Defendant law firm utilizes plaintiff’s name as keywords, meta-tags and in website text, in order to solicit potential clients to sue plaintiff (which is a debt collector). All counts (infringement, unfair competition and dilution) dismissed on the pleadings as defendant’s use was held to be nominative fair use (without the court referring to it as
UDRP: ROVER Fails in UDRP v. MOUNTAINROVERS COM
Mountain Rovers, Inc holds on to MOUNTAINROVERS.COM (which it’s been using since 1998, apparently to import ROVERS and provide ROVER-accessories (and ‘refurbished’ ROVERS)). Panelist finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking.
Secretaries of State Comment on .INC, .LLC, .LLP and .CORP
The National Association of Secretaries of State is an organization of the Secretaries of State of the 50 states. They’re concerned that .INC, .LLC, .LLP or .CORP domains might be issued to entities that didn’t have those actual business registrations.
In 1998 there were various requests for comments with regard to increasing the name space.
ET Browne v L’Oreal re EVENTONE
et browne even tone
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Almost Caught Up On @TrademarkBlog Tweets
Does linking to content infringe copyright?: http://t.co/IKJKlIOjGF (a post of mine at the @infolawgroup blog)
— Evan Brown (@internetcases) August 10, 2013
Lionsgate, Ex-Model Settle Feud Over 'Mad Men' Credits: Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. has settled a lawsuit wi… http://t.co/TUdiixSBYU
— IP Law News (@IP_Law_News) August 10, 2013
Photos of New York family taken through their
Catching Up On @TrademarkBlog Tweets
Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements | ICANN http://t.co/vN4QPRyp0p
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) August 7, 2013
The Dotless Domain Name ( no TLD suffix) Study (Recommendations on pg. 14) | ICANN http://t.co/6Htfo7qIuh
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) August 6, 2013
High Risk of 'Name Collisions' in .HOME and .CORP | ICANN http://t.co/i8nM9BkIyq
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) August 6, 2013
Breaking:
Small Detail Re India’s Accession To Madrid Protocol
Turns out that when India acceded to the Madrid Protocol on July 8 of this year, it elected to, per Article 14.5 of the Protocol, only accept extensions of International Registration that were created after July 8, which, on July 8, included zero percent of the world’s International Registrations (see the May 29 docs
A WEBB Of Confusion
Webb Law Firm of West Virginia seeks declaratory judgment against Webb Law Firm of Pennsylvania. Complaint gives the history of the Webbs of West Virginia. Also, ‘Country Roads’ is a West Virginia favorite.
webb v webb
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Text and Commentary on 2d Cir STOLI Decision
Justia summary: Plaintiffs filed suit under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq., against defendants, alleging trademark infringement based on a theory that defendants misappropriated and have unauthorized commercial use in the United States of certain United States-registered trademarks related to “Stolichnaya” – brand vodka (the “Marks”). At issue on appeal was whether
Keller v. EA: visual elements mean game isn’t protected by First Amendment
43(b)log: Keller v. EA: visual elements mean game isn’t protected by First Amendment:
“As the dissent pointed out, “[t]he logical consequence of the majority view is that all realistic depictions of actual persons, no matter how incidental, are protected by a state law right of publicity regardless of the creative context. This logic jeopardizes