June 2010

Lady Gaga is performing at Madison Square Garden in NY on July 6,7 and 9 and February 21 and 22. Her trademark representatives beliieve that bootleg merchandise will be sold at these shows, and have filed a ‘John Doe trademark complaint.’ John Doe actions are interesting as they represent an exception to the law’s antipathy

This is an important SDNY decision. Gucci sued companies that process credit card transactions for ‘replica’ websites. On 12(B)(6) motion, Court holds:

Gucci can proceed with its action against Defendants if it can show that they (1) intentionally induced the website to infringe through the sale of counterfeit goods or (2) knowingly supplied services to

In anticipation of next week’s meeting in Brussels, ICANN has released a fourth draft of the Applicant Guidebook that describes the process of applying for new generic top level domains.
It has also released “An Economic Framemark for the Analysis of the Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domain Names” which concludes that either good and/or bad

Defendant recording studio, Reckless Music, LLC, attempted to defend itself against copyright infringement by arguing that the studio engineer who copied plaintiff’s software without authorization, was an independent contractor. It was found liable on a vicarious liability theory but costs and fees were not awarded agaisnt it because its defense was not unreasonable, under Fogerty

In a copyright action involving works uploaded to the Internet, does New York jursidiction lie over an out-of-state defendant with no contacts with New York, if, inter alia, the defendant is alleged to have committed a tortious act outside the State that caused, and reasonably should have been expected by the putative defendant to cause,

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
There, you’ve started Ulysses. You’ve gotten this far, might as well finish it.
Bloomsday activities in NY here.