May 2010

Plaintiff is in the septic-tank cleaning business (with a ‘green’ marketing approach). When applying for a residential mortage, he provided confidential documents about his business to a mortgage broker,. The mortgage broker apparently likes what he sees and goes into the ‘green’ septic-tank cleaning business himself. Plaitniff sues on a ‘host’ of causes of action,

The UDRP only deals with cybersquatting in the second level domain of a gTLD, so the owner of the mark HOT RUSSIAN BRIDES will fail on the first prong of a UDRP against JIMSLIST.COM, even if the registrant uses the path name JIMSLIST.COM/AGENCIES/HOTRUSSIANBRIDES (and even if the UDRP panel believes that complainant has a perfectly

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Caliber produces SLASH IT sales events for auto dealerships. It has an incontestable registration for SLASH IT! SALES EVENT and another registration for SLASHER SALE. It provides materials and training, including ‘energizing’ for a dealer’s salesmen, so that they can ‘histrionically’ slash prices in front of customers. Defendant produced SLASHER SHOWS infomercials to sell cars.

This is an interesting case. Plaintiff makes copyrighted blank forms that companies fill out when they make EDGAR filings with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act. Defendant downloads completed versions of the forms from EDGAR and sells them. Plaintiff sued for copyright infringement.
First, it seems that this is a case of first impression