Anti-Phishing bill intriduced by Senator Leahy.  Via CNN.

Google legal department should probably take the rest of August off.  There’s GOOGLES and FROOGLE and GMAIL. 

The GMAIL thing is interesting.  The press release announcing Google’s email service is dated April 1, however media broke the news on March 31.  One company, Cencourse, filed a trademark application for GMAIL for email services…

60 Minutes on counterfeiting here.

Bag Borrow or Steal rents designer handbags.  Via Kottke.

A recent Southern Distrct of NY case, Knight-McConnell v. Cummins, has been reported as holding that linking from defendant’s site to plaintiff’s site will not constitute trademark infringement.  There is also broad language that use of another’s trademark in a URL or pathname will not constitute trademark infringement. 

True, but the fact pattern is quirky.  This is a…

BrandChannel article on how Mexican beer brands fare in the U.S. I prefer Corona.

John W. writes to inform us of In re Michael Bergman, in which WASHINGTON SENATORS for clothing was found to be confusingly similar to SENATORS stylized for clothing.

Phishing (sending email with fraudulent email addresses) is a form of trademark counterfeiting (among other torts).  Article on anti-phishing techniques here.