Don’t do what Advice Dog suggests.  Here, defendant’s employee allegedly emailed plaintiff saying ‘Hi guys, I know this might impact you because of its name.  Please let me know” (para. 13 of complaint).

 Complaint Time Warner Smart Home(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var…

Z Ocean Hotel of Flordia sues Z Hotel in Long Island City, New York.  Z Florida had been intending to expand to NY.

 Memo z Hotel Logo

Owner of DR PEPPER trademark sues bottling company for using DUBLIN DR PEPPER outside of license.

Dr Pepper news release here

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A post by Ev Williams, one of the founders of Blogger and Twitter, on five reasons domain names are less important.

Likelihood of Confusion on the larger picture regarding Righthaven.

Katy Perry licensee files John Doe action in anticipation of infringers at upcoming show in Michigan.  Memo discusses appropriateness of TRO in relation to common law rights (Perry has regs for entertainment and pre-recorded media, but only pending apps for clothing).

 Tro Application Katy Perry(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”;…

Defendant uploaded entire Las Vegas Review Journal editorial to website discussion. Righthaven sues. In addition to dismissing on standing (see here for similar ruling in another Righthaven case),  Court holds that while normally, ‘wholesale copying militates against fair use,’ in this case the three other factors (nature of work, purpose of copying and effect…