The Abu-Ghazaleh firm on Iraqi trademark law.
JessicaLynch.pfc
The domain dossier takes a string and searches the whois of the major TLDs (com, net, org, info and biz). It reveals that domains names beginning with JESSICALYNCH, PFCJESSICALYNCH and PFCLYNCH are pretty much all gone by now. Other people named Jessica Lynch (presumably) registered jessicalynch.com and jessicalynch.net previously. The rest got snapped up on April 2 or
Sues Whatever A Spider Can
Drudge Report article on Marvel suing Sony over rights to Spiderman Brand Policing Tools
The Wall Street Journal has an article entitled “Tool Traps Poachers of Web Names” in which they give a nice plug to BrandCrawler, a service from BulkRegister. Last Thursday’s Journal mentioned GenuOne’s product (discussed here previously). I’m of several minds (and have various conflicts) when discussing tools which allow for policing or searching
Volokh on Right of Publicity
Eugene Volokh via Slate on why Pfc. Jessica Lynch, like Zelig, doesn’t own the rights to her own life.
Explain-o-joke: In Zelig, the main character sells the rights to his life story to a movie studio. There’s a lawsuit and in the settlement, he only gets back the boring parts.
One Last Look at the Fake Puma Ad
An article from Slate on the fake Puma ad and a different way of looking at tarnishment – subviral marketing.
Sixth Circuit Doesn't Decide Initial Interest Confusion Case
Initial Interest Confusion (IIC) is, imho, one of the key doctrines in the treatment of trademarks on the Internet. If a user is diverted to a website through the unauthorized use of a trademark (in a domain name, meta-tag or some other method), but any confusion is dispelled prior to purchase, is that trademark infringment
But Yogi
Denise collects links on yogi’s behaving badly. The founder of Bikram Yoga is attempting to enforce copyright in his style of yoga and trademark in his name.
New York Yankees great Yogi Berra was so named because he reminded a childhood friend of a yogi he had seen in a movie.
It is generally
Red Fish Sue Fish
</p.A Candidate for a Top Ten Phantom Mark of 2003
The Trademark Project, a new blog, became aware of a pending application for the mark TOP TEN TTAB DECISIONS OF 20** filed by a trademark lawyer, for articles about decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The blogger notes that the mark seems descriptive, and also, it appears to be an unregistrable phantom