Suggested best practices for search engines, via Searchenginewatch.com.  Suggestions include avoidance of the sale of trademarks as keywords, and proper disclosure of paid results.

Nathan has hooked up Japan to the absolutely free Schwimmerlegal International Trademark Metasearch.  You can now conduct a combined dead-hit search from the trademark registries of the U.S., Canada,  Madrid (WIPO), EC (CTM) and Japanese databases.  I tested out the Japanese database with DRAGONBALL Z, TOYOTA, YOMIURI GIANTS, POCARI SWEAT and KONAMI (purveyor of YU-GI-OH!)…

Important domain name case from Seventh Circuit  (decision by Posner, J.) upholding use of bargainbeanies.com by third party (analysis to follow): Ty v. Perryman.

UPDATE:  You can use the domain name BARGAINBEANIES.COM if you are really selling bargain Beanies.  You cannot use it to sell competitive plush bean-bag animals.  Also, if you get caught…

The mainstream press coverage of the Supreme Court hearing on the Eldred copyright term extension case illustrated here with a cnn.com piece.

The man whose only tool is a hammer sees nothing but nails and I see nothing but the trademark ramifications of copyright expiration.

Interesting statistics about search engines, including audience share (Yahoo wins), via searchenginewatch.com.  Grading search engines for relevancy (Yahoo wins), via Fortune.com.  I learned of both articles through searchengineblog.com.

The Onion on the RIAA’s move to stop radio (satire indicator on).

KPMG Consulting announced its name change to BearingPoint yesterday.  It appears to have filed for the trademark in various countries (see metasearch) and secured broad domain name coverage for BEARINGPOINT, BEARINGPOINTE and BEARING-POINT in .com, .net, .info, .biz, .us and .uk in July and August.  I know that things done right make for less interesting…

This time UPS sues Gator for pop-up ads.  Previous Blog item here.