IHT: “Brussels Court Rules Against Google In Copyright Case“:
“A court in Brussels ruled Tuesday that Google violated copyright laws by publishing links to stories from Belgian newspapers without permission, a case that legal experts said could have broad implications in Europe for the news services provided by search engines.”
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Citi Out From Under Umbrella
Bloomberg: CitiGroup to sell umbrella logo St Paul Travelers.
The biggest U.S. bank plans to sell its red umbrella trademark to St. Paul Travelers Cos. and operate under the “Citi” name after failing to get most consumers to think of anything except insurance when they saw the 137-year-old symbol. The deal, announced in separate
An Ironic Demand Letter
First Life bills itself as a 3D Analog World. It makes ambitious claims about the users’ ability to ‘work, reproduce and perish.’ There does not seem to be a terms of service agreement, suggesting that users would have to rely upon the court system for intellectual property protection, a distinct disadvantage compared to, for example,
Possible The Last iPodMonday
Read the correspondence between Apple and <a href="
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This Year’s Model
Not The Story Of My Life, Part Two
Universal Poised To Win Royalties War With Bolt.com
IHT: “Universal Music Group poised to win royalties war with Bolt.com”
“Bolt has agreed to admit that the uploads were a violation of Universal’s copyrights and to pay a settlement valued at several million dollars, said Aaron Cohen, Bolt’s chief executive. Bolt will also agree to pay royalties in the future any time
BIg Game Hunting
The Thing On TV On Sunday Between, Uh, That Team And, Uh, The Other Ones
You know how the NFL polices the mark SUPER BOWL, as in, a store can’t say ‘Your Super Bowl Party Headquarters,’ because, you know, people would be confused.
So stores would say “Your Big Game Headquarters” or “Buy some snacks for your Big Game Party”?
Well, check out this pending trademark application, currently
‘Hybrid’ Hourly/Contingency Billing For IP Litigation
Our Firm recently represented an IP owner who alleged that goods sold
by defendant infringed its rights. A complaint was
filed in federal court. The matter was ultimately settled on
favorable terms.
A matter such as this is amendable to being handled on a ‘hybrid’ billing basis. In such an
arrangement, representation is on a