ESPN on Stadium Naming Rights.

Yahoo v. Google in patent suit re auctioning ads through keyword sales.  Via Mercury News, via BlogBook.

Report of counterfeit PEARL RIVER BRIDGE SOY SAUCE in Hong Kong here.

PEARL RIVER BRIDGE SOY SAUCE itself available here.

Alton Brown of Good Eats on Real Soy Sauce here (See Scene 9).

Go to the US PTO search and type in LOW CARB.

Ziff-Davis article alleging that the new anti-spyware/adware tool distributed by Yahoo, does not identify Claria (Gator) or WhenU, implying that this may be due to Yahoo’s commercial relations with those companies. 

Claria and WhenU dispute that their products are ‘spyware’ (and Claria has litigated the point). For what it’s worth I note the following.

Article via travelbiz.com.au reporting that the Australian government paid approximately $138,000 (any currency conversion error would be mine) for the domain name TOURISMAUSTRALIA.COM.

Via Pizza Marketing Quarterly, various Little Caesar’s franchisees used unapproved pepperoni and cheese, thus allegedly breaching their franchise agreement, and Little Caesar’s sued for trademark infringement.

From a video game fan blog named CUBE-EUROPE.COM, an article commenting upon names that Nintendo has registered in Japan.  Given the widespread dissemination of free online trademark registries, a company’s trademark filings are now easily discernable not only to one’s competitiors but to one’s customers as well.

UPDATE:  Another video game company responds to…