For those of you handling UDRP cases involving the names of stadiums, UDRPLAW.NET has compiled a list of all of them.

Here is a press release and depiction of the new certification logo by which record copanies will indicate that the CD contains anti-copying technology.

Rosie has resigned from ROSIE.  This AdAge article indicates that G+J (publisher of the soon to be named something else magazine), has lined up new names for what once was called McCALLS magazine.  Always ready to provide esoteric trademark ramifications of tawdry public spectacles, the Blog provided this preview way back on August 9.

Taftquack update:  An Ohio judge has allowed continued use of the Taftquack duck by the Hagan for Governor campaign (which duck was objected to by the AFLAC duck – see background).  This AP article quotes an AFLAC lawyer as arguing that Ohio voters will mistakenly think that AFLAC has endorsed the Hagan campaign.  In…

Via IDG:  An adult media company wishes to purchase the NAPSTER trademark and domain name to establish an adult P2P network.

Advance copies of CDs distributed by record companies to reviewers sometimes become the source of pirated copies.  To combat this, Epic Records is distributing portable CD players with the CD inside and the player glued shut.  I guess this is a somewhat less sophisticated instance of what Prof. Lessig refers to as the architecture…

Contemplate this website.  Review this story via abcnews.com.  Ponder how political candidates’ names function in part as trademarks.  Meditate upon initial interest confusion.  Wonder whether the public is well-served by the current state of affairs where candidates promote themselves with methods borrowed from pornographers and extortionists.

Someone who may or may not be named Alfredo Versace and who may or may not be Gianni Versace’s cousin, has certainly violated the preliminary injunction from selling merchadise which infringes Gianni Versace’s trademarks (law.com).  See previous discussion of the “sacred right to use one’s own name.”