According to AP, Western Kentucky University has sued Mediaset, a media company owned by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in Rome, alleging that Mediaset’s Gabibbo character (left) infringes its Big Red mascot.  The article reports that the creator of the Gabibbo character admitted in an interview to copying the character.

The publisher of BREAKING THE DA VINCI CODE has agreed to place a sticker on its cover indicating that it is a critique of THE DA VINCI CODE.  Via MSNBC.

INTA’s book “Trademarks Law and the Internet” has now been updated.  The book is edited by Neal Greenfield (who is affiliated with SchwimmerLegal, helping clients, among other things, manage their domain names); and Lisa Cristal (who comes by here for lunch sometimes).  I co-authored a chapter for the supplement entitled “UDRP Trends” with…

Alleging that working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by ducks, Verisign has sued ICANN for screwing with it once too often.  Story here, links to complaint part 1 and part 2.

Duck quote in this article.

Press Release announcing that Zuccarini (background here) will receive 30 months in prison for violating the Truth in Domain Names Act.

At least two of the domain names mentioned in the press release, DINSEYLAND.COM and BOBTHEBIULDER.COM appear to have been registered by third parties and are pointing to pages of links.

How Google’s results compare to those of Yahoo’s when the search term is NIKE, via Langreiter.com.  Thanks to Greg for this.

A judge has ruled that a lawyer should be awarded $300/hour for his courtroom work, but only $150/hour for his written work, which was “‘careless’ and ‘laden with typographical errors.'”  Via NYLawyer.

ICANN intends to decide on the domain name Wait List Service in its upcoming Rome meeting.  Via eWeek, more here and here.