In 1976, Albert Brooks made a short film for Saturday Night Live parodying NBC’s new line-up of shows. One imaginary show was ‘The Three of Us,’ a sit-com about a threesome living together. Two years later, ABC came up with ‘Three’s Company.’ There’s a theory about CGI animation called The Uncanny Valley that hypothesizes that
Ron Coleman of Likelihood of Confusion fame successfully represents defendant in dismissing trademark complaint. Defendant, PissedConsumer.com, is a gripe site. Complaints about EXAMPLE are hosted at EXAMPLE.PISSEDCONSUMER.COM. See screenshot above. No likelihood of confusion, even initial interest confusion, because consumers here will not be lured to stop searching by a competing site.
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I’M Ollie. This is another instance where the absence of dogs on the CAFC led to a wrong result. Look at this reasoning, from page 12:
. . . the verbs “wag” and “beg” both suggest dog behavior, and in particular both convey the excitement exhibited by dogs during feeding. Although the Board acknowledged that
What is the significance? ICANN’s eccentricity is in part explained that it is ‘captured’ by the domain industry. With the advent of dot brands, real world players move toward the domain industry and the domain industry must now move toward the real world.
June 28, 2012
Dr. Steve Crocker, Chair – Board of Directors
Internet
Valideus, which assisted entities such as Amazon in the new GTLD process, created this Powerpoint of the new TLD applications:
New gTLD Reveal Day By the Numbers[3]
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I don’t dislike LeBron. And Bosh is cool because he actually looks like a raptor. But I’ve been rooting for OKC. Maybe because the team was built with good draft choices and not free agency. The thing that bothers me the most is that I think the officiating is a little disconcerting. IMHO, the number
Our firm, Leason Ellis, obtained a final consent agreement against USA Trademark Enterprises of Florida and Timea Csikos and Andras Nemeth (residents of Hungary), permanently enjoining the defendants from selling a catalog of trademark registrations. LE had alleged that defendants had engaged in false advertising and unfair competition by marketing the catalog to trademark registrants.
An interesting wrinkle in protecting against cybersquatting in an ‘open’ .BOOKS TLD: book titles qua book titles are not subject to trademark protection.
In the comedy ‘The Hangover: Part II,’ one character roughly moves another character’s luggage, and that character, whom we know to be a buffoon, says ‘Careful, that, that is a Lewis (sic) Vuitton.” (you can see the exchange beginning at approximately 1:40 in the clip above). LV gets a copy of the DVD, slows it
Editor’s Note: Google’s and Amazon’s TLD applications for certain ‘generic’ terms indicate they would be run as ‘closed’ registries, that is to say, third parties can’t own the names – all domain names would be the property of the registry operator. Various commentators (mostly aligned with the domain industry) have reacted negatively to this news.