The New Yorker: “Google’s Moon Shot: The Quest For The Universal Library” by Jeff Toobin.
“Do Pay-For-Placement Search Engines Engage In Trademark “Use”?
Foley & Lardner: “Do Pay-For-Placement Search Engines Engage in Trademark Use?”
Time Waster: Sports Logo Website
The illustrated history of sports logo: SportsLogos.net.
Trade Dress Protection In A Web Page
Why are there not more decisions regarding the trade dress of a web page? Is it because copyright preempts most such claims? Magazine covers have been awarded trade dress protection,Time Inc. v. Globe Communications Corp., 712 F.Supp. 1103 (S.D.N.Y. 1989), why not web pages? (I’ve been puzzling about the trade dress of magazine
Registrar Deletes Domain Name Sua Sponte, Sort Of
Registrars reserve powerful rights to de-register domain names belonging to registrants who have violated the terms of service agreement. They tend not to, in the absence of a court order. It turns out that GoDaddy does, here in the case of a website that was making available lists of MySpace usernames and passwords.
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Whose ‘Famousness’ Is It?
Facts: Masquelier invents a process for deriving a natural extract, and sells it in France under the PYCNOGENOL name. Horphag sells the product in the US under contract with Masquelier. They have a falling out and Horphag obtains the US registration in his own name. Garcia, a new distributor for Masquelier, begins selling a competing
Google Sues Stoller For RICO Violations
Complaint here.
TTablog commentary here.
Little Caesar, inspiration for the use of the name RICO, available here.
“Copyright Suit in China Called Opening Salvo in Media War”
international Herald Tribune: “China Suit In China Called Opening Salvo In Media War”
“A lawsuit that has been filed by one of China’s largest newspapers against one of the country’s leading Internet portals over the issue of massive copyright violations is being described here as the opening salvo in a media war.
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Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From The Grave
Moronland.net: “Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever” Most of these have been around a while but still worth the 30 seconds.
Note to Trademark Attorneys in non-English speaking jurisdictions: We will happily advise if your client’s trademark translates into an obscenity in English.
Ninth Circuit: Kahle v Gonzalez
Kahle v. Gonzalez, 9th Cir January 22, 2007:
“Each Plaintiff provides, or intends to provide, access to works that allegedly
have little or no commercial value but remain under copyright
protection. The difficulty and expense of obtaining permission
to place those works on the Internet is overwhelming; owner-
ship of these “orphan” works is