Information Week: Google Takes Aim At Domain Tasting Profiteers:
Google is planning to introduce a system to detect a form of domain registration abuse known as domain kiting. In so doing, the company stands to lose millions in advertising revenue, though it may gain far more in user trust and goodwill.
Registrants of Internet
LocaTechWire.com: LuLu Settles Lawsuit Against Hollywod’s Hulu:
Bob Young, founder and chief executive officer of Lulu, has dropped his trademark infringement lawsuit against Hulu, the Fox- and NBC-backed online video Web site.
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Lulu filed suit against Hulu last fall after the Hollywood venture disclosed its name. Young felt that Hulu would
A cloaca is an orifice in reptiles, birds and other animals, and the name of this website.
Via E!Online, Jay Leno and other comedy writers settle with compiler of allegely infringing joke book.
Foxworthy v. Custom Tees, Inc. (1995 case in which ‘redneck’ comic Jeff Foxworthy proves unique expression in jokes.
Prof Patry on the Foxworthy case and the protection of humor.
Mystic Krewe of Mardi Paws receives demand letter from Have A Heart Through Art, owner of registration for MARDI PAWS.
Washington Times: Inside Politics:
Two organizations with slightly different names are united in their opposition to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign. And now they may be united in a trademark dispute.
Citizens United, the conservative group headed by David Bossie that just released its sixth documentary, “Hillary: The Movie,” has sent a cease-and-desist
QUESTIONARY THE GAME OF SMART QUESTIONS and design, for board games vs PICTIONARY for ‘equipment sold as a unit for playing a board game.’ Assume the goods are legally identical and travel in the same trade channels.
Answer on Friday.
Apple threatens an opposition against Plaintiff’s application for AIRPOD for air purifiers. Plaintiff brings declaratory judgment action against Apple arguing that AIRPOD for its products is not confusingly similar to Apple’s IPOD products. The complaint does not allege that Apple threatened a civil proceeding.
BlueAir v. Apple, Inc., 08 C 427 (ND Illinois Jan
Sports-law Blog: ESPN Relies (in part) on CDM Fantasy League Case To Renegotiate Licensing Fees:
In today’s edition of Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal (subscription required), John Ourand and Eric Fisher report that ESPN is renegotiating its digital rights deal with MLB Advanced Media, looking to pay a significantly lower fee after finding several
MediaPost: Scientologists Threaten Gawker Media With Legal Action Over Cruise Video:
WHEN A NINE-MINUTE VIDEO OF Tom Cruise touting the Church of Scientology hit the Web recently, the group quickly sent out takedown notices. Many publishers complied, but not Gawker Media’s Nick Denton.
Now, the notoriously litigious Scientologists have complained to Gawker that the