receive much traffic.

Traffic is not an indicator of quality or real popularity.   Copyright Litigation Blog's most popular pages relate to a Jewish art dealer named Alfred Flechtheim whose collection was stolen by the Nazis and whose stolen artworks now populate the world's museums.   My posts on Alfred Flechtheim here.

Some of the most popular search terms that result in a hit to Copyright Litigation Blog have nothing to do with intellectual property and are clearly from people arriving here in error.

Looking at today's Justia Blawgsearch, Patry's Copyright Blog was at number 9 and Copyright Litigation Blog was at number 34.    Dead blogs may contain more wisdom than live ones.   Part of the reason that I chose blogging is that unlike print media, I could set my own deadlines and choose to blog only when I felt like it.   This blog's sporadic nature reflects my busy practice and my seasonal interest in updating my Copyright Litigation Handbook.

In the end, Ron Coleman is correct, any top 50 ranking based on ranking may lead to a Likelihood of Confusion.


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Top 50 Intellectual Property Law Blogs of All Time - Source Justia Blawgsearch

According to Justia's Blawgsearch, these are the top 50 Intellectual Property Law Blogs of all time

1.  IP Thinktank
2. IPKat
3. Patent Docs
4. Patently-O
5. IPBiz
6. The Trademark Blog
7. Recording Industry v. The People
8.  Technology & Marketing Law Blog
9. 43(B)log
10. Philip Brooks Patent Infringement Blog
11. University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
12.  Chicago IP Litigation Blog
13.  Two Seventy-One Patent Blog
14.  Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice Blog
15.  The TTABlog
16. Illinois Business Law Society
17. Seattle Trademark Lawyer
18. Orange Book Blog
19.  Plagiarism Today
20.  Patent Baristas
21.  Erik J. Heels
22.  I/P Updates
23. Los Angeles Intellectual Property Blog
24. Patent Arcade
25.  University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast
26.  The Patry Copyright Blog
27.  Copywrite
28.  Anticipatethis.com
29.  US Law Watch
30.  Furd Log
31.  The Prior Art
32.  Library Law Blog
33.  IP Watchdog
34.   Likelihood of Confusion
35.  Trade Secrets Blog
36.   Tiny Tech IP
37.   Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog
38.  Daily Dose of IP
39.  Internet Cases
40.  ITC 337 Law Blog
41.  Counterfeit Chic
42.  IP Dragon
43.  Law & Disorder
44.  The Invent Blog
45.  Patent Prospector
46.  Filewrapper.com
47.  Duets Blog
48.  Ruling Imagination:  Law and Creativity
49.  TechnoLlama
50.  Copyright Litigation Blog



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Intellectual Property Legal Birds (on Twitter) by Community Connections

1.   Erik J. Heels (@ErikJHeels)
2.    Mr. Brett Trout (@BrettTrout)
3.   Timothy Powers O'Neill (@TimothyPONeill)
4.   Venkat Balasubramani (@VBalasubramani)
5.   Brent C.J. Britton (@bcjb)
6.   Mr. Thomas J. O'Toole (@bnatechlaw)
7.   Timothy Anderson (@UtahLegalGuy)
8.   Alec Brian Wisner (@AlecWisner)
9.     Kevin Eugene Houchin (@kevinhouchin)
10.  Victoria Pynchon (@ipadrblog)
11.   Gordon Philip Firemark (@gfiremark)
12.   Enrico Schaefer (@Enrico1999)
13.   Glenn B. Manishin (@glennm)
14.   Gregory A. Beck (@gbeck)
15.   Kevin A. Thompson (@cyberlaw)
16.   Steven O'Donnell (@odonnellsteve)
17.  Donald Curtis Kudler Esq. (@DonaldKudler)
18   Matthew Koziarz (@X_Comprising)
19.  Duncan Bucknell (@IPThinkTank)
20   Stephen N. Nipper (@nipper)
21.   Jamil Abdo (@JamilAbdo)
22.   Scott Gibson (@TradeSecretLaw)
23.   Ray Beckerman (@RayBeckerman)
24.   Jon Ethan Lewis (@Jon_Lewis)
25.   Daniel Reisman (@DanielReisman)
26.   David Hardin Milligan (@dmilligan)
27.   Scott R. Cleere (@MadCityCon)
28.   J. Matthew Buchanan (@ptp)
29.   Kenneth David Suzan (@ksuzan)
30.   Jonathan D. Frieden (@JonathanFrieden)
31.    Brian Fletcher (@BrianNFletcher)
32.  Olga Zalomiy (@olgazalomiy)
33.   Latoicha Phillips Givens (@IPLAW101)
34.  Mark David Torche (@patwrite)
35.   Lior Leser (@web20lawyer)
36.   Matthew Saunders (@mattsaunders)
37.   Joseph Duc Dang (@josephdang)
38.   Dana Melissa Newman (@DanaNewman)
39.   Ms. Jan Matthew Tamanini (@JMTLaw)
40.  Rodney Mesriani (@MesrianiLaw)

Source Justia's Legal Birds - Ranked by Community Connection.


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Top 30 Most Popular IP Law Blogs - Justia

1.   Patently-O  (33)
2.   IPKat (34)
3.   Patent Docs (41)
4.   IPBiz (62)
5.   IPThinktank (95)
6.   The University of Chicago Law School (104)
7.   Recording Industry vs The People (106)
8.   US Law Watch (117)
9.   Plagiarism Today (126)
10. 43(B)log (128)
11.  The TTABlog (135)
12.  Illinois Business Law Journal (138)
13.  The Trademark Blog (140)
14.   Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog (199)
15.   Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement (200)
16.   Patent Baristas (213)
17.   The University of Chicago Law School (230)
18.   Chicago IP Litigation Blog (234)
19.   Likelihood of Confusion (248)
20.   Orange Book Blog (251)
21    Technology & Marketing Law Blog (254)
22    Law & Disorder (264)
23.   IPWatchdog (276)
24.   Eastern District of Texas Federal (283)
25    ITC 337 Law Blog (293)
26.   Seattle Trademark Lawyer (301)
27.   Biz-Media-Law Blog (302)
28.   Copyright Litigation Blog (311)
29.   TechnoLlama (342)
30    Freedom to Tinker (344)

Source:  Justia Blawgsearch (accessed 5/28/2010 weekly stats ranking among Blawgs tracked by Justia).

Justia Ranks Copyright Litigation Blog in Top 10 Copyright Blogs

Of the 59 copyright blogs tracked by the Justia Blawsearch the Copyright Litigation Blog now ranks number 8 in popularity.   Below, the top 10 with their respective Justia Blawgsearch rankings:

1. IPKat 37

2. Recording Industry v the People 95

3. Plagiarism Today 117

4. Chilling Effects Clearinghouse 124

5. Nolo Presents the Law 183

6. Chicago IP Litigation Blog 207

7. Likelihood of Confusion 215

8. Copyright Litigation Blog 292

9. Lessig Blog 359

10. TechnoLlama 360

Unfortunately, Bill Patry stopped publishing his copyright blog, it was unquestionably the strongest player in the field.