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Free Sampling As Entrapment
Discourse.net: agreed, this story is funny and tragic.
Smile When You Say That
Wired article on Damon Wayans filing for the mark NIGGA for various goods. He has several months to respond to an office action that rejects the application on Section 2(a) ‘immoral or scanadalous matter’ grounds (well known to those following the DYKES ON BIKES matter).
The DYKES ON BIKES application was approved for publication
Guy Kawasaki: The Name Game
Oddest Footnote In An Important Internet Case To Date
Footnote 4 from P10 v. Google: ‘P10 repeatedly objects that the term ‘thumnail’ is a misnomer, even going so far as to point out that the thumbnails displayed by Google can be up to eight times the size of a person’s actual thumbnail.
Perfect 10 Obtains Injunction Against Google’s Use of Thumbnail Images
Perfect 10 v. Google, 04-9484 (C.D. Cal Feb 17, 2006). via News.com.
Initial reaction from two different leading Internet figures: wow.
The holding turns on the fair use analysis of Google’s display of thumbnail images (the Court held that Google neither displayed nor distributed full size images, as it utilizes inline linking to, and
Cigarette Graphics Collection
Will The Real NBA Logo Man Please Drive To The Basket?
FoxSports.com: History of the NBA, including the NBA’s reluctance to acknowledge the general consensus that Jerry West is the model for the guy in the logo. HT Kottke.
Can I Copy My CD To My IPod?
Protection of Scent in the Netherlands
Wouter Pors, friend of the blog from Bird & Bird from its Amersterdam office, read our post regarding the protection of scent in France, and writes to inform me that I am sadly behind the times: the Netherlands granted protection to scent two years ago in Lancome v. Kecofa.
English decision in Lancome here.