March 2004

Coverage on Froogle, the new shopping service from Google here.

A Froogle search of the term Google here.

Jeff Brandt is a patent lawyer,who, among his other accomplishments, was head of patents at Walker Digital when its Priceline subsidiary obtained its famous business process patent.  Jeff has his own firm now and I’m happy to say that he helps out my clients when they have patent needs.  Jeff has started a website called

Terminated distributor of ‘invisible fence’ for dogs continued to use trademarks of licensor.  2d Circuit affirms District court rulings on personal jurisdiction and injunctive relief.

Sunward Electronics v. McDonald, 03-7432 (2d Cir March 3, 2004).

Commentary on a famous American brand here.  It conjures the object of the parody without creating confusion.  Not work safe due to language.

p.s. Once I went into a Starbucks and asked for a medium and the person behind the counter asked “which medium?”