{"id":1986,"date":"2010-03-02T01:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T07:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2010-03-02T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:32:18","slug":"crocs-and-stilleto-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1986","title":{"rendered":"Crocs and Stilleto Heels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Prost made an amusing fashion observation during the oral argument of the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Crocs v. International Trade Commission<\/span> appeal: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2008-1596-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Crocs&#8217; experts must be Tolkien fans.\u00a0 They apparently argued that the Crocs design\u00a0includes prominent design features that they describe as\u00a0the &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221; and the\u00a0&#8220;Eye of Sauron&#8221;\u00a0a la <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span>: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2008-1596-excerpt-2.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/croc-figure.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1999\" title=\"croc-figure\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/croc-figure.bmp\" alt=\"croc-figure\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can read the court&#8217;s opinion here:[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/08-1596.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/mp3\/2008-1596.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Prost made an amusing fashion observation during the oral argument of the\u00a0Crocs v. International Trade Commission appeal: [Listen]. Interestingly, Crocs&#8217; experts must be Tolkien fans.\u00a0 They apparently argued that the Crocs design\u00a0includes prominent design features that they describe as\u00a0the &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221; and the\u00a0&#8220;Eye of Sauron&#8221;\u00a0a la The Lord of the Rings: [Listen]. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}