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Two different issue in this NY Lawyer article: (1) Rightsholders in WHAT HAPPENS HERE, STAYS HERE is suing the owner of registrations for WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, STAYS IN VEGAS; (2) The advertising agency that created the WHAT HAPPENS HERE slogan is the owner of the slogan and not the client, the…

More on the Wayback Machine/DMCA matter here via Discourse.net.

Australian decision re when linking to a site can constitute authorization of copyright infringement.  Note comment that press reports of this case are overstating linking liability.

ABA Roundtable on ‘The Future of Legal Blogging’ in which my fellow ‘Between Lawyers’ bloggers and I prognosticate.

Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act prohibits registrations of, among other things, material that brings people into contempt or disrepute. 

A women motorcyclist organization applied for trademark registration of DYKES ON BIKES (stating a date of first use of 1976).

The examining attorney issued a preliminary refusal stating:

. . . . the proposed mark consists

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Interesting CAFC decision reversing TTAB decision on STEELBUILDING.COM

Must-read post from Prof. Patry on a DMCA suit against the adminstrators of the Internet Archive, popularly known as the Wayback Machine.

From the first paragraph:  “This is such an extraordinary document that I will break with my usual practice of not commenting on complaints or motions.”

Google has prevailed in a UDRP action regarding the names GOOGKLE.COM, GHOOGLE.COM, GFOOGLE.COM abd GOOIGLE.COM.  All of these terms pulls up a ‘were you looking for Google’? prompt on MSN search.

NAF press release here.