January 2012

Twittier CEO Dick Costolo interviewed on Twitter’s policy on ‘local blocking.’ Discussion begins at 1:57.
p.s. ‘Instantiation’ is the representation of abstraction with concrete ‘instances.’ such as Twitter representing the abstract idea of national boundaries with concrete filtering. Thanks to Prof Eric for the five dollar word.

The websites of the US PTO,  OHIM,  WIPO and many national trademark offices all have variations of warnings such as this appearing on the UK website:

“We would like to warn customers about a business practice that is on the increase. This practice has caused concern to many of our customers.

A number of companies

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The now searchable  list of defendants in an infringement action brought by Burberry (SDNY 1:12-cv-00479-TPG) (complaint not on ECF)
John Doe 1
QIAO RENFENG A/KA QIU YANYANG AIKIA LIN RUI A/K/A CHEN DERONG A/K/ A XUE BINXUAN A/K/A YONGBO LI A/KIA XIAO JINGJING A/KIA JIANG AI A/KIA XUZHEYE XUZHEYE A/KIA XU ZHEYE A/KIA ZHOUMINMIN AIKIA…

Sorority sues terminated licensee.

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WD Texas (Nov 2011): Judge dismisses defendant flea market’s motion to dismiss LV’s contributory trademark complaint on the pleadings (top document). Footnote 3 addressing policing burden: The argument that defendants are ‘impermissibly burdened’ is ‘unpersuasive.’ “Avoidance of contributory infringement does not require a flea-market owner to take precautions against the sale of counterfeit goods or…