Via Copyfight, an interpretation of the term “mirror-site.”

Update: and then, seconds later, I see a Google version of the same joke, via Doc Searls.

The latest affirmation from the Federal Circuit that single titles of books do not function as trademarks.  Even though a party sold a million copies of THE CROSSWORD COMPANION to Walmart in 1993, 1993 would only serve as its date of first trademark use of the term if it published another book in a series…

This from the Clarion Ledger of Missippi regarding Ole Miss’ attempts to police its trademarks.

In going through the backlog created by the move to suburbia, I found this news.com article on ‘paid’ search engines modifying the labeling of their search results, under FTC pressure.  See here for background.

Via cnn.com, a minor league baseball franchise, the Calgary Cannons (a Marlins affiliate), is moving to New Mexico, where it will be re-named the Albuquerque Isotopes, in honor of Homer Simpson’s favorite team, the Springfield Isotopes, which, in Episode 15, Year 12 of  The Simpsons, was moved by its owner, Duff Beer, from Springfield to…

 The Trademark Blog has previosuly discussed appellations of origin.  Here is another example – this article describes how glassmakers in Murrano in Italy must take steps to protect their island’s name as a source of glassware.

This is Ebay. 

This is eGray, a site which comments on Californa Governor Gray Davis and California politics. 

This is Dr. Seuss Enterprises v. Penguin, the “Cat Is Not In The Hat” decision, in which the author mimicked Dr. Seuss’ literary and artistic style to comment on the O.J. Simpson case. …

Initial Interest Confusion doctrine is an important concept and I had hopes when I saw that Posner, J. was sitting on a panel hearing such a case.   Unfortunately, he didn’t write the decision and all we received was a somewhat simplistic endorsement of a controversial doctrine.

Equitrac competes with Promatek’s COPITRAK product.  At the urging of…