Tom The Dancing Bug: The League of Public Domain Properties:
Real Estate Information Wants To Be Free
NY Times: “Realtors Agree to Stop Blocking Web Listings“:
The Justice Department gave online real estate brokers — and potentially their clients — a lift on Tuesday by forcing a new industry policy opening access to home listings the agents were previously denied.
“Top Ten Worst Spam Registrars Notified By ICANN”
ZDNET: “Top Ten Worst Spam Registrars Notifed By ICANN“:
The top ten ‘worst spam registrars’ are:
1. Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software
2. BEIJINGNN
3. Todaynic
4. Joker
5. eNom
6. Monker
7. Dynamic Dolphin
8. The Nameit Co/AITDOMAINS.COM
9. PDR
10. Intercosmos/DIRECTNIC
A discussion of the different metrics used and commentart on the methodology is at the ZDNet article.
The Trademark Blog Turns 6
The Trademark Blog was started 6 years ago in May 2002. Woot woot!
“Here I Come To Save The Day”
TUAW: “Company Sues CBS and Apple Over “Mighty Mouse“:
A firm named Man and Machine is suing both Apple and CBS for trademark infringement for using the Mighty Mouse name to describe a computer input device. Man and Machine makes hygenic water- and chemical-resistant keyboards and mice for hospitals and laboratories.
Mighty Mouse theme song here.
“Dodgy Trade”
The Economist: “The Booming Trade in Fake Viagra, and Other Counterfeit Goods:
Wait, What Was A Marsh Mallow Made Out Of?
In this discussion of a Swiss Federal Adminisitrative Court decision holding that PEACH MALLOW is not descriptive of candy, the point is made that Marshmallows are no longer made of the Mallow plant.
CFI Decision On Use In the EEC
WorldTrademarkReport: “Token Use Does Not Demonstrate Genuine Use“:
In Sonia Rykiel Création et Diffusion de Modèles v Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) (Case C-131/06, April 30 2008), the Court of First Instance (CFI) has annulled a decision by the Second Board of Appeal on the grounds that the board had failed to take into account all the relevant factors in determining whether use of an earlier mark could be regarded as genuine.
Unter Den Linden
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