SKELETOR, evil lord of destruction, battles He-Man to be a Master of the Universe.  Mattel likely coined the name twenty years ago.  It’s a fair inference that when a third party registered skeletor.com, he was aware of Mattel’s rights in the name.  This UDRP decision for registrant shows however, that complainant’s lawyer has to do…

Details of Ben Edelman’s complaint filed today against N2H2, a filtering software provider here.  See also Donna’s article and interview with Ben at Copyfight and Declan McCulagh’s article at news.com.

Law.com’s list of IP counsel for Fortune 250 companies.  I’m outraged that two clients of mine on the list didn’t mention me.

Law.com article fretting about the Internet alowing for extra-territorial jurisdiction.  The fact pattern leading off the story (Italian authorities sat down at the defendant’s Italian computer to shut off the U.S.-hosted website) doesn’t give me nightmares.  Dave Farber’s fact pattern doesn’t either (if you are on notice that you have violated Australian law, skip the…

Apparently Worldcom’s claim that Internet traffic doubles every 100 days was untrue (this from the Economist).

Nominet panelist adopts the willing suspension of disbelief in giving credit to respondent’s version as to why scoobydoo.co.uk is a legitimate fan site and not an attempt to profit off the name.  Just ignore the fact that he sold merchandise from the site (before the demand letter), and the fact that he offered to sell…

Coca-Cola, Pepsi, the Washington Post and McDonalds moved for a TRO and Preliminary Injunction against William Purdy, an anti-abortion activits, who registered various domain names incorporating plaintiffs’ names, pointing them to anti-abortion information (including fund-raising information).  See July 16 entry below for more background.  Now plaintiffs have been granted the TRO and the injunction and…

See this cnn.com story.