SAVAGE STUPIDITY is not confusingly similar to MICHAEL SAVAGE.  Perhaps he should be flattered by that.  Respondent’s website apparently is critical of complainant’s radio show.  Respondent’s press release here.

Talk Show Network v. Thomas Leavitt, FA0304000155182 (NAF June 24, 2003).

Posner on Aimster.  Injunction against Aimster upheld. Decision here.

Text of the decision in the ENTREPRENEUR case.  Entrepreneur Media v. Scott Smith dba EntrepreneurPR, (C.D. Cal June 24, 2003).

Prof. Eugene Volokh, of the highly recommended Volokh Conspiracy, wrote a good concise commentary of the Nike/Klasky commercial speech case, which case the Supreme Court decided not to hear, after initially granting cert.  Look for it on the editorial page of today’s Wall St. Journal.

There goes my monopoly on the Arsenal v. Reed case.  Professor Jeremy Phillips is the founder and editor of the European Trade Mark Reports for Sweet and Maxwell (which I recommend).  He and his colleague Ilanah Simons have started an IP blog named IPKAT.  Its subject matter is broader than mine in that the…

Not trademark, but an interesting UK copyright case wherin the court must interpret the phrase SIZZLE MY NIZZLE, among others.  Via IPKAT.

It was ten years ago this month that Adam Curry registered the domain name MTV.COM in his own name and all hell broke loose.  My old firm represented MTV.  I was thrown on the case because I was the only attorney who owned a modem (maybe 14.4 but I don’t remember).  I saw mtv.com…

Perhaps parents want to show their pre-school children the BOB THE BUILDER website at BOBTHEBUILDER.COM. 

Oops, that was really BOBTHEBIULDER.COM, which directs to a pornography site.

Maybe your children want to see websites about Aaron Carter,  Britney Spears,  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Digimon, Dragonball Z, the Muppets, Rug Rats, or Sailor Moon.  They better…