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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.
Thanks to Bret at icann.blog for a link to First-person notes to oral arguments in the Victor’s Little Secret case before the Supreme Court (which provide links to briefs in the case). While absolutely worth reading, the note-taker didn’t really frame the case properly – he says the case will turn on the quantum of…
Professor Lessig shines the spotlight on lawyers for the Metropolitan Opera, for shutting a fansite named Metmaniac.com. The issue, however, doesn’t seem as clear-cut as the professor makes it sound. Prof. Lessig does provide a link to a cached copy of the site, which indicates that it was faciliating the swapping of tapes…
A good press agent helps Kate Spade get the word out. This is the second profile in two weeks the NY Times has run on Barbara Kolsun, general counsel of Kate Spade, and former head of the International Anticouterfeiting Coalition. Interesting comment is her assertion that recently there were 900 auction sites selling fake Kate…
Bad week for Marvel Comics. First, in the Second Circuit, Captain America creator Joseph Simon had his suit reinstated against Marvel, regarding the grant of the rights to Captain America. This decision involves questions of equitable estoppel and termination of grants under the 1909 Copyright Act. Next, Stan Lee sued Marvel, asking for a share…
Soemone searched for BEN AFLAC, annoying duck, Darevdevil star, and husband of J.Lo, owner of the Glow by J.Lo brand, and trademark suit defendant.
Since we upgraded the international trademark metasearch in the end of September, 2200 searches have been run. Since we rolled out the improved domain dossier yesterday, 260 searches were run.
The new and improved DOMAIN DOSSIER (permalink on the left side of the
Trademark Blog home page) is four domain name tools in one.
First, enter a string and it provides a Whois for all five major TLDs (comnetorgbizinfo).
Second, it provides a link to an active website for that name, if one exists.
Thirdly…