September 2005

Engadget notes that Apple has filed two trademark applications for IPODCAST last week, covering extremely broad ranges of goods and services.  Engadget’s negative reaction seems misplaced (and seems to confuse patent concepts with trademark concepts).  Apple is seeking exclusive rights to use IPODCAST as a trademark to identify certain goods and services – it is not

Wow.  In researching the piece I’m about to post (see above) I saw an office action (dated September 9 of this year) containing a descriptiveness objection, supoprted by live links to Wikipedia.  Wikipedia is an amazing, uh, encyclopedic source, but given that anyone can edit a wiki page, its use as a reference source in

Special thanks to INTA and all the presenters for putting on a great cyberspace law conference.