Reuters reports that the RIAA sent out 200,000 copyright infringement warnings to users of the Grokster and KaZaa file-sharing networks this week.  The RIAA plans to send out 1 million messages a week.

According to Brandweek, quoting a CLC.com study, the best-selling University trademark, according to royalites, is North Carolina.  Rounding out the top ten: Michigan, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, Nebraska, Georgia and Florida State.  The top selling manuacturer of University-branded apparel was Nike, and of non-apparel was Electronic Arts.

Blogs, Esq., an article from Corporate Counsel magazine.  I should probably re-name my site A Trademark Blog, so as to rank higher in these alphabetical lists of law-related blogs (might hurt my secondary meaning argument, were I to file, however).

Text of German decision prohibiting pop-up ads, discussed here yesterday, again thanks to BNA Internet Law.

I get the critical last sentence in this article from a newspaper located about 20 minutes from Volo, Illinois.  Background here.

Worldcom changing its name back to MCI is only the most recent example of re-branding to avoid badwill associated with a trademark.  We will likely not see  ADELPHIA, GLOBAL CROSSING or ENRON used much in the future even if the businesses themselves continue.  Louis Tompos, a 3L, argues in a note in the Harvard Law…

The BNA Internet Law Newsletter (recommended free subscription here) reports that a German court has ruled that pop-up ads triggered by a user leaving a website are illegal, as they force users to take notice without consent.  Case number 2a0 186/02 (landegericht).

If you haven’t heard of or read about this decision by 10 AM Monday morning, then you’re just not trying.  Dive into Copyfight for limitless links.