Law.com’s list of IP counsel for Fortune 250 companies.  I’m outraged that two clients of mine on the list didn’t mention me.

Law.com article fretting about the Internet alowing for extra-territorial jurisdiction.  The fact pattern leading off the story (Italian authorities sat down at the defendant’s Italian computer to shut off the U.S.-hosted website) doesn’t give me nightmares.  Dave Farber’s fact pattern doesn’t either (if you are on notice that you have violated Australian law, skip the…

Apparently Worldcom’s claim that Internet traffic doubles every 100 days was untrue (this from the Economist).

Nominet panelist adopts the willing suspension of disbelief in giving credit to respondent’s version as to why scoobydoo.co.uk is a legitimate fan site and not an attempt to profit off the name.  Just ignore the fact that he sold merchandise from the site (before the demand letter), and the fact that he offered to sell…

Coca-Cola, Pepsi, the Washington Post and McDonalds moved for a TRO and Preliminary Injunction against William Purdy, an anti-abortion activits, who registered various domain names incorporating plaintiffs’ names, pointing them to anti-abortion information (including fund-raising information).  See July 16 entry below for more background.  Now plaintiffs have been granted the TRO and the injunction and…

See this cnn.com story.

New organizations have come out in favor of spam, via The Onion. [irony indicator on].

Check out this picture of a gas station sign.  The station owner, oddly, sells SHELL gas AND its own brand (somewhat unusual).  In addition to the franchisor/franchisee issues discussed in the law.com article, what we may have here possibly is a rare real-world case of Initial Interest Confusion, where the copying of a mark…