This is why you can never tell a client that you will definitely win. The District Court may display a ‘considerable misunderstanding’ of the likelihood of confusion analysis and you lose.
Virgin Enterprises owns the famous VIRGIN mark which it uses on a wide range of goods and services, including electronic equipment megastores. It also sells
The Sunrise period for the .pro domain name, the domain name for professionals, draws to a close tomorrow. One registrar, Encirca, is having an end-of-sunrise period sale, offering prices much lower than other registrars. There are two types of ‘sunrise’ protections, ProGuard and ProBlock (but no SunBlock), explained here.
| ProGuard | ProBlock | |
| EnCirca | $600 | $1,600 |
| Registrar |
Filmmaker in new legal tussle with pie-maker. Story here.
This case is too procedurally complex to be summarized here. However let me quote some interesting language regarding registrar immunity under ACPA.
L’OREAL brought an action in France against the registrant of LOREALCOMPLAINTS.COM. Pursuant to that action, NSI, in accordance with its policy, deposited control of the domain name with the French Court. Registrant brought a
Welcome to TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION, unWeblog acerca de las tecnologias de la informacion y su relacion con el derecho en Espana, por Oriol Torruella.
Hopefully I will have no further cause to post anything about Spike v. Spike TV. It has settled. First line from the E! article on the settlement: ‘In what must be relief to sharp and pointy things everywhere . . . “
Now we can go on to more important matters. Someone claims that
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a TTAB refusal of the mark 1-800-JACK-OFF for ‘adult entertainment services’ under Section 1052?(a) as the mark comprises scandalous matter. The bit about why this mark is scandalous but JACK OFF JILL is not, is worth reading. Decision here. Wikipedia on Onanism here.
“Whos the nuttiest: Viacom, Spike Lee, or New York State Supreme Court Justice Walter Tolub? If you answered, Hard to saytheyre all completely nuts, you are correct.” The rest of the New Yorker article on Spike TV here (the review of MONK is worthwhile also).
