My anonymous source, Tom at Encirca, tells me that landrush period for the .PRO registry is showing that old sign of strength for a domain – interest in generic names.  So names like commercial.law.pro and tax.cpa.pro and healthy.med.pro are going fast (I made those up as examples, btw).  Encirca is an accredited registrar for .pro,…

Via Snark Hunting, commentary on Intel, owner of the INTEL INSIDE mark (one of the most successful ‘ingedient brands’ of all time), going after the ART INSIDE gallery of Massachusetts.  Photo via the Boston Globe.

Reuters reports that the RIAA sent out 200,000 copyright infringement warnings to users of the Grokster and KaZaa file-sharing networks this week.  The RIAA plans to send out 1 million messages a week.

According to Brandweek, quoting a CLC.com study, the best-selling University trademark, according to royalites, is North Carolina.  Rounding out the top ten: Michigan, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, Nebraska, Georgia and Florida State.  The top selling manuacturer of University-branded apparel was Nike, and of non-apparel was Electronic Arts.

Blogs, Esq., an article from Corporate Counsel magazine.  I should probably re-name my site A Trademark Blog, so as to rank higher in these alphabetical lists of law-related blogs (might hurt my secondary meaning argument, were I to file, however).

Text of German decision prohibiting pop-up ads, discussed here yesterday, again thanks to BNA Internet Law.

I get the critical last sentence in this article from a newspaper located about 20 minutes from Volo, Illinois.  Background here.

Worldcom changing its name back to MCI is only the most recent example of re-branding to avoid badwill associated with a trademark.  We will likely not see  ADELPHIA, GLOBAL CROSSING or ENRON used much in the future even if the businesses themselves continue.  Louis Tompos, a 3L, argues in a note in the Harvard Law…