Via Xinhua: “Chinese industry and commerce management departments at all levels discovered 51,851 cases involving infringement of trademarks like Louis Vuitton, Chanel and POLO last year, up 27 percent from the previous year, an official aid here Thursday.”
Mandrake Makes Trademark Disappear
French software company Mandrake changes named to MANDRIVA, thus making its trademark dispute with Hearst Corp., owner of MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN, disappear.
Tiger’s Shot on the 16th Hole
Why not link to the homemade Nike commercials of Tiger’s 16th hole shot that are popping up.
New Branding Blog
STRANGE BRAND is a new blog on branding from the CEO of Forty Media. Recent posts concern AJAX, the Google dance, and advertising in RSS feeds.
Experiment Re: Group Annotation of Legal Text
You may be familiar with WIKIPEDIA, an ‘open’ encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
You may be familiar with Open Source Software Development wherein any developer can take a crack at developing a program (Linux and Mozilla likely being the best known examples of such a process).
You may be familiar with the Talmud wherein
Papal Domain Names
The domain name JOHNPAULIII.COM is available for sale on AfterNic for $1950. It was registered in 1999.
POPEJOHNPAULIII.COM re-directs to catholichomeschooler.com. It was registered this past January.
Names such as Lando II, Formosus II and Agatho II, papal names not re-used, in one case, since 681, are still available. Hat tip Volokh.
‘Not The Same Starbucks But Across The Street From Each Other
Gratuitous Hostility Possible Defense to ACPA; Purposeful Hostility, Maybe Not
Ok, let’s say I have a dispute with you. Maybe you’re my former employee and you have cheated me out of the pension that is rightfully mine. Or you’re the town police department and you unfairly ticketed my Cooper mini. Or we have some other transaction that leaves me feeling hard done by, and I
Like Water, Only Less So
This is the oddest descriptor I’ve come across in a while: NEAR WATER. According to this NY Times article on the Coca Cola Company in Japan, its a flavored water.
Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded To Dilution Researcher
Press Release: The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005
1 April 2005
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided that the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2005, is to be awarded to:
Ravi Kunz-Vallstein Panjandrum-Lipshitz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA