The Register: ‘In the Wake Of Registerfly, Is ICANN Taking Flight?” (Attempting to causally link ICANN’s recent contemplation of a change in legal status, to its recent dis-accreditation (decreditation? removal of accreditation?) of registrar RegisterFly.)
Urban v. Urban Update
Tennessean.com: “Keith Urban countersues Keith Urban”
Group Rankling Caused By Utah Law
Information Week: ‘Utah ban on Trademark Keywords Rankles Groups”
Here’s The Argument Against Buying Counterfeits
You can get trapped in the basement of a store for two hours when the place is being raided.
From NY One:
“Hours after breaking up an alleged counterfeit ring operating out of a Chinatown store, police were surprised to get a call late Tuesday afternoon from shoppers trapped inside the store’s basement.
Police
Domain Name Prices To Go Up A Little
InternetNews.com: “Domain Name Fee Increase Set” (Verisign can raise $6 registry fee to $6.42 in October).
IMPORTANT – SAFETY RECALL
Mid-Hudson News: “Car Delaers Settle With State AG For False Advertising:
” . . . Poughkeepsie Chevrolet mailed thousands of fliers to Hudson Valley owners of General Motors cars with a headline that read “IMPORTANT – SECOND NOTICE – SAFETY RECALL,” complete with a recall number, warning consumers that their vehicles “may be
You Can Own the PONY EXPRESS Trademark
Eccomerce law: “Pony Express Marks Being Auctioned Online.”
The Games That Must Not Be Named
Note the symbol behind those Olympic, I mean, Winter Games figure skaters in ‘Blades of Glory.” I took the fam to see the Will Ferrell movie Friday (Trademark Blog review: Goofy fun) and because I cannot leave the work at the office, I noticed the ‘not supposed to look like the Olympic symbol’ symbol, and
I Heart Dispute
WSJ.com: “We Heart Trademark Disputes Involving People Named Stewart” (re I Heart NY and the KATONAH matters).
“Hoping To Move Guitar Notations Into The Legal Sunshine”
NY Times: “Hoping to Move Guitar Notations Into The Legal Sunshine“:
” . . . about 2 percent of the songs in the company’s catalog have licensed guitar tablature associated with them.
For the remaining songs in Famous Music’s catalog — and the vast majority of the music publishing industry’s collective catalog —