According to this release, the judge in the CITY OF HEROES litigation (background here) has dismissed certained trademark claims brought by Marvel against the provider of a multi-player online role-playing game that allowed users to create superhero ‘avatars.’  He also took Marvel to task for certain ‘false and sham’ exhibits and allegations (…

John Berryhill on Domain Name Valuation (originally posted to the INTA list):

There is no shortage of self-styled “domain name appraisers” which use formulas relating to length, common word frequency, etc., but if “lawyer.com” is worth $4M, is “goodlawyer.com” worth more or less than that?

Sedo.com and Afternic.com are probably the top two domain marketplace

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The EEJD Blog – “Where Law and Technology Meet”

Law Tech Review from Barry Bayer.

InternetCases.com from Evan Brown.

Apparently the blogosphere woke up yesterday about the bankruptcy bill.

The last ditch effort to derail the bill has begun.

Instapundit quotes one bankruptcy attorney:

“For instance, if a client lies to me about assets and they are later discovered by the trustee or a creditor, I am personally on the hook. There are

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Walter Mossberg, tech columnist of the WSJ, on Google Auto-Link:

I’ve had long conversations about this with senior Google officials, and they say they are actively considering changing the way the AutoLink feature works so it might not actually alter the Web pages themselves. They note that the feature is a work in progress.

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Law.com article on IP issues in Sports including the koan: who owns a player’s statistics?

This is not about trademark law, it’s about politics and the blogosphere.

To over-simplify, a thesis of the book “What Is the Matter With Kansas” is that blue-collar voters in this country are duped over and over again by the Republican party.  The candidates campaign on ‘values’ (this time around, gay marriage), but they…

Our Israeli trademark and copyright lawyer friend Ellen, writes to report:

“In a surprising and controversial ruling likely to be appealed, Israel Tel Aviv District Court held that a commercial website that copies job opportunity listings from the classified ads of major Israel newspapers, does not violate any copyright held by the newspapers.  Judge Zaft…