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This newsfeed pulls content from Ron Coleman's blog. He is a commercial litigator with a special interest in copyright and trademark law. The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet) and legal issues related to blogging. That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

The law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal said recently it has issued a cease-and-desist letter to a journalists' collective urging it not to release online a trove of documents plundered from its computer servers.

Last week The Wall Street Journal reported that two major US law firms had been hacked in the summer of 2015. Why, by whom, and what was stolen is just conjecture.