Further coverage on the Register.com takeover battle.  Say one thing: entrust managment of your name portfolio to a law firm, you don’t worry about staff being distracted by takeover battles.  Partner defections, maybe, takeover battles, no.  Interesting quote:

“They’re incredibly difficult people to deal with, and that’s one of the big problems when it

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Suppose you grow grapes for a living and you believe that your grapes are better than everybody else’s grapes.  In fact, you spend a lot of money branding your grapes so that people will choose your grapes, not just anybody’s grapes.

Now here comes the state telling you that you have to contribute money to some…

Cert has been denied in Mattel v. MCA, the Barbie Girl case, in which Mattel, owner of rights in the BARBIE doll (“the American girl with the fictitious figure”) protested a song entitled BARBIE GIRL.  The Ninth Circuit decision (background and text here) had concluded with the admonition that both sides should

Only lawyers may make ex parte communications to the Commisioner of the Patent and Trademark Office.  Governor Jeb Bush is not a lawyer, he is the brother of the man who appoints the Commissioner of the Patent and Trademark Office.  According to this Washington Post story (additional background here), he wrote a letter to…

Via IcannWatch.  Verisign proposes to charge a $85 wholesale price to registrars when registrants renew after the domain name has expired, but before the end of the redemption grace period.  Now there are no additional charges for renewing late. 

Undeservedly short answer to the excellent questions asked by Ernie the Attorney here:

Denise does not likely have nationwide common law trademark rights in the term BLAWG even though she coined it because, as far as I know, she does not use it as a trademark.  Specifically, she uses BLAWG to describe the class of blogs…

The judge in the LINDOWS csae has dismissed Lindows.com’s motion for summary judgment, ruling that it is a disputed factual issue as to whether WINDOWS was the generic term for “graphical computer operating environment” software.  Text of order here.  The case now goes to trial in April.

A key holding in Part VI of the…

 When I met InstaPundit at a conference in November, I shamefully admitted to him that I didn’t know what ‘fisking’ meant.  He patiently explained that it is a line-by-line analysis of a piece. This article appeared in today’s NY Times.  You will have to forgive my knee-jerk reaction to any article which contains the quote…