Via Reuters: JACK FM (sparkNet) v. JACKFMSANDIEGO.COM (ClearChannel).

. . . while I lay in bed last week, but apparently there really is an animated cartoon called MY DAD THE ROCK STAR and there really was an episode in which the heroic kids foil the copyright infringers.

Interesting developing story regarding adoption of generic/descriptive terms:

RSS is a file format used to create feeds (Wikipedia on RSS here).  Reasonable people will differ on this point but I’ll say that RSS is on the cusp of mainsteam consciousness, if not acceptance, and smart money is gathering behind it as a Next…

Friend and colleague Derek Newman of the Seattle firm, Newman and Newman, has started a website, FIRST AMENDMENT MINUTES, to archive his weekly one minute radio show on First Amendment issues.

February 20, 2003:  Alleged date of first use for MILLION DOLLAR IDEA in relation to product and invention evaluation services, and entertainment services (‘low-power’ TV show), by Roaring Entertainment.

March 2004: Roaring pitches Andrea Wong, head of reality programming at ABC.

July 2005: ABC announces ‘Million Dollar Idea’, to be produced by Simon Cowell and…

NY Times editorial: ‘What’s In A Name?’

Via Phosita: Story on the $17.5 million clearance of rights of Dukes of Hazzard.

I will be participating in a panel on ‘Tools of the Trade’,  trying not to give away trade secrets, at the INTA Trademarks in Cyberspace Forum 2005 in Vancouver, September 12-13.

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