November 2002

NYTimes, Wired and others are jumping on this story of how Wal-Mart and other retailers have forced websites such as Fatwallet.com from publishing those retailers’ pricing (apparently obtained from up-coming post-Thanksgiving sales circulars).  The retailers are arguing that the sales circular represents a protectable compilation of facts.  The retailers also utilized the DMCA in order…

Registrant didn’t show up and still prevailed in a UDRP brought by ASDA against the domain name ASDASUCKS.NET.   The rationale of the decision is that, when discussing the first prong of the 3 prong test, the panelist, Tony Willoughby (whom I hold in high regard), held simply that ASDASUCKS is not confusingly similar to ASDA. …

I am the guy you met in Scottsdale and this is the website I told you to check out.

Catching up on trademark news from last week, the November 13 New York Times reports that UBS has retired the WARBURG and PAINEWEBBER brands (Thank you PaineWebber, now get out). Thursday’s Wall Street Journal has an…

Here is an article from Sourceforge regarding the status of the LINUX trademark.  What is doesn’t make clear enough is that Linus Torvarlds, author of the LINUX operating system, owns a registered trademark 1916230 for LINUX, and all other things being eqaul, third parties cannot own trademarks incorproating that term for goods and services realted…

If the remote blogging connection doesn’t work, then I’ll speak to you next week.  The metasearch and domain dossier should work in the meantime.