Doc-tuh.
This Is What I’m Talking About Re WEB 2.0
This illustration for Tim O’Reilly’s article “What Is Web 2.0?” suggests the challenge that CMP created for itself in maintaining WEB 2.0 as a trademark (as opposed to a meme). Forget for the moment whether lawyers are necessary, or whether it was bad PR for CMP to send a demand letter, or if O’Reilly
Chinese Catfish Can Be CAJUN For Now
Lousiana has statutes that seek to prevent misleading usages of the terms CATFISH and CAJUN. An importer of what it viewed as Chinese catfish (clearly labeled as orginating in China) sold under the CAJUN BOY trademark, ran afoul of the law. Fifth Circuit struck down the Catfish Statute as unconstitutional and held that the Cajun
Discussion Of Secondary Liability Of Flea Market
Foley & Lardner: “Flea Market’s Theory of Secondary Liability Doesn’t Fit, So Court Doesn’t Buy” discussing Arista Records v. Flea World (DNJ 03-2670 3/31/06 (Flea market held to be contributory infringer based on vendor’s sale of infringing CDs).
One Million Hits This Month
According to my web software, which cannot be trusted, the Trademark Blog had one million hits this month.
This is all the more notable given that there were no decisions involving Perfect 10 this month.
On The Internet, the NAF Knows You Are Not A Cat
Respondent in UDRP alleges that it is a cat, which is not an affirmative defense, and possibly casts doubt on the rest of the allegations.
Must read opinion for that dry British wit:
Morgan Stanley v. Meow, NAF 671304 (May 22, 2006).
Practice pointer: If you are cat, use one of those domain name
Web 2.0 v. Web 2.0
Web 2.0 t-shirt here.
Wikipedia on Web 2.0 here.
Blog of IT@Cork, organzation that received demand letter from CMP (parent of O’reilly) re use of WEB 2.0 to describe its IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference, here.
O’Reilly essay: What is Web 2.0
Most recent post from O’Reilly.
Cory Doctorow on the controversy.
First .MOBI Deadline May 29
The new .MOBI top level domain name is going live. There is a sunrise period this week until the 29th for entities that can establish that they are part of the ‘mobile industry’ (established by membership in one of several mobile industry organizations).
A second sunrise begins June 12 for holders of trademark registrations (any
Proposed New York State Anti-Cybersquatting Law
Discussion here.
Text:
The language of S2306 follows:
Introduced by Sens. LITTLE, ALESI, BRUNO, DeFRANCISCO, FARLEY, FUSCHIL-LO, HANNON, LARKIN, LEIBELL, LIBOUS, MALTESE, MARCELLINO, MARCHI, MAZIARZ, MEIER, MORAHAN, PADAVAN, RATH, SALAND, SKELOS, VOLKER, WINNER – read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to
Call For Submissions Re Baseball Statistics Case
Let’s have a blogging symposium re the Fantasy Baseball case. It’s got everything: Intellectual Property, statistics, and Baseball.