There’s only one registered U.S. mark (HUSSEIN CHALAYAN) and no pending applications containing the HUSSEIN element. Friday time waster: go to Cafe Press and put in HUSSEIN as a search term.
This Is The Week In IP That Was This Week
The Independent: “Hands off our kilts: Scots bid to copyright their national dress.” Bonus IPKat link to a picture of a cat wearing a kilt here.)
Counterfet Chic: “The Audacity of Hope.”
AOL: Company Logo Quiz
43(B)log: Thomas The Tank Engine of Free Expression
Seattle Trademark Lawyer: Trademark Dilution Weekend
“Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay”
TechCrunch: “Copyright Infringement Continues To Pay: $4 million For Crunchyroll”:
San Francisco based Crunchyroll, a sort of YouTube for anime and other mostly Asian video content, raised a $4 million round of financing led by Venrock Associates, with partner David Siminoff joining the board of directors.
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Too Cheap To Matter
Wired: “Free! Why $0.00 Is The Future of Business“:
Zero marginal cost
What’s free: things that can be distributed without an appreciable cost to anyone. Free to whom: everyone.
This describes nothing so well as online music. Between digital reproduction and peer-to-peer distribution, the real cost of distributing music has truly hit bottom.
TTABlog: Recent Developments in U.S. Law May Trouble Foreign Trademark Owners”
TTABlog: Unfriendly Shores? Recent Developments in U.S. Law May Trouble Foreign Trademark Owners
Foreign trademark owners who seek registration in the United States may be troubled by several recent developments in American trademark law. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s current fraud jurisprudence holds an applicant or registrant strictly responsible for false statements made to
Cubs v. Rooftops Overlooking Wrigley Field
Various buildings overlook Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. Entities unrelated to the Cubs operate businesses on those buidlings’ rooftops, charging admission and selling food and drink during Cubs games. The Cubs have sued some of these businesses for, among other things, falsely suggesting endorsement by the Cubs:
Chicago National League Ball Club. LLC
GumGum Launches New Image Licensing Platform
TechCrunch: GumGum Launches New Image Licensing Platform:
US Bullying of Canada?
Prof Patry: No One Likes a Bully: The IIPA and Canada:
It is entirely proper for U.S. industries to protect their own interests. IIPA’s website, though, shoots for a loftier goal, that of helping to create “a legal and enforcement regime for copyright that not only deters piracy, but that also fosters technological and
Relevancy, Search Engine Optimization and the Rip-Off Report
In a longer post of Prof Goldman’s, he supplies some links discussing, in his view, rising anger of SEO firms with the Rip-Off Report, and allegations that Google somehow favors it.
“With A Death In Congress, An IP Shakeup Looks Likely”
Ars Technica: “With a Death in Congress, an IP Shakeup Looks Likely“
Rep. Tom Lantos’ (D-CA) death from esophageal cancer last night leaves an opening at the top of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, an opening that appears to be perfectly shaped like Howard Berman (D-CA). Berman is expected to take over the