INTA’s book “Trademarks Law and the Internet” has now been updated.  The book is edited by Neal Greenfield (who is affiliated with SchwimmerLegal, helping clients, among other things, manage their domain names); and Lisa Cristal (who comes by here for lunch sometimes).  I co-authored a chapter for the supplement entitled “UDRP Trends” with…

Alleging that working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks, Verisign has sued ICANN for screwing with it once too often.  Story here, links to complaint part 1 and part 2.

Duck quote in this article.

Press Release announcing that Zuccarini (background here) will receive 30 months in prison for violating the Truth in Domain Names Act.

At least two of the domain names mentioned in the press release, DINSEYLAND.COM and BOBTHEBIULDER.COM appear to have been registered by third parties and are pointing to pages of links.

How Google’s results compare to those of Yahoo’s when the search term is NIKE, via Langreiter.com.  Thanks to Greg for this.

A judge has ruled that a lawyer should be awarded $300/hour for his courtroom work, but only $150/hour for his written work, which was “‘careless’ and ‘laden with typographical errors.'”  Via NYLawyer.

ICANN intends to decide on the domain name Wait List Service in its upcoming Rome meeting.  Via eWeek, more here and here.

Cache La Pourde has a federal trademark registration for PROFILE for animal feeds. Land O’Lakes has an application for LAND O’LAKES PROFILE for feed and is selling the feed depicted.  Cache La Pourde has filed a $132 million trademark suit against Land O’Lakes.

Apple is promoting its iLife ’04 product with the slogan “It’s like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life.”

Interesting.