Only lawyers may make ex parte communications to the Commisioner of the Patent and Trademark Office.  Governor Jeb Bush is not a lawyer, he is the brother of the man who appoints the Commissioner of the Patent and Trademark Office.  According to this Washington Post story (additional background here), he wrote a letter to…

Via IcannWatch.  Verisign proposes to charge a $85 wholesale price to registrars when registrants renew after the domain name has expired, but before the end of the redemption grace period.  Now there are no additional charges for renewing late. 

Undeservedly short answer to the excellent questions asked by Ernie the Attorney here:

Denise does not likely have nationwide common law trademark rights in the term BLAWG even though she coined it because, as far as I know, she does not use it as a trademark.  Specifically, she uses BLAWG to describe the class of blogs…

The judge in the LINDOWS csae has dismissed Lindows.com’s motion for summary judgment, ruling that it is a disputed factual issue as to whether WINDOWS was the generic term for “graphical computer operating environment” software.  Text of order here.  The case now goes to trial in April.

A key holding in Part VI of the…

 When I met InstaPundit at a conference in November, I shamefully admitted to him that I didn’t know what ‘fisking’ meant.  He patiently explained that it is a line-by-line analysis of a piece. This article appeared in today’s NY Times.  You will have to forgive my knee-jerk reaction to any article which contains the quote…

There is apparently a battle for the control of publicly traded domain name registrar Register.com (ticker symbol RCOM).  RCM Acquisition made an unsolicited offer last week, now Zackfoot Investments has made a higher offer.

Other publicly traded companies in the “brand” sector are Verisign (ticker VRSN), Tucows (TCOW.OB), Information Holdings Inc. (IHI), Melbourne IT…

This article from the Internet Law Researcher, reprinted on the INTA website, is a good list of IP resources on the web.  Disclosure: the article says nice things about this blog.

BULLION is a mass of gold or silver. BOUILLON is a clear soup from beef. chicken or other meats.  BOUILLIOUN is a surname of a former president of Boeing and a registered trademark of Bouillioun Aviation Services.  BOUILLABAISEE is a fish chowder. 

Registrant filed for BOULLION.COM.  She testified in this UDRP that she had intended…