2005

According to this release, the judge in the CITY OF HEROES litigation (background here) has dismissed certained trademark claims brought by Marvel against the provider of a multi-player online role-playing game that allowed users to create superhero ‘avatars.’  He also took Marvel to task for certain ‘false and sham’ exhibits and allegations (

John Berryhill on Domain Name Valuation (originally posted to the INTA list):

There is no shortage of self-styled “domain name appraisers” which use formulas relating to length, common word frequency, etc., but if “lawyer.com” is worth $4M, is “goodlawyer.com” worth more or less than that?

Sedo.com and Afternic.com are probably the top two domain marketplace

Walter Mossberg, tech columnist of the WSJ, on Google Auto-Link:

I’ve had long conversations about this with senior Google officials, and they say they are actively considering changing the way the AutoLink feature works so it might not actually alter the Web pages themselves. They note that the feature is a work in progress.