Three things have been annoying me about the DAVEZILLA mess. The first is that I can’t get the Blue Oyster Cult song out of my head every time I read something on this.
The second thing is that the news accounts aren’t precise. The demand letter doesn’t say that DAVEZILLA infringes GODZILLA. The letter alleges that…
Sixth Circuit decision: THERMOSCAN for hand-held ear thermometers, not confusingly similar to THERMA-SCAN for thermal-imaging diagnostic services. Emphasis on disparity of marketing channels for the finding.
In a Southern District of New York decision, TOMMY HILFIGER has failed to enjoin use of TIMMY HOLEDIGGER, a parody cologne for pets. The decision has not been posted as of yet, but the analysis of the parody defense to infringement and tarnishment in the case of a competitive product, should be of interest
Of immediate…
Dean Peters maintains the healyourchurchwebsite.com, committed to ” teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design” and “constantly challenging churches to have a better web presence.” Dean provided some advice on obtaining domain names today and he makes some points of both secular and sacred significance.
1. Register the variants of your “guessable”…
Not trademark law but I couldn’t resist raising my hand in class:
Dave wonders aloud:
“What is the origin of the word “trust” in the context of “anti-trust” or “trust-busters.” What does it have to do with the word trust, as in “trustworthy computing.”
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Teddy Roosevelt, the trust-buster, targeted “trusts”…
[This is the 1 second delay dubbed English version of the original blurb in Japanese]. This via Politech. Toho, owner of the GODZILLA mark, has sent a demand letter to Dave Linabury, who maintains the DAVEZILLA humor website. I repeat my advice from a prior post (so profound that it was repeated on Instapundit…
Here is an editorial via Dave from the News-Record of North Carolina on the proposed Berman/Coble “hacking” bill (See here for text of bill). Interesting quote that the bill:
“would give record companies and other entertainment industries the right to invade our personal computers, based merely on the suspicion that we might have illegally
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If you like sport logos, then all you can say about this site is: wow, this is cool.
Inverizon is a Missouri company providing agricultural services. When Bell Atlantic announced that it was adopting VERIZON as a housemark, Inverizon got in line and sent Verizon a demand letter. After Verizon responded, Inverizon left Verizon on indefinite hold. The Declaratory Judgment Act is intended to end such limbos so Verizon filed a DJ action…
This Seattle article reports a lawsuit by one political action group against another, over use of the term TRANSPORTATION CHOICES.