It was great to come home today to a fantastic and thorough trouncing of MTA’s egregious licensing practices on one of the top IP law blogs in NYC: Ron Coleman’s LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®.

In the article, which is well-researched and thoughtfully illustrated, Coleman condemns MTA’s Licensing program, whose cease and desist removed StationStops for iPhone from the iTunes App Store (for now).

Coleman suspects the driving force behind MTA’s licensing behavior may be job security for the responsible MTA employees:

Merits are irrelevant when there is no down side to litigating; all the more so when, to the contrary, someone’s job or department or seniority depends on finding things, no matter how idiotic, to justify his existence.

That looks a lot like what’s going on here. See, there’s nothing private parties can do in business and law that the government can’t do worse!

Read the whole article at LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®.

Disclaimer: Ron Coleman is not my lawyer, and I have no affiliation or relationship to him, his blog, or his law firm, Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP.

That said, I am the newest member of his fan club.