OK, it’s no longer trade secret information: With the help of the good people at Corante, a bunch of us (Bag and Baggage, Inter Alia, Ernie the Attorney and Dennis Kennedy, have started a new blog entitled Between Lawyers, which will be about lawyering.
We’ve started two threads so
Background here.
It’s an almost Spring-like weekend here in beautiful Westchester and I ask you: Would the Trademark Dilution Revision Act change the outcome of the Barbie Girl (“Both sides are advised to chill“) case? Why, why not, good, bad? I ask because the ‘non-commercial’ clause on which Barbie Girl hinges, is being changed.
A number of readers came here today after putting TRADE DRESS as a search term into Google. I suspect it was because Instapundit ran a piece today entitled “Trade Dress Matters” in which he says that he was intending to purchase the Norelco Rechargeable Shaver (pictured) and instead, because he was in a hurry
Yahoo announces Creative Commons search engine, allowing search for material available for non-commercial use.
Wired article on Apple v. Blogger trade secret disclosure issue arguing that focus is not whether a blogger is a journalist but instead the tension between trade secret and journalists’ shield doctrines.
Here is an article consisting of a first-hand account how a news site removed AFP from its site in order to still be included in the Google News index (background here). Irony: When I view this article in IE (but not in Firefox), the contextual ads from Google obscure the first two parapgraphs. Hat tip Eric.
WIPO has released ” WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views of Selected UDRP Cases.” Your questions regarding the UDRP:
1. First UDRP Element
1.1 Does ownership of a registered trademark to which the domain name is confusingly similar automatically satisfy the requirements under paragraph 4(a)(i) of the UDRP?
1.2 Is the content of a
Detroit Free Press article regarding Nissan, source of the INFINITI Q45, suing Audi over its use of Q5 and Q7. The artcile quotes me about the ‘family of marks’ argument, where if a trademark owner can show that a common prefix or suffix in a series of marks has source-indicating power, than it could prevent