The Scotsman helpfully reports that two thirds of the Scottish Football League teams have not registered their trademarks, including premier league club Dunfermline. Words to a trademark attorney’s ears:
It would cost as little as £200 to register with the patent office. Yet the 27 clubs that have not registered will find it more difficult
Perine Lowe, manufacturer of A BLOCK TO GROW ON ceramic bank prevails against Dolly, Inc., manufacturer of BABY’S KEEPSAKE CERAMIC BANK in trade dress case in Central District of California. Prevailing party press release here.
Mattel has announced that it has received a decision from the High Court of Justice in London holding that Simba Toys MY STYLE dolls infringes the Community Design rights in of Mattel’s MY SCENE dolls. Simba must recall the infringing dolls and pay Mattel interim damages of approximately $1 million. Via Yahoo.
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A California man has been convicted of selling countefeit Compaq computer memory modules. He is facing a fine of up to $4 million and up to 20 years in prison. Via The LA Times..
Wrapping up its meeting in Carthage, ICANN has released this “Broad Strategic Initiative for Top Level Domains.” The press release promises reviews, reports. assessments, and new specialized TLDs in 2004.
Meanwhile, an Economist article on Google and paid search, claims that “All told, 75% of referrals to websites now originate from Google’s algorithms.”
IPKat on trademark fonts here.
The U.S. Trademark Office has posted Exam Guide No. 2-03, Guide to Implementation of Madrid Protocol in the U.S. (Oct. 28 2002).
Following in the footsteps of Tertullian and Donat, heretical ICANN Board member Amadeu Abril i Abril writes to us from Carthage, in The Punic Words, his blog on the ICANN conference.
More on the ICANN meetings here, here and here.
Discussion of Punic Wars here.
Today’s Guest Blogger is Lisa Dubrow, of Dubrow & Charne, an advertising law firm in New York (212-865-0200), who has these thoughts on online privacy of consumer data and the recent settlement between the New York AG and Victoria’s Secret:
Would you want the world to know what you purchased from Victoria’s Secret? Well if
