Before you do anything else, go make a list of every domain name you think you own. Include the ones which aren’t active, or which merely re-direct. Now look up the whois of each and every one of them, making sure that ALL the contact information is correct. And (assuming you still own the names
Victor's Little Secret Wins. Actual Dilution is Required. Unanimous!!
The owners of the VICTORIA’S SECRET trademark failed to establish that an adult novelties store named first VICTOR’S SECRET and then VICTOR’S LITTLE SECRET diluted its trademark. Decison here. Background here.
As to whether the standard under the FTDA should be actual dilution or likelihood of dilution, the Lanham Act says “causes dilution”
Brand As Navigator
StatMarket reports that direct navigation – typing a URL into a browser’s address bar, or using a bookmark, is increasingly being used to access a website, at the expense of links and search engines. Direct navigation is used 64%, up from 53% a year ago. Links and search engines are being used 35%, up from
Third Circuit Clarifies Standard of Review for UDRP Proceedings: De Novo
Lee Strasbery played Hyman Roth in Godfather Part 2 but before that he was famous as an acting coach, training Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe among others. Someone named Dluhos registered LEESTRASBERG.COM. Strasberg’s estate, owners of a federal regsitration incoroporating the name, protested. The Strasberg estate brought a UDRPand Dluhos went into civil court
IPC Meeting in NYC This Week
The Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN will be meeting this Friday at INTA’s offices (1133 Ave. of the Americas, NYC, NY) at 11 AM. The meeting is open to members. We will be discussing the upcoming Rio meeting of ICANN. There will be phone participation. Organizations or individuals may join the IPC and receive instructions
The Daily You
Check out the Harvard news/blog aggregator (ignore how my images are screwing up their formatting). Was it Nicholas Negroponte who coined the phrase “Daily Me,” when referring to the potential of the individual to create a daily newspaper out of news sources the individual pre-selects? Aggregators bring us a step closer to the Daily Me.
SpongeBob SquarePants Barbie
Instapundit on cross-branding.
The 4 Door CHRYSLER DIMETRODON
Thanks to a reader at Kilpatrick Stockton for sending me this article from SeattlePi.com on the re-branding of AvenueA to AQuantive, Inc. It sounds like a somewhat typical experience for a company going through a name-change but I disagree with two statements in the article. The first is the comment that dictionary words are
Probably because Google is announcing a
Probably because Google is announcing a lot of new things at once (buying Pyra, content-targeted advertising, world domination, etc.), the usual Google buzz has turned into palpable Fear and Loathing of Google. I apparently added a little momentum to the debate via Dave, with my comments regarding Googles “free ride” by selling paid advertising.
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