If you’ve read my article in The Trademark Reporter, you’re aware of my obsession with intermediate liability cases. We discuss at length the Akanoc decision in which three defendants, including a California web hosting company, was hit with $32 million plus in damages, for not taking down websites devoted to selling counterfeit goods.
The
From the Irish Times article:
RUGBY WORLD Cup 2011 opens today with hosts New Zealand taking on the Pacific Islands side Tonga in Auckland. The event is the showpiece of rugby union and will be one of the top sporting events in the world this year. With more than one million spectators due to
Twitter attempted to register the mark TWEETS and it was blocked by defendant’s registration for: LET YOUR AD MEET TWEETS. Twitter moves in district court to cancel the registration. There is no infringement cause.
Complaint Twitter Meet Tweets(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”;
I took my family to the Arsenal-Manchester United game in Manchester:
Before the game, we went to the Man Utd megastore in the stadium:
I bought my wife a Man Utd red devil hat because it was so cold:
Outside Old Trafford (Man Utd’s stadium) there were vendors selling ‘game day’ scarves:
The vendors stood
My partner Yuval Marcus and I will be participating in a panel on domain names and online trademark enforcement at a presentation from Westchester-Fairfield chapter of ACCA, in Stamford, CT, Tuesday September 13:
THE LATEST LEGAL STRATEGIES FOR
o PROTECTING and PROMOTING YOUR TRADEMARKS ONLINE,
o ONLINE ENFORCEMENT
o SOCIAL MEDIA, KEY WORD ADVERTISING and
Zeeray sues Airwick claiming trade dress in ‘drop of liquid’ or ‘drop of juice’ hanging air fresheners.
Complaint Sdny Juice Airwick Trade Dress(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();
From here.
The Chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush left in July to join a company that will advise TLD applicants. Now ICANN has announced that the CEO, Rod Beckstrom, will be leaving when his contract runs out next July. Here’s scuttlebutt suggesting that he was pushed.
Harvard Lampoon (which spawned such luminaries as John Updike, George Plimpton, Conan O’Brien and Michael Gordon), has incontestable registrations for LAMPOON, one with a first use date of 1876. However, its registrations were all obtained after registrant’s creation date of LAMPOON.COM of 1998. Also, the Harvard Lampoon shares the register with the NATIONAL LAMPOON, also
First read this UDRP in which Elite Investment Portfolio prevails by default over EliteFTS.com. Note in particular complainant’s allegations regarding respondent’s website.
Now read this complaint, brought by EliteFTS, after the appeal period for the UDRP has run. Note in particular paragraphs 27 on, in which EliteFTS alleges that all notice of the UDRP was