A sports fan at Bird and Bird writes:

“Judgment was handed down yesterday by the Court of Appeal in Arsenal Football Club PLC -v- Matthew Reed

In summary they overturned Mr Justice Laddie on his finding that:

1.      the ECJ decision was not binding on him in all respects; and

2.      that on the facts …

This really is a Seventh Circuit case as to whether there can be a binding oral assignment of copyright in fake novelty teeth.  Plaintiff made Austin Powers’ teeth.  The decision offers numerous insights into a hitherto misunderstood product.

Ben Edelman has released a preliminary report on Gator, which monitors users’ visits and provides targeted pop-up advertising.  Ben has devised a method for discerning which third-parties may be using Gator to target a particular website.  Ben describes his report as follows:

“I today released “Documentation of Gator Advertisements and Targeting,” a report

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Producers of Prosciutto di Parma ham and Grana Padano cheese prevailed in the European Court of Justice as the ECJ upheld laws requiring purveyours of products bearing those appellations of origin to perform certain processes (in this case slicing the ham and grating the cheese) in the region of origin.  Parties to the cases (including Wal-Mart’s ASDA…

Prof. Lessig is soliciting support to introduce a bill into Congress re amending the Copyright Act re: copyright terms.  Details here.

Interesting discussion on Kuro5hin.org re how to build tarpits to catch RIAA spiders.

The Trademark Blog started a year ago today.  I sent in my renewal fee to Radio Userland yesterday.  Thanks guys for creating a great program.

In the past year:

-two people wrote me to warn that the Nigerian bank email was a scam;

-one person wrote to inform that contrary to what I had written…

At least three companies other than Overture appear to have purchased OVERTURE as a keyword on Google.  No one other than Google  appears to have purchased the keyword GOOGLE on Google.

At least one company other than Google appears to have purchased the keyword GOOGLE on Overture.  At least twelve companies other than Overture appear to have…