This Dept. of Commerce press release is pretty remarkable in its candor regarding its disappointment with ICANN, while simultaneously renewing its agreement with ICANN for a year (alternatives would have been transitioning control of the DNS to ICANN, or firing it and starting from scratch.  Neither alternative was plausible).

There’s something here for everyone who…

U.S. Budwesier vs. Czech Budvar saga continues, this time in New Zealand.

Wired’s interview with Prof. Lessig.  October 9 he argues Eldred before the Supremes.

Via pbs.org, a profile of BayTSP, which helps the copyright industry find illegal file-sharing and perhaps helps the FBI findAl-Qaida’s steganography.

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Nasdaq has changed its name from the initial cap Nasdaq to NASDAQ “for the sake of consistency with our logo and our brand identity.”  Brand consultant as caps lock button.  The brand identity is suffering – the term NASDAQED is being used in the media as a synonym…

Not trademark but of interest: A Canadian farmer was sued by Monsanto for using herbicide-resistant canola patented by Monsanto.  His (unsuccessful) defense was that the Monsanto seeds blew into his field.  Via Slashdot.

For those of you handling UDRP cases involving the names of stadiums, UDRPLAW.NET has compiled a list of all of them.

Here is a press release and depiction of the new certification logo by which record copanies will indicate that the CD contains anti-copying technology.