. . . technology that allows the user to access Wi-Fi while riding a Segway.

The NY Merchantile Exchange sued an alternate exchange on the grounds that its use of NYMEX settlement prices violated its copyright (background here).  The lovely and talented Copyfight pointed me to this law.com article on the  case.  If any of you out there are, represent, live with or just plain know arbitrageurs (traders…

Some other minor fees are going up as well, according to the Federal Register.  The fee increase is effective January 1, so get your trademark filing instructions in to me now. 

The string of UDRP cases regarding re-sellers (such as the WEBER Grill case) has long been troubling. to me.  I understand how a distributor of authorized ACME products may not be cyber-squatting if they point the name to a page selling ACME products (even though the such use might still be infringing, because, in…

FatWallet has announced a partial victory in its tussle with Wal-Mart over FatWallet’s dissemination of Wal-Mart’s post-Thanksgiving prices (background here and here. 

 I hope that some of the parties will make public some of the papers in this case, specifically those which shed light on Wal-Mart’s theory that the prices in the circular were…

As previously mentioned, CBS, owner of rights in The Survivor TV show, is suing ABC and Granada TV, which intend to broadcast a show entitled “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.”  Here, via Amlaw, is the Complaint.  Of interest is the cause of action alleging that the show has a famous…

This Orlando Biz Journal article is getting a lot of linkage for its coverage a lawsuit brought against ICANN barring it from utilizing “sunrise” provisions – means by which holders of registered trademarks could register.info domain names corresponding to those trademarks, before the rank and file could get their hands on those names.

You have…

A business owner wrote a small business advisor in the Sacramento Bee:

As a new home-based business owner, I would like to find out more about searching and registering a trademark for my new Web service. I plan to sell ethnic food over the Internet and want to ensure my brand as well as avoid

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