Registrant obtained COLLECTIVEMEDIA.COM in 2002. Opponent begins use in 2005, brungs UDRP. Held: opponent should have known it would lose. Collective Media, Inc. v CKV . COLLECTIVEMEDIA.COM WIPO D2008-0641.
The TTAB Means What It Says About Evidence, con’t
TTABlog: Evidentiary Errors Lead to Dismissal of 2(d) Opposition for Failure to Prove Prioirty:
Rule 2.120 is a bit long, but it is worth reading now and then.
Com Laude Newsletter On The New gTLDs
Registrar Com Laude (run by friends of the blog Nick and Lorna) on the new gTLDs:
Read this document on Scribd: CL Newsletter Summer 08
Can’t Blog About Times Article On Girl Talk
I see the article, I want to comment on the ‘substituting creativity for your own’ comment, but then I start playing Feed the Animal, people come into my office, they say ‘is that ‘Body Movin’ by the Beastie Boys, we look at the list of the samples, somebody else comes in, they hear
Nike Sues EMS Over Use of DRI-FIT As Keyword
Nike sues Eastern Mountain Sports for keying ads for its wicking apparel to Nike’s trademark DRI-FIT.
Ad Age commentary here.Nike
Read this document on Scribd: complaint nike ems dri-fit
Text of Decision in 2d Circuit Remote DVR decision
“China Learning Fast in IPR, Also The Bad Habits”
IPEG.EU: “China learning fast in IPR, also the bad habits“:
Some bad copyright practices in Europe China now emulates. Take this recent article on People’s Daily about China copyrighting ancient images. Digital technology is being used to conserve the famous Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, in Northwest China’s Gansu Province (on UNESCO World Heritage
Text of Decision In Lucasfilms v Ainsworth (Stormtrooper Copyright)
Lucasfilm Ltd v Ainsworth [2008] EWHC 1878 (ch) (31 July 2008):
This is a case about the reproduction of replicas of various props used in the first Star Wars film. The Star Wars films are a series of science fiction films set at some different time and in another part of the Universe, and
Dell Receives Notice of Allowance for CLOUD COMPUTING
Wikipedia on Cloud Computing.
Word Mark CLOUD COMPUTING
Goods and Services:
IC 040. Custom manufacture of computer hardware for use in data centers and mega-scale computing environments for others
IC 042 Design of computer hardware for use in data centers and mega-scale computing environments for others; customization of computer hardware for use in data
“Copyright and California’s Anti-SLAPP Law”
43(B)log: “Copyright and California’s Anti-SLAPP Law“:
Duncan sued defendants, including the Sierra Club, based on Thomas Cohen and Kristi Cohen’s attempts to make a film of Duncan’s book The River Why. He alleged copyright infringement and various state-law claims.
The court first rejected the argument that California’s anti-SLAPP statute applied to federal claims.