FatWallet has announced a partial victory in its tussle with Wal-Mart over FatWallet’s dissemination of Wal-Mart’s post-Thanksgiving prices (background here and here. 

 I hope that some of the parties will make public some of the papers in this case, specifically those which shed light on Wal-Mart’s theory that the prices in the circular were…

As previously mentioned, CBS, owner of rights in The Survivor TV show, is suing ABC and Granada TV, which intend to broadcast a show entitled “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.”  Here, via Amlaw, is the Complaint.  Of interest is the cause of action alleging that the show has a famous…

This Orlando Biz Journal article is getting a lot of linkage for its coverage a lawsuit brought against ICANN barring it from utilizing “sunrise” provisions – means by which holders of registered trademarks could register.info domain names corresponding to those trademarks, before the rank and file could get their hands on those names.

You have…

A business owner wrote a small business advisor in the Sacramento Bee:

As a new home-based business owner, I would like to find out more about searching and registering a trademark for my new Web service. I plan to sell ethnic food over the Internet and want to ensure my brand as well as avoid

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In response to parodies of its “Switcher” ads which flood the Web, Apple offers its own,

The top ten brand names used as search terms on Google in the month of October are:

Source: Google Zeitgeist

The Raysan Trademark firm of Iran sends me its newsletter.  Its website reports three recent victories by Western trademark owners.  ARMANI triumphed over ARMAN for shoes.  FABER-CASTELL cancelled a somewhat similar logo for stationery products.  NESTLE appears to have exclusive rights in designs of birds in nests.

By the way, this is not legal…

Ethan Katsh, professor and member of the UDRP Task Force, has drafted a proposal for refinement of databases containing UDRP decisions, to allow in effect for keynote-style searching.  While I think he is a little too harsh on the status quo of UDRP databases, his proposal is worthwhile and the document itself is an invaluable…