Article on law blogs which proves that Ernie the Attorney is more popular than the ‘best’ law firm websites.
Tidbit arising out of my own insecurity: while my links pale in comparison to those of Ernie, this site also has more inbound links than those of the sites listed in the article.
Aside: Actual traffic
According to this article, Colgate Palmolive, owner of, among other products, SOFTSOAP liquid hand soap, is suing Blue Cross Labs, producer of, among other products, SMOOTHSOAP liquid hand soap, for trademark and trade dress infringement.
Plainitff Shire manufactures and sells ADDERALL which is prescribed for ADHD. It moved to enjoin defendant Barr Lab’s generic alternative on the grounds that it infringed Shire’s trade dress in the shape and color of the pill. The Third Circuit affirmed the refsual of the motion for preliminary injunction 
because Shire did not establish that
Via BNA, a MSNBC article reporting that, Bonzi, an online advertiser, settled a lawsuit, apparently brought by a class-action law firm, regarding its advertisements which mimic a Windows dialogue box and state that your computer is broadcasting an IP address. The advertiser agreed in an order entered in Washington state court that:
Future Bonzi
Via NameProtect, an article on WD-40 protesting slippery Texas Democrats referring to themselves as the WD-40s. Another article here.
WD-40’s slogan is “We Live Under The Sink, In The Garage and in the Toolboxes of the World.”
Attorney General Ashcroft is credited with popularizing the expression that you only need two things in life
Decent article from BusinessWeek Online explaining how registering a corporate name and registering a domain name alone, do not create protectable trademark rights.
Dave Weinberger on domain names, personal names and Google URLs, via The Guardian.
The Register on Google pulling ‘negative’ adwords regarding UK retailer Dixons. There is also a subscriber-only article on the matter from the Australian Financial Review. Background here.
Federal Circuit case reversing and remanding the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board rejection of a trademark application: A geographically mis-descriptive mark will be rejected if the PTO shows that mis-descriptiveness was material to the public’s decision to buy the product (which it did not in this case). I might care if my Tillamook Chedder isn’t
Pecorino Romano, literally ‘sheep’s milk from Rome,’ is one of the more popular grating cheeses in the world. Eaten by Romulus himself, PECORINO ROMANO is a Protected Designation of Origin in Europe and a Certification Mark in the U.S., where the Pecorino Romano consortium certifes that the cheese must conform to the following:
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