Verisign has been sued by a domain name registrant for $3 million in damages allegedly resulting from Verisign’s ‘dropping’ of the domain name. This is the first suit against Verisign since the Ninth Circuit held in the sex.com case that the negligent handling of a domain name registration was a colorable claim.
Second Circuit: Spider-Man Billboard Case Dismissed Without Prejudice
The owners of several buildings in Times Square had sued Sony Picutres because the movie SPIDER-MAN had contained digital renderings of those buildings altered to show different ads on the billboards than those found in real-life (presumably depriving the building owner and those advertisers of additional revenue). The district court dismissed the trademark claim on
TTAB Documents Available Online
John Welch tipped me off to the PTO’s unveiling of TTABVue, a system for viewing scanned-in TTAB documents filed since January of this year.
Se Habla Espanol
According to this WIPO press release, starting on April 1, 2004, applicants will be able to file for international trademark regsitrations in Spanish.
Nothing To Do With Radio-controlled Cars
According to the NY Times account of jury selection in the Dennis Kozlowski trial, the judge said “This is not about the toy company of a similar name.”
Home of Tyco RC here.
Mr. Krabs' Trade Secret Rights in the Krabby Patty: Discuss
Mr. Krabs zealously guards the secret of his secret sauce in his krabby pattys, which he sells in his restaurant, The Krusty Krab. Plankton seeks to steal the recipe for his rival restaurant, The Chum Bucket. Mr. Krabs observes an important tenet of trade secrets, in that he maintains the confidentiality of the
Final U.S. Rules for Madrid Protcol
Rules of Practice for Trademark-Related Filings Under the Madrid Protocol Implementation Act; Final Rule, via patents.com.
Map of Madrid courtesy Lonely Planet, all rights reserved.
Searching via Amazon
Coverage on Amazon’s proposed search engine from AtNewYork.com, SmartMoney.com, and InfoWorld
Nike vs. FIFA re USA 2003
Two of my favorite subjects, trademark litigation and soccer, in one story. Nike has sought a declaration of non-infringment of the mark USA 2003, apparently in response to demands from soccer’s governing body, FIFA, that it owned exclusive rights in the term in relation to soccer. FIFA has previosuly established rights in terms such as France
Legal Analysis of SiteFinder
Legal analysis of ICANN/Verisign contracts via ICANNWatch suggesting that ICANN has limited ability to stop SiteFinder, should it want to do so.