Lipton, Jacqueline D., “Who Owns ‘Hillary.Com’? Political Speech and the First Amendment in Cyberspace” . Boston College Law Review, Spring 2008 Available at SSRN
Abstract:
In the lead-up to the next presidential election, it will be important for candidates both to maintain an online presence and to exercise control over bad faith uses of domain
“Newspapers Want Google News’ Quarter’
News.com: “Newspapers want Google News’ quarter” (discussing Google’s indexing of newspapering content).
“Who Owns The Linux Trademark?”
Slashdot: “Who Owns The Linux Trademark?”
Previous Trademark Blog coverage of the Linux Trademark.
Must See For Those Interested In Parody and Political Speech
HT Talking Points Memo.
Must See For Those Interested In Copyright
Video explaining fair use using Disney snippets (somewhat reminiscent of a kidnapper’s note read aloud). Hat tip to AT.
The Trademark Blog Is Five Years Old
1,825 days of blogging. Here are posts from five years ago, typos and all.
New Fertilizer In Old Bottles
43(B)log comments in a fertilizer comapny’s practice of selling its product in recycled soda bottles, As
pointed out, there’s an interesting issue of re-using bottles that themselves may have distinctive shapes but there’s an even more novel issue of claiming trade dress protection in that practice of having inconsistent packacging.
Vending Machines In Scotland
DirecTV v Comcast re HD
More fighting re HD claims, this time re Comcast’s allegation that it provides a better HD image.
Introduction to Trademarks Podcast
Proving that I have the face for radio and the voice for print, I recently recorded two podcasts with the lovely and talented Colette Vogele, San Francisco IP lawyer and podcast empresario.
The first podcast is about Trademark Application Basics, and is intended to address the sort of issues raised in that first