Pleasure to introduce three of americas leading trademark scholars, joining us today to understand the arguments you have just heard. Rebecca is the stanchion professor of the First Harvard Amendment Law school, file filing the brief of trademark scholars in the booking. Com case. Margaret duncan filed a brief in the in support of the respondents in booking. Com and she is the adjunct professor out of the Chicago School of law and she filed a brief on behalf of the intellectual Property Law Association of chicago, where she is vice chair of the amicus committee. Karin is the legal director of the Electronic Frontier foundation, filing a brief in support of the petitioner in booking. Com. Corinne,margaret, thank you to all of you for joining. Thank you. Wonderful. Lets begin with you. Congratulations, your brief was. Ited several times before delving into the but dots in the brief, tell us what this case was about. What were the main legal arguments on both sides . What are the stakes i
The chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. All persons having business before the honorable Supreme Court of the United States or admonished to get their attention. We will hear the argument this morning takes 1946 the United States patent and Trademark Office versus booking. Com. Mr. Chief justice, and may i please the court, it is a principle of the trademark law no party can continue for a generic term like wine or green. The act confirmed the generic term is never entitled to trademark protection matter how much money and effort the user has poured into promoting the merchandise and what success it has achieved in the public identification. In other words, the meetings require distinctiveness and irrelevant to the generic terms. It is undisputed that its generic for the Reservation Service responding. Respondents could entirely register and the quick filed the addition of the designation like company or ca doesnt have a taxable mark. Thats b
Inflation did rise. So what did stocks do in they went up. Its all just a case ofuring that market adage inside outside. In this case, se the rumor, buy the news. After a stumble out of the gate tonight, equties rallied, and strongly, for a fourth straight session. The Dow Jones Industrial average advanced to 24,893. The nasdaq added 130 and the s p 0 was up 35. Babb pisani mightily tries to hy explain w stocks went up todwh most thought he would go down. Reporter is the market worried about inflation or not . Stocks took a knows dive on february 2nd when the jobs report pointed to strongh. Wage grow it fell on today when a read on consumer inflation came in stronger. But by late morning the market recouped all of its losses and move higher. What happened . First volatility has been a big wory recent. Today the main measure of volatility, the vix dropped dramatically, indicating that traders who make bets on volatility were betting that volatility would be lower in the next month. That
You may not have felt pressure. If he is even asking, to me that is a very relevant piece of information. At least in terms of the conversation with admin rogers, we will give at least another individuals version. At some point, these facts have to come out. Senator refressh. Thank you, director coats and admiral rogers for your testimony. With all due respect from my colleague from virginia, i think you have cleared up substantially your direct testimony that you have never been pressured by anyone including the president of the United States, to do something illegal, immoral or anything else. Thank you for that. A live look at the Senate Intelligence hearing there in washington, d. C. Neither rogers of the nsa nor coats of the dni believe it is appropriate to discuss conversations they have had with the president in a public session, not commenting on whether or not they would Say Something similar in a private session. We are watching this as we work our way through this day and pre
Yellen testimony, this time to Banking Committee. At 11 00, the u. S. Congressional Budget Office will announce the fiscal year 2018 urgent in washington. President trump will hold a joint News Conference with president macron in paris. Jonathan from talk to dove. Hawk to dove. Committeden we are to obtaining our 2 objective and are aware for a number of years we have been running under that and recognize there are dangers that would be associated with persistent undershoots of our inflation objective. It is 2 is not a ceiling, it is a metric objective. The msci old country index and douse it at record highs. The stoxx 600 following the best day in 11 weeks. The bloomberg dollar index falling to the lowest in 10 months and bond yields a grind flour. Joining us in new york is Jeff Rosenberg the chief income. Trategist at blackrock what did we learn yesterday from chair yellen that we didnt know the day before . That the market was expecting her to shift her tone. The bond markets partic