KaZaa in trouble over use of KAZAA as it is phonetically similar to CASA in Germany.  Via p2pnet.net.

SPAM (Hormel) v. SPAM KING (Richter) via The Register.

Paranova of Norway defeats trade dress action brought by Merck, via InPharma.com.  Also via InPharma.com, a report of a UK study on parallel imports of drugs and the relationship to counterfiet.

Steak n’ Shake sues Burger King, alleging exclusive rights in STEAKBURGER.  Burger King disagrees.

Wal-Mart steakburger party pack here.

Kansas City steakburger here.

Information on becoming vegan here.

Unusual full page ad in today’s Wall Street Journal consisting of ‘open letter’ written by CEO of TRUE.COM, to Barry Diller, head of rival dating website MATCH.COM.  Match.com subpoenaed 6 former employees who now work for True.com, for depositions regarding possible trade secret theft.  Turning the tables, True.com asks “what is it exactly that you are…

Article on founder of World Wide Web here.

Dispute over licensing of historical National Football League historical photo archive here.

Use of copyrighted digital media by academia here.

Fighting online movie piracy here.

Further illustration of proposition that one (in this case two) may not use one’s own name if to do so would cause confusion.  Suisman has a dispute with his firm, SUISMAN, SHAPIRO, WOOL, BRENNAN, GRAY & GREENBERG (known as SUISMAN SHAPIRO), leaves, and hooks up with Shapiro to form SUISMAN & SHAPIRO.  Relying on evidence…

AMERICA’S FAVORITE PASTA is non-falsifiable puffery, not a falsifiable claim subject to false advertising (and the Court doesn’t need survey evidence to make that finding).  Last line of decision: the Lanham Act protects against misleading statements, not misunderstood ones.

American Italian Pasta Company v. New World Pasta Company, No. 03-2065 (8th Cir.  June 7, 2004)