Adrants.com: “Gigantic Goes After MDC’s WE ARE GIGANTIC For Trademark Infringement”:
“Both GIGANTIC and We Are Gigantic are located in New York. Urban has taken issue with MDC naming its new shop We Are Gigantic and has filed suit against We are Gigantic, L.L.C. and Neil Powell claiming trademark infringement.
Urban tells us, “Neil has offered to peacefully co-exist with our company by offering a plan for differentiating our brands, but so far I have seen nothing that remotely attempts to accomplish this. I am flummoxed as to why this so difficult a document to produce for someone who is supposedly so proficient in branding. Specifically, I find the use of the color red in his logo to be particularly naive, given the use of red in our logotype.”

Wired.com: “MoveOn.org Reverses: Allows Critical Ads on Google“:
“The left-leaning political advocacy group, MoveOn.org, is backing down in a flap over the use of its name in online advertisements, permitting an influential Republican senator to criticize the organization in a reelection ad on Google’s search engine.
“We don’t want to support a policy that denies people freedom of expression,” says Jennifer Lindenauer, MoveOn.org’s communications director.”

Let me ask you guys something. As an exercise, I purchased some keywords that have to do with trademark law for ads that promote The Trademark Blog.
I use MyBlogLog, which identifies URLs that readers clicked on to get to my site. One such URL is:
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-4171260820145196&dt=1192178573625&lmt=1192178573&prev_fmts
=728x90_as&format=300x250_as&output=html&correlator=1192178572531&channel=5765682001&
url=http://www.wwe.com/divasearch/competitions/res
If you click on that URL you get a page that looks like this, displaying Google ads for watches, wrestling shows and ringtones. If you look at the string, you will see a bit of a url:
http://www.wwe.com/divasearch/competitions/res
which doesn’t resolve but
http://www.wwe.com/divasearch/competitions/rescue/
does resolve to the WWE site. You’ll notice that the page has no content conceivably related to trademark law (although the word ‘trademark’ does appear on the bottom of the page, as part of WWE’s trademark legend).
However you’ll note that there are no keyword ads on the page.
Various ‘Google syndication’ URLs containing bits of WWE pathnames have been showing up for several weeks now, as well as pathnames that I would characterize as resolving to splogs. None of these sites are trademark related and none seem to be running my ads.
And I’m skeptical that if my ads did appear on the WWE site, that anyone viewing the WWE Divasearch would click through to view The Trademark Blog.
Any theories as to why these strings are showing up in my referrer logs (and yes, I am being charged and no, Google has not provided an explanation to date)?

Press Release:
Edison-based I-many, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMNY) announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Model N, Inc. of Redwood Shores, Calif., for trademark infringement, dilution, fraudulent business practices and unfair competition.
The Edison provider of contract management software and services alleges that Model N has deliberately used I-many’s registered trademarks in a series of online advertisements, where potential customers who click on the trademark “I-many” are diverted to Model N’s Web site.

The Tech: “RIAA Sends Thirty Pre-Liitgation Letters Over Alleged Music Piracy“:
“Thirty individuals at MIT have been sent pre-litigation settlement letters after allegedly illegally downloading copyrighted music, according to a press release issued by the Recording Industry Association of America last month.
The letters are part of an RIAA strategy announced February 2007 that give students accused of piracy a chance to settle outside of court. The pre-litigation letters offer discounted settlements compared to settlements available after civil court proceedings begin, according to the press release.”

EarthTimes.org: “Russian Standard Vodka and Forbes Win 2007 Domain Name and Internet Traffic Industry Awards“:
“This year’s winners are Russian Standard Vodka and Steve Forbes, CEO of Forbes, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine and former presidential candidate (who also delivered the conference’s keynote address). The domain name and Internet traffic industry’s version of the Academy Awards, We Get It! is bestowed upon the organization or individual(s) that has best demonstrated an understanding of the power of domains and the Internet by attracting visitors, increasing sales and beating competitors in terms of Internet marketing.”