Consumer WebWatch, a project of Consumer Union, has released a study entitled: “False Oracles: Consumer Reaction to Learning the Truth About How Search Engines Work.”   It reports its major findings as:

1. Most participants had little understanding of how search engines retrieve information from the Web or how they rank or prioritize

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Todays Times reports that U-Haul has lost a trademark and copyright case in the Eastern District of Virginia against WhenU.com, a purveyor of pop-up advertising.  According to the article, no decision has been released as of yet.

Meanwhile, via InternetNews.com, a report that Overstock.com has sued Gator, the leading pop-up company.

Via the Miami Herald, Pizza Magia and Papa John’s have settled their lawsuit that involved trade secrets for making pizzas.

SAVAGE STUPIDITY is not confusingly similar to MICHAEL SAVAGE.  Perhaps he should be flattered by that.  Respondent’s website apparently is critical of complainant’s radio show.  Respondent’s press release here.

Talk Show Network v. Thomas Leavitt, FA0304000155182 (NAF June 24, 2003).

Posner on Aimster.  Injunction against Aimster upheld. Decision here.

Text of the decision in the ENTREPRENEUR case.  Entrepreneur Media v. Scott Smith dba EntrepreneurPR, (C.D. Cal June 24, 2003).

Prof. Eugene Volokh, of the highly recommended Volokh Conspiracy, wrote a good concise commentary of the Nike/Klasky commercial speech case, which case the Supreme Court decided not to hear, after initially granting cert.  Look for it on the editorial page of today’s Wall St. Journal.

There goes my monopoly on the Arsenal v. Reed case.  Professor Jeremy Phillips is the founder and editor of the European Trade Mark Reports for Sweet and Maxwell (which I recommend).  He and his colleague Ilanah Simons have started an IP blog named IPKAT.  Its subject matter is broader than mine in that the…