alex roberts

DJ: I need all the moms up here dancing on the stage me: oh no I don’t think that’s nec— DJ: [plays “poison” by bel biv devoe] me: excuse me i’m needed on the stage

me: oh good a book about academia & sororities & being a working mom! & marriage! & doing scholarship about social media! …oh wait I think it’s about to go off the rails …OH DAMN WHAT IS HAPPENING 😳

been feeling low-key insane for months b/c my phone & computer are consistently 2 minutes apart. like do i join the 3:00 meeting when my phone says 3 or 2 minutes later when my laptop says 3? anyway just noticed outlook is giving me emails timestamped in the future

property law professors, this truly epic hypo is for you! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

today i have to teach a patent case about dunking poultry in acid to make it weigh more & to tell you the truth i'm super grossed out about it thanks, federal circuit

really proud of this guy 😍 massachusettsalmanac.com/eric-goralni...

keurig claims that its K-cup pods contain coffee that is “freshly ground.” but K-cups have a long shelf life--expiration dates can be fa year & a half away. @truthinads.bsky.social asks: "in 2028, will that coffee still be 'freshly ground'”? truthinadvertising.org/articles/keu...

what my colleague wrote: i can come to the lunch, what time is it what i 100% definitely typed in reply: great! noon what outlook chose to change it to and send: great! boob

before this trip i googled the name of my hotel + "gym" & gemini informed me there was indeed a gym & displayed several photos of it so i packed my gym clothes, planned my travel around a morning workout, & got dressed for it this morning you'll never guess what happened next

excited to get feedback on this law review article that i've been working on for almost 37 zacharias 😓

so happy to be at @nyulaw today for the harvard/penn/nyu trademark & unfair competition roundtable, which is basically my fav conference of the whole year b/c it's ALL TRADEMARKS ALL DAY (& all fabulous people)

Excited to be at NYU-Harvard-Penn 5th Trademark & Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable, where I'm commenting on @lexlanham.bsky.social's great new piece on working through failure-to-function doctrine with regard to purportedly incapable matter like FUCK and THINK GREEN @nyuengelberg.org

the amtrak quiet car is 90% people who are so happy to have a peaceful silent journey to their destination & 10% people who are like THIS IS THE WHAT? WHAT’S A QUIET CAR? OH THAT’S MY PHONE I GOTTA TAKE THIS, HELLO?!?

living in this country is constantly rage inducing. when my kids get home from "safety day" today (elementary school active shooter drills) i guess i'll tell them to make sure not to watch the government-sanctioned live-streamed execution www.wcvb.com/article/expe...

trying to figure out a way to work kelly clarkson & molly into my trade secret lecture today 🤔

as an IP lawyer I really enjoyed moriarty kicking off this book with a supposed churchill quote, followed by an admission that it’s inaccurate & an explanation of the real quote & why she used the fake as epitaph, all summed up by an apocryphal mark twain quote

oh you SYMPATHIZE, copilot? you also want yourself to go away? that must be so annoying and disruptive for you copilot

commode liner co. sues competitor for trade dress infringement, asserting packaging features incl. a 3-flap box, blue-green colors, bicolored packaging surfaces, & images displayed in a 2-by-2 grid court found the TD functional & non-distinctive 🚽🚽 www.vitallaw.com/news/tradema...

love my conversations with pest control me: there was one guy with a million legs pc: show me where you saw the centipede me: also, teeny flies that are easy to crush pc: i will spray your fungal gnats me: there is a hole in the lawn not for bunnies pc: found your mole hole!

if we learned anything from lululemon suing costco over dupes it's that the primary response to news of this infrngement suit by the public will be people saying "wait, i can get croc dupes for $7 at five below instead of $40 from croc!? on my way!" usaherald.com/crocs-sues-f...

first of my bloodline to receive an alert for a patent-related headline featuring the phrase "a double-decker pickup frunk with trick" americancarsandracing.com/2026/09/22/f...

adidas sues white fox (a brand my middle schooler enjoys) for trademark infringement over its four-stripe apparel because, you know, adidas owns stripes. just the mere idea of stripes. don't even gesture toward the existence of stripes. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

12 y/o: don’t we have a day off school coming up 8 y/o [confidently] it’s colombian day me: colombian day? 8: yeah to celebrate colombia me [checking calendar] oh wait, indigenous peoples day. did you mean to say columbus day? 8: yes, that’s what I said. colombian day. 🇨🇴

you know what’s even better than touching grass? these heart leaves I discovered on my walk today 💚 🍃

Per Complaint: "Sir Pizza has ... developed distinctive trade dress in . . . the overall appearance of its pizzas, which are consistently presented with a thin crust, chopped toppings carried to the edge, chopped or diced pepperoni rather than round slices . . . and a signature square-cut style"

the only question i have for outlook copilot is how to make outlook copilot go away & stay away?

sir pizza in TN files a TRO alleging former licensee who opened king pizza breached agreement, misappropriated trade secrets, & infringed TM w/ similar branding & a menu that is a “near word-for-word recitation" of the 1 created for the franchise location www.wsmv.com/2026/09/29/t...

revising, i.e. staring at this comment until i lose my whole entire mind does "G-d bless the USA" fail to function as a mark for a pillow that has that phrase on it b/c it describes that pillow or is "G-d bless the USA" a *feature* of a pillow that has that phrase on it

today is kat von D day! & it's almost 130pm in san francisco 👀

surfside has dropped its trade dress infringement suit (striped can; sunshine) against anheuser-busch over skimmers hard lemonade i was never that impressed by it but i know some disagreed www.inc.com/lucia-auerba...

small sleepwear co. sues american eagle over use of OVERSLEPT as a trademark for pajamas, alleging AE is using "virtually identical marks, in similar fonts, on the same class of goods, sold to the same consumers, through similar channels of trade" www.law360.com/articles/252...

new balance sues sporting goods co. decathlon for trademark infringement, alleging that the "K" on their kiprun running sneakers looks too much like the "N" on NB's sneakers in fact, NB calls the mirrored "K" logo "unmistakably an N" 🤔 www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

it’s been pouring for 3 days & they’re refusing to cancel my kid’s middle school cross country meet or I guess, nor’easter flood mud run I just…why

STOR U SELF descriptive or generic for self storage services? (just drove by one on the way back from maine)