Davina Lee at Bird & Bird in Hong Kong writes to advise that Intellectual Property Department has made available online trademark search of the Hong Kong registry. Right now you can search by mark, soon you will be able to search by regsitrant as well. I used PIKACHU as a test and it displays
February 2003
Brand As Navigator and Fuzzy Searching and Common Name Resolution
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Last week Ben Edelman released his report on typo-squatting (for example the registration of geapliances.com in order, imho, to divert traffic intended for geappliances.com, to a porno site).
Today’s ICANNWatch and Friday’s Copyfight linked to a paper from Seth Finkelstein, describing a program for “fuzzy-searching” of domain names, somewhat remiscent of Google’s “Did you mean…
The BARBIE GIRL Joke Keeps Going and Going an Going
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Usually denials of cert in trademark cases get next to no coverage. The denial of cert in the BARBIE GIRL case has gotten an astounding amount of ink (and pixels). Here’s the latest, a parody article from MSNBC.
The BARBIE GIRL case illustrates one peril in going after a perceived “tarnishment” of a property…