Coverage on Amazon’s proposed search engine from AtNewYork.com, SmartMoney.com, and InfoWorld
Nike vs. FIFA re USA 2003
Two of my favorite subjects, trademark litigation and soccer, in one story. Nike has sought a declaration of non-infringment of the mark USA 2003, apparently in response to demands from soccer’s governing body, FIFA, that it owned exclusive rights in the term in relation to soccer. FIFA has previosuly established rights in terms such as France
Legal Analysis of SiteFinder
Legal analysis of ICANN/Verisign contracts via ICANNWatch suggesting that ICANN has limited ability to stop SiteFinder, should it want to do so.
IPKAT on Trademark Mediation
Owners of Dewey Decimal System Sues Library Hotel Over Trademark
AP reports that the owner of the Dewey Decimal Classification System has sued the Library Hotel (a hotel overlooking New York’s Public Library) over its use of the Dewey Decimal System to number its hotel rooms (for example Room 700.003 has books on the performing arts), arguing that the use of the system falsely suggests
Recommendation for Spam Filter Software
I downloaded SpamNet today, from www.cloudmark.com, and so far it’s batting 1.000 in stopping spam.
IAB Calls On Verisign To Suspend SiteFinder
The Internet Architecture Board’s Commentary on “Architectural Concerns on the Use of DNS Wildcards” raises several points regarding implications of Verisign’s deployment of the SiteFinder services.
1. SiteFinder affects many applications other than the Web, including Email.
2. SiteFinder disables various spam filters.
3.. SiteFinder disables foreign language error screens, replacing them with
ICANN Asks Verisign To Suspend SiteFinder Pending Review
From the ICANN website:
Advisory Concerning VeriSign’s Deployment of DNS Wildcard Service
On 15 September 2003, VeriSign deployed a “wildcard” service into the .com and .net Top Level Domain zones. VeriSign’s wildcard creates a registry-synthesized address record in response to lookups of domains that are not otherwise present in the zone (including restricted names, unregistered
LV Bondage Masks?
Apparently there was a lawsuit, quickly settled, involving the use of the LOUIS VUITTON mark on bondage masks and genital cuffs. Coverage here and here (NY Times reg. req.).
Now when someone Google’s ‘genital cuffs,’ this site will rank highly. Great.
A review of Spinal Tap’s Smell The Glove album here.
BTW, someone’s actually
It's Friday, Quitting Time
Via Andrew Sullivan, this has nothing whatsoever with trademark law or anything else for that matter.