NY Times article (free sub required) on client conflicts, including one in a copyright case involving Michael Bolton and the song “Love Is A Wonderful Thing.”
Practice pointer: Remember, an insurance company and the insured are adverse parties.
False or True But Misleading
More from Spinsanity on false and misleading statements from both sides in the presidential election campaign.
Resurrected Brands
Brandchannel on brands being revived by new owners, IRIDIUM and ATARI being examples.
Anti-Piracy Initiatives
The US Government has announced the Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy, or STOP – a series of IP protection initiatives. One provision will allow the IP owner to obtain an injunction barring importation of an infringing item from any port, not, as is the case now, only the District Court for the jurisdiction where the port
CECIL McBEE: Did Trap Sales Create Personal Jurisdiction?
Sometime after the jazz musician Cecil McBee played in Japan for the first time, someone opened a CECIL McBEE clothing store there and now it’s a successful chain. McBee has sued in Japan under a theory of right of personality, with mixed success. A front page article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the on-going
An Odd Way Of Getting Customer Service Threatens Click-Wraps
A lawyer had problem getting AOL software to work, then he trouble getting through to customer service. So he sued AOL in small claims court in New York. AOL tried to enforce a choice of forum clause in its ‘click-wrap’ agreement. The judge declined to enforce the clause. The lawyer claims that he indicated to AOL
Journal Article on Domain Proxy Services
Front page article in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “New Services Are Making It Easier To Hide Who Is Behind Web Sites” (paid sub required), describing the rise of domain proxy services to shield whois data. I don’t think that proxy services are inherently evil – the services tend to cooperate with legitimate requests from
WIPO Starts Process To Revise Trademark Law Treaty
Press release re WIPO conveining a diplomatic confernece to streamline trademark registration procedure and revise the Trademark LAw Treaty. Start making a list of your pet peeves.
While My Trademark Lawyer Gently Weeps, continued
Speculation re that Apple Computers will pay massive settlement to Apple Records for use of APPLE in connection with iTunes, via MacWorld.
Faking It
This BBC article reports that half of all pills labeled as VIAGRA sold over the Internet are counterfeit. What astounds me is that half of the VIAGRA pills sold online are real.