The Wells Fargo/WhenU decision is a must-read for many reasons.  Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for plaintiffs, you learn in para. 128 that a related company of plaintiff uses defendant’s complained-of service.

Pop-Up Ad distributor WhenU has defeated Wells Fargo’s motion for a preliminary injunction in the Eastern District of Michigan.  This is WhenU’s second victory, having defeated a similar motion brought by U Haul, in the Eastern District of Virginia (background here).

Wells Fargo v. WhenU.com, Case No. 03-71906 (E.D. Mich. Nov. 19 2003).

According to IcannWatch, as soon as their registries reached their two year anniversaries, the number of .INFO and .BIZ domain name registrations began decreasing, as deletions outpaced new registrations.  .INFO has crested (at least for the time being) at approximately 1,184,000 names, .BIZ at 1,055,000 names.

If you know the URLs of the…

Question for discussion raised at the recent INTA mid-Winter meeting: In view of the U.S. accession to the Madrid Protocol, U.S. Attorneys will lose filing income from non-U.S. clients who use Madrid and non-U.S. trademark agents will lose filing income from U.S. clients.  Nevertheless, applicants who receive office actions will still need to retain local…

Because then I’d get into this sort of thing.

IPKat on Disney’s upcoming movie BAD SANTA and the concept of protection of traditional knowledge and folklore.

Miami Herald article on cybersquatting, including quote from John Barry (long list of UDRP cases involving him, here).

Via CRN.COM, a report that SCO will pay the Boies Schiller firm (the other law firm around here) approximately $9 million ($1 million in cash and stock valued at about $7.9 million) for its representation in the Linux dispute against IBM.

UPDATE: An article from Forbes.com indicating that on top of the $9 million…