SPYWARE WARRIOR, an anti-spyware blog, here.

Discussion of protectability of a listing of 18,000 items on an online grocer site.  Brief product descriptions may be protectable or maybe not.  Worthwhile reading if you sell more than one item on the web, and have to list them).

MyWebGrocer v. HomeTown Info Inc., no. 03-7909 (2d Cir. July 13, 2004)

The IPKat did a study of OHIM oppositions and notes the following.  Spanish and, to a lesser exent, German entities file CTM oppositions at seemingly high levels and asks why?

The INTA Listserv has a thread going this morning on set fee billing.  While I understand the movement toward set fee billing my stock line is that set fee billing is a gamble between the outside lawyer and the client, and if either side wins big, it isn’t healthy for the trusted counsel relationship.

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Trademark search firm NAMEPROTECT posts the demand letter it received from CCH CORESEARCH regarding alleged similarities in its @CTIVE VIEW product to CCH’s ADVANTAGE product.

The 2d Circuit frowns on the idea of awarding monetary damages under ACPA to domain names registered prior to ACPA’s enactment in 1999.  Note: the defendant in this case is not related to me and spells his last name differently.

Vermont Teddy Bear Company v. Schwimer, 03-7030 (2d Cir July 1 2004).

SCO, scourge of the LINUX world, has filed a trademark application for UNIX SYSTEMS LABORATORIES, which had been a registered mark belonging to, oddly enough, Unix System Laboratories.  As far as I can tell, the registration went from USL to Novell to X/Open, which let the thing lapse in 2000.

The folks at Slashdot and…

MSNBC article reporting a study where 28% of email users were fooled by email with fraudulent email addresses.