The Laboratorium: Rescuecom Oral Argument Report.
Engadget:”Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta“:
So last week Deutsche Telekom, owners of the global T-Mobile brand, sent Engadget a late birthday present: a hand-delivered letter direct from their German legal department requesting the prompt discontinuation of the use of the color magenta on Engadget Mobile. Yep, seriously.
Discussion here.
Facebook owns registrations in the US for:
FACEBOOK
It used to own one for THEFACEBOOK but amended it to FACEBOOK. It has applications for:
POKE
32665 (Facebook’s text message shortcode)
FBOOK
THE WALL
F (stylized)
FACEBOOK INSIGHTS
FANSUMER
FACEBOOK PAGES
FACEBOOK BEACON
FACEBOOK ADS
BEACON
SOCIALADS
SOCIAL ADS
News.com: “Are mix tape sites on solid legal ground?“:
A seemingly home-spun operation with no obvious profit motive, Muxtape allows anyone to upload a series of songs to its servers to create, and then distribute online, a digital “mix tape” along the lines of the ones you made for your unrequited paramours back in college.
Article quotes friends of the blog Fred von L. and Eric G.
Societes Des Bains De Mer et Du Cercles Des Etrangers a Monaco v. MGM Mirage, Inc. et al
Plaintiff: Societes Des Bains De Mer et Du Cercles Des Etrangers a Monaco
Defendant: MGM Mirage, Inc. and Victoria Partners, L.P.
Case Number: 1:2008cv03157
Filed: March 28, 2008
Court: New York Southern District Court
The complaint is not available and there appears to be no press on this yet. I’ll note that plaintiff manages the Monte Carlo casino in Monaco, and MGM Mirage manages the Monte Carlo resort and casino in Las Vegas. Plaintiff owns two registrations that incorporate the term MONTE CARLO.
Australian IT: “Websites win right to show Games clips“:
INTERNET sites in Australia will be allowed to show short video clips of Olympic events for the first time during the Beijing Games, following a historic agreement announced yesterday between the Seven Network and the International Olympic Committee.
Discussion here.
WIPO: DNS Developments Feed Growing Cybersquatting Concerns:
Last year, a record 2,156 complaints alleging cybersquatting – or the abusive registration of trademarks on the Internet – were filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center (Center), representing an 18% increase over 2006 and a 48% increase over 2005 in the number of generic and country code Top Level Domain (gTLDs and ccTLDs) disputes.