According to the Wall Street Journal, MLB Advanced Media, the online divsion of Major League Baseball, will not sign deals with companies that use spyware to serve ads.  The article defines spyware as software that once installed on the user’s machine, reports on the user’s activities so as to determine which ads to serve…

Problems regarding protection of SHAOLIN TEMPLE trademark for Kung Fu, via chinaview.cn.

History of Kung Fu here.

Lyrics to “Kung Fu Fighting’ here.

Filmography of David Carradine here.

Filmography of Keith Carradine here.

HBO’s DEADWOOD site here.

Sixth Circuit: POWERZONE for Radio Shack’s ‘store-within-store’ is not confusingly similar to and has not caused actual dilution of AUTOZONE for auto part chain.

AutoZone v. Tandy, 01-6571 (6th Circuit  June 29, 2004)

Yes, by Prof. V. Jackson.  No, by Judge R. Posner.  Via Volokh.

Thompson and Thompson has agreed to purchase Information Holdings Inc., owner of search service Trademark.com and IP management software Master Data.  Via AP.

Fourth Circuit: Copyright owner’s claims against ISP for direct infringement dismissed, as ISP would have to commit volitional acts to be liable for direct, as opposed to indirect infringement.

CoStar v. LoopNet, 03-1991 (Fourth Circuit,  June 21, 2004).

Federal Circuit: PATENTS.COM held to be merely descriptive of and not inherently registrable for software for tracking patents.

In re Oppedahl, 03-1525 (Fed Cir  June 25, 2004) via Finnegan Henderson.

Olsen twins sue Acclaim over video game royalties, via Celebrity Justice (Celebrity Justice?).

International Society for Twin Studies here.