Who’d’ve thought it? RankedHard.com.
What Was It I Was Thinking About?
Something to ponder this weekend:
First, there’s this must-read piece by Clay Shirky. It’s a little bit about content, more about the disingration (and atomization)of the newspaper business).
Then, check out the various links contained in this Time piece about the Stewart/Cramer dust-up (note especially Prof Balkin’s meditation on the corruption and degradation of
So This Is Irony
Something happened to the domain name owned by my hosting company. That’s why I haven’t been able to post for a week. The story is coming to be in bits and pieces. Stolen credit card number, expired domain name, etc. I hope my hosting company knows a good IP lawyer.
Twitter Paid $6 For Its Bird Icon
BusinessInsider.com: Twitter Paid Designer $6 For Its Icon
ICANN Board Resolution re Trademarks in New TLDs
Via the Intellectual Property Constituency of ICANN, we learn that hte Board has unanimously adopted the following resolution regarding the protection of trademarks in the proposed new top level domains:
“Whereas, based on the public comment submissions received regarding new gTLD draft applicant guidebook, ICANN staff has determined that the implementation issues involving trademark protection
Heller v. Design Within Reach (Bellini Chair)
Since 1998 plaintiff Heller has been selling in the US a chair designed by Mario Bellini. The chair has received various design awards and is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. Heller filed for and received trademark registration 3,270,850 for the shape of the Bellini chair:
Design Within Reach is
TTAB Says No Go On Santiago
TTABlog: TTAB Dismisses Claim Invoking Unsatisfiable Santiago Trademark Convention (The Santiago Convention requires certification by an ‘Inter-American Burea. Alas, there have been no IABs since 1949).
Variations of Logos
Fun To See How This Skittles Twitter Thing Turns Out
OK, your advertising company, quoting the whole cluetrain conversation thing, proposes that you change your homepage to a realtime reproduction of the Twitter search results configured for your brand. In other words, if someone tweets “I love BRAND”, it shows up on your home page within seconds.
What do you think? You know that the
Sheesh
DomainName Wire: Psion Wants Intel’s NETBOOK.COM Under Cybersquatting Statute