This article describes an injunction obtained by Yakult (the famous Japanese maker of a Yogurt drink and owner of the Yakult Swallows) received against a competitor named Yakudo.  The injunction applies to Hong Kong, which is a separate jursidction from the PRC (for now).  The article goes on to discuss the larger prize –…

China has stopped re-directing requests to Google although, according to this article from siliconvalley.com, China doesn’t acknowledge that it ever did in the fist place).

 I thought I was going to write about 9/11 today but that has turned out not to be the case.  This morning I received an email from a colleague with the subject “Al Fross.”  Al has had cancer for four years now, so I knew my colleague was writing to tell me Al…

This time involving falwell.com (via news.com).

Ben Edelman of Harvard (see prior references) has been tracking the Chinese government’s attempts to block access to Google.  The latest turn in this saga is that the PRC government, it appears, is re-directing traffic intended for Google to other search engines.  Ben has produced a report with screen shots which I undertand to…

AFLAC is of the view that a white duck quacking functions as its trademark.  While annoying, the AFLAC duck is a big success and does good works.  Via AP, we learn that AFLAC has protested the use of a white duck quacking on a website at www.taftquack.com promoting the candidate opposing Governor Taft of…

Via Copyfight, an interpretation of the term “mirror-site.”

Update: and then, seconds later, I see a Google version of the same joke, via Doc Searls.

The latest affirmation from the Federal Circuit that single titles of books do not function as trademarks.  Even though a party sold a million copies of THE CROSSWORD COMPANION to Walmart in 1993, 1993 would only serve as its date of first trademark use of the term if it published another book in a series…