I blogged previously on the Southern District Court of New York decision in the COHIBA cse, wherein the Court held that the Cuban plaintiff had protectable trademark rights in the COHIBA mark in the U.S. after it showed evidence that its reputation here met the standard under Article 6bis of the Paris Convention for protection as…

SearchEngineWatch review of VisioBrand, a directory of brands.

SearchBlog on keyword prices and click fraud.

Today’s emerging issue: legal treatment of blogs linking to political candidate websites (as in does linking to a candidate’s website constitute a (regulable) political contribution).  Tempest set off by News.com article here; Instapundit compilation of links here.

Discussion of Google’s Auto-Link function continues.  Of interest are:

Fred von Lohmann of EFF likening a service to a butler you ask to annotate your mail (emphaszing the ‘you ask’ and the ‘your mail’).

Washington Post article reporting that Barnes & Noble has added ISBN links to its own site in order to prevent Auto-link…

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From the New York Public Library’s collection of images.

Until that time, please blog amongst yourselves.

Emerging issue:

The new Google toolbar adds links to content through a function named Auto-Link.  For example, it is my understanding that if an address appears on a webpage, a program in Google’s toolbar can create a link from that address to, perhaps, Google’s map service.  This has stirred some controversy, as it gives…