Via BNA, a MSNBC article reporting that, Bonzi, an online advertiser, settled a lawsuit, apparently brought by a class-action law firm, regarding its advertisements which mimic a Windows dialogue box and state that your computer is broadcasting an IP address. The advertiser agreed in an order entered in Washington state court that:
Future Bonzi
Via NameProtect, an article on WD-40 protesting slippery Texas Democrats referring to themselves as the WD-40s. Another article here.
WD-40’s slogan is “We Live Under The Sink, In The Garage and in the Toolboxes of the World.”
Attorney General Ashcroft is credited with popularizing the expression that you only need two things in life
Decent article from BusinessWeek Online explaining how registering a corporate name and registering a domain name alone, do not create protectable trademark rights.
Dave Weinberger on domain names, personal names and Google URLs, via The Guardian.
The Register on Google pulling ‘negative’ adwords regarding UK retailer Dixons. There is also a subscriber-only article on the matter from the Australian Financial Review. Background here.
Federal Circuit case reversing and remanding the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board rejection of a trademark application: A geographically mis-descriptive mark will be rejected if the PTO shows that mis-descriptiveness was material to the public’s decision to buy the product (which it did not in this case). I might care if my Tillamook Chedder isn’t
Pecorino Romano, literally ‘sheep’s milk from Rome,’ is one of the more popular grating cheeses in the world. Eaten by Romulus himself, PECORINO ROMANO is a Protected Designation of Origin in Europe and a Certification Mark in the U.S., where the Pecorino Romano consortium certifes that the cheese must conform to the following:
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37 page opinion, 25 page dissent on whether a non-us company can bring a Lanham Act claim based on the mere advertisement of its trademarks in the U.S. Important case in the era of the Internet, analysis to follow.
International Bancorp v. Societe des Bains de Mer et du Cerde des Estrangers a Monaco
Peter Brownlow of Bird and Bird, our correspondent at the House of Lords. writes to tell us of a decision handed down this morning which appears to contradict the Court of Appeal decision in the Arsenal case, which Peter analyzed here yesterday.
“The House of Lords handed down a decision in the criminal
Esme Smith of Jones Day will be interim GC while a search is conducted, more details here.