If you filed multiple applications for a .BIZ domain name prior to September 25, 2001, you may be eligible for partial refunds of your application fees, according to this notice of settlement of the class action on the Neulvel site.  The deadline for acting is February 28, 2003.

Good article in the NY Times (free online subscription version here) on the trademark dispute between Microsoft and Lindows, in which Lindows, in response to MS’ allegation that LINDOWS infringes WINDOWS, apparently is seeking to get a holding that WINDOWS does not function as a legally protectable trademark.  Note the ‘legally protectable’ bit.  It…

On the whole, I have not seen too many trademark decisions involving AOL user names.  My guess is that if someone was using [famous trademark]@aol.com, a letter to AOL might do the trick.  In any event, there has been a Northern District of Texas case in which the owner of the trademark EMC MORTGAGE received a…

The NY Times today reports on Professor Jospeh Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication at the U of Penn., whose upcoming book on the Internet (MIT Press) will conspicuously not use an Initial Cap when discussing the internet, uh, Internet.  His argument is that the Internet has become a part of the ‘everyday universe’…

I just received spam beginning:

Dear Info.  We wish you a Merry Christmas.

And what should we look out for in 2003?  Write me at marty@schwimmerlegal.com and give me your nominations (don’t say “The decisions in Eldred and Victor’s Little Secret cause I already have those on the list).

Justice Jacob of theUK will refer to the ECJ whether the shape of Unilver’s VIENETTA ice cream is a registrable as a trademark.  My legal assistant, apparently a fan of the prduct, has offerred to testify on Unilver’s behalf, that she would be able to identify the product’s origin by shape alone.

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Jennifer Lopez’ GLOW BY J.LO scent has apparently survived a preliminary injunction action brought by Glow Industries.