Estate of J.R.R. Tolkein wins domain name case regarding jrrtolkein.com here.

If Dr. Seuss wrote Lord of the Rings here.

Herman Miller settles trade dress case regarding AERON chair (left) and the Nightingale CXO (right), via PR Newswire.

The Ninth Circuit has reversed and remanded the District Court decision in Playboy v. Netscape, holding that Playboy did in fact state a good cause of action in arguing that search engines may be either infringing or diluting trademarks by selling keywords. 

Will this affect Yahoo’s stock price?  Google’s IPO?

Concurring decision takes well-deserved swipe…

Supreme Court denies cert in TONY TWIST case.  A set back for Larry David and others.

Third Circuit decision:  Established retail chain has opportunity to purchase huge shipment of GUCCI bags from a reputable distributor.  However, something made the retailer suspicious whether the bags wer genuine (the distributor told the retailer that the bags were diverted goods, that is to say, grey goods) so it investigated in two ways.  Without identifying why…

Chinese beverage company Yaqing, owner of the trademark KU HAI, has sued Coca Cola in the Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People’s Court, over Coke’s use of KU ER (also knwon as QOO), a fruit juice product.  This article in China Daily reports that KU HAI and KU ER are connotatively identical.

Budvar of the Czech Republic prevails over Anheuser Busch re the BUD mark in South Korea.  Via St. Louis Biz Journal here

Several Readers, including Dan Fingerman, alerted me to the results of this survey, consisting of asking consumers to draw logos from memory.