Ron Coleman

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– Ron Coleman litigates where new technology outruns the legal categories built for the old one. He was lead counsel in Matal v. Tam, the U.S. Supreme Court case that stripped the government of its power to refuse "disparaging" trademarks, and he has spent two decades representing the people building things the law hadn't anticipated – online marketplaces, review sites, platforms, publishers and podcasters. With co-counsel he brought a federal challenge on behalf of 4chan and Kiwi Farms to Britain's attempt to regulate American speech. He has written LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION, one of the longest-running intellectual property and free speech blogs on the internet, since 2005, back when blogging itself was the disruptive technology. He hosts the ColemanNation podcast, writes The Fallacy of Abundance on Substack, and posts more than he should as @roncoleman on X.