AP Reports that Uncle Tony the Magician and 20 other Brazilian magicians successfully sued TV Globo for airing a progran that revealed how magicians perform magic tricks.  Plaintiffs alleged that their revenue decreased by 70% because many people lost interest in magic after learning how the tricks were performed.  Link via Weirdofthenews.

Trademark dispute regarding slogans for labor lawyers reported here.

Via Brandweek,  Infogrames, maker of video games such as ‘Enter the Matrix,’ has changed its name to Atari. Atari means ‘success’ or ‘luck’ in Japanese. 

The Atari History Museum is here.

I was watching a movie with (in my view) an excessive number of ‘product placements,’ and was reminded of this recent decision in Germany  prohibiting pop-up ads, reportedly on the rationale that they force ‘the user to take without notice.’  Could this rationale be applied to product placements in movies exhibited in Germany?

OK, Japan took their online database down for the weekend and that screwed up the metasearch for a while.  The metasearch is back up, minus Japan. 

The Register on side efects of self-help policing infringement on peer to peer networks.

They won’t announce attendance figures for a while but it seemed as if many many corporations and firms did not allow their people to attend the International Trademark Association annual meeting in Amsterdam.  The fact that Hong Kong is now identified as Hong Kong, SAR (special adminstrative region) on people’s badges was one more annoyance for…

This is the first item I’ve ever posted from Baku Today, regarding the LUX trademark, to be used in connection with chicken, dairy products, ice cream, and a ‘new sort of beer.’