SearchEngineWatch: “Trademark Law – What Search Marketers Should Know, Part 1”
Trademark Law – What Search Marketers Should Know, Part 2.
2007
Trademark Blog Live In London Oct 23-27
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Miscellany
I’m going to be in London next week. Who wants to get together?
When Black Friday Comes con’t
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Protection of Data
If warning letters about leaking Wal-Mart’s prices have arrived, can Black Friday be far behind? Via BFADS.net.
Interesting Website User Agreement
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Contracts
The Dozier Internet Law Firm came in for recent criticism of copyright mis-use when claiming that posting of its cease and desist letters were barred by copyright. Greg Beck has done some more digging and points us to Dozier’s User Agreement. You can’t link to it but it’s interesting.
Is John Zuccarini A Recidivist?
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Domain Names
In the old pay-per-impression days, John Zuccarini reportedly made $1 million a year registering typo-sites such as bobthebiulder.com and teltubbies.com. I brought a UDRP against him, maybe you did too. It is thought that the Truth in Domains Act was targeted at Zuccarini, who was the first person ever arrested under it, and was imprisoned…
I Want To Thank All The People Who Made This Nomination Necessary
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Miscellany
The Trademark Blog has been nominated for “Best NY Blawg”. Vote early and often here. Quizlaw and Overlawyered are pretty good blogs, btw.
GIGANTIC v. WE ARE GIGANTIC
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Likelihood of Confusion
Adrants.com: “Gigantic Goes After MDC’s WE ARE GIGANTIC For Trademark Infringement”:
“Both GIGANTIC and We Are Gigantic are located in New York. Urban has taken issue with MDC naming its new shop We Are Gigantic and has filed suit against We are Gigantic, L.L.C. and Neil Powell claiming trademark infringement.
Urban tells us…
“MoveOn.org Reverses: Allows Critical Ads on Google”
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Search Engines
Wired.com: “MoveOn.org Reverses: Allows Critical Ads on Google“:
“The left-leaning political advocacy group, MoveOn.org, is backing down in a flap over the use of its name in online advertisements, permitting an influential Republican senator to criticize the organization in a reelection ad on Google’s search engine.
“We don’t want to support a…
What’s The Story With These Google Ads Purporting To Link To My Site?
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Search Engines
Let me ask you guys something. As an exercise, I purchased some keywords that have to do with trademark law for ads that promote The Trademark Blog.
I use MyBlogLog, which identifies URLs that readers clicked on to get to my site. One such URL is:
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-4171260820145196&dt=1192178573625&lmt=1192178573&prev_fmts
=728x90_as&format=300x250_as&output=html&correlator=1192178572531&channel=5765682001&
url=http://www.wwe.com/divasearch/competitions/res
If you click on that URL…
Google Unveils YouTube Antipiracy Tool
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in YouTube
TechMeme coverage on Google unveiling YouTube antipiracy tool.