In this NY Times article on the hiring of Barbara Kolsun, former chairwoman of the board of the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition, as Sr. VP and General counsel of handbag maker KATE SPADE, there is a discussion of “purse parties,” where suburban housewives gather to purchase knock-off handbags.  They sell knock-off handbags in the lobby of…

This time Reuters is in trouble for unauthorized linking.

I have been Googling phone numbers for a variety of reasons for quite some time but I only recently learned via Icann Blog that when you Google some phone numbers, you will immediately get an opportunity to get a map of the location of the phone number via Yahoo Maps or MapQuest.  Great when you’re…

Serialsniper.com has been registered. The website solicits an offer to sell the name.  The whois of Enom, the registrar, does not identify the registrant.  The namespinner program at Verisign says “Verisign recommends serialsniper.biz” and “Other names you might like [include] serialsniper.tv”

Rosie fights with ROSIE.  Rosie leaves ROSIE.  ROSIE closes ROSIE. ROSIE sues Rosie.  Rosie counter-sues ROSIE.  My chance of having magazine named after me diminished.

Nartron’s complaint that STMicroelectronics infringed its SMART POWER trademark for electrical relay assemblies and electrical power circuits in combination with electrical logic circuits is dismissed by Sixth Circuit, on the grounds that (1) SMART POWER is a generic term for technology that combines power transistors and control circuitry on a single integrated circuit and…

Icannwatch on Wall St. Journal on the ITU on ICANN.

Doonesbury on Blogs.  This is not a permalink so today is the only day to see this.