When read quickly, the first paragraph of this article:
“The Oakland Raiders have asked a judge to prevent the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers from wearing their uniforms for games in California because they violate the Raiders’ trademark rights.”
suggests an absurd image.
Spalding has announced that it will sell its non-golf business to Russell Athletic. This article says that the sale will include ownership of the SPALDING name for those sporting goods, making SPALDING one of the better known split-ownership marks.
The article does not mention the SPALDEEN mark. If you grew up in New York City, then
TechLawAdvisor’s explanation as to why Sony dropped the SHOCK AND AWE game is dubious.
The Abu-Ghazaleh firm on Iraqi trademark law.
The domain dossier takes a string and searches the whois of the major TLDs (com, net, org, info and biz). It reveals that domains names beginning with JESSICALYNCH, PFCJESSICALYNCH and PFCLYNCH are pretty much all gone by now. Other people named Jessica Lynch (presumably) registered jessicalynch.com and jessicalynch.net previously. The rest got snapped up on April 2 or
The Wall Street Journal has an article entitled “Tool Traps Poachers of Web Names” in which they give a nice plug to BrandCrawler, a service from BulkRegister. Last Thursday’s Journal mentioned GenuOne’s product (discussed here previously). I’m of several minds (and have various conflicts) when discussing tools which allow for policing or searching
Eugene Volokh via Slate on why Pfc. Jessica Lynch, like Zelig, doesn’t own the rights to her own life.
Explain-o-joke: In Zelig, the main character sells the rights to his life story to a movie studio. There’s a lawsuit and in the settlement, he only gets back the boring parts.
An article from Slate on the fake Puma ad and a different way of looking at tarnishment – subviral marketing.
Initial Interest Confusion (IIC) is, imho, one of the key doctrines in the treatment of trademarks on the Internet. If a user is diverted to a website through the unauthorized use of a trademark (in a domain name, meta-tag or some other method), but any confusion is dispelled prior to purchase, is that trademark infringment
Drudge Report article on Marvel suing Sony over rights to Spiderman