This NY Post article, reporting the sale of the New Jersey Nets to a rich Brooklyn person Bruce Rattner, who intends to move the team to Brooklyn, mentions that the New Jersey Sports Authority will ask the NBA to allow it to keep the name NEW JERSEY NETS (lucky for them that Nassau County

Strange article in the Wall Street Journal on Friday in the Informed Patient column.  The column discusses medication errors and although the major graphic is a box of  ‘some common drug name mix-ups’ (such as ZYRTEC and ZYPREXA and CELEBREX and CELEXA), there is no way to determine if this is in fact a major problem, as

Contrary opinions are coming in response to my question regarding innocent infringement.  To recap: a retailer is unsure if a batch of goods is counterfeit.  It asks a clerk in the trademark owner’s outlet store, who (erroneously) states that they are genuine.  The retailer also submits the goods to the trademark owner’s repair department

Defendant can continue to sell round thermostats, Seventh Circuit not accepting for purposes of preliminary relief, Honeywell’s argument, in part, that what once was functional, may today be merely ornamental.

Eco Manufacturing v. Honeywell, 03-2704 (7th Circuit Dec 31, 2003).