Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos. Interesting quote:
Brand is a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
Are there any law firms with a Zappos-like culture?
That’s Who That Is? SwipeBids v QuiBids – Fake Blogs, Fake Reviews and Melissa Theuriau
SwipeBids and QuiBids are ‘pay per bid’ auction sites. They will promote prior sales of popular consumer electronics and other items for very low prices. For example, on SwipeBids right now, it indicates that it sold an Apple MacBook Pro for $387, and a $20 Amazon Gift Card for $2. How do they do it?
Ticker Symbol Lawsuit
Coverage here:
Invesco Ltd., the Atlanta-based investment management company, has been sued by a Boston-based trust claiming infringement of its trademarks for exchange- traded funds.
Select Sector SPDR Trust said Invesco began marketing its PowerShares funds using the same XL ticker symbols SPDR has been using, in a complaint filed today in U.S. District
Mix-in’s as Grey Goods: Identifying Third-party Ingredients By Brand Names
Defendant bakery identifies branded cookies and candies as toppings for its cakes. Plaintiff See’s Candies alleges that defendant’s ‘manufacture, storage, sales and storage’ processes don’t meet See’s standards, therefore the See’s candies offered are materially different and therefore infringing.
Complaint Sees Aunt Joy
Text of Ninth Circuit Opinion Reversing BRATZ Constructive Trust
Coverage here.
Decision Bratz
‘Appeal’ Of UDRP To District Court
Plaintiff is a re-seller of Defendant’s NUPRO product. It registered the NUPRO.COM name and used it as landing page to promote the NUPRO product (linking to its multi-brand site). Defendant brought a UDRP and for the reasons described in this decision, the panelist held that plaintiff’s use exceeded a four part test of fair
Truthy More Protectable Than Truth
Plaintiff publishes “database compilations and market research performance indices known as BanxQuote National Average Money Market and CD Rates.” Defendants allegedly used indices beyond scope of license in offering bank services and Plaintiff moved on a variety of theories including copyright. Defendant moved to dismiss, arguing in part that plaintiff had not validly alleged infringement
The PTO As Straight-Man In Monty Python Sketch
TTablog reports on the examination of an application for STEALTH that may or may not have been submitted by an entity associated with Leo Stoller . For those of you late to the party, Stoller is an ‘unusual’ guy and one of the objects of his obsessions is the PTO. Here, the Stoller ‘Pension Plan’
Mr. Olbermann, Please Retain Me
Tucker Carlson works for The Daily Caller. He is on the opposite side of the political spectrum from Keith Olbermann. The Daily Caller purchased the name KEITHOLBERMANN.COM. Yesterday it ran a story on it entitled “WE OWN YOU.” As of this writing, the lead story on KEITHOLBERMANN.COM is not about Keith Olbermann but about
Pairs of Images Similar Visually In One Way Or Another
The pairs of images in this “Similarities” set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of the pieces can form their own opinion(s) about what they see.