INTA Toronto May ’06 Brochure.
Where should we stay? Where should we go? Should we have a bloggers’ fete?
For Your Serbia and Montenegro IP Needs
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Uncategorized
I received a solicitation for a Serbia and Montenegro IP firm with a nice picture of a coutry road on its website.
Swiffer Apparently Doesn’t Contain Anti-Freeze
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Libel/Defamation
Internet damage control in action. A neighbor forwarded me an email this morning indicating that Swiffer WetJet contains anti-freeze, and that pets die after licking the floor where Swiffer has been used. As we use Swiffer and have two extremely bad dogs, this concerned me. I Googled ‘Swiffer pets’ and got this disclaimer from Swiffer.
How do these things get started?
Trainspotting
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Uncategorized
Further to our previous conversations about the practice of the third parties monitoring domain name and trademark filings for tidbits of news, here we have Gizmondo reporting on Google’s registration of the domain names GOOGLEMAGAZINES.COM, GOOGLEMICROFILM.COM, GOOGLELIBRARY.COM and GOOGLEPAPERS.COM.
OPEN SOURCE PAJAMAS
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Likelihood of Confusion
ZERO TOLERANCE For Infringing Gaming Trademark
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Likelihood of Confusion
MEGA BLOKS v. LEGO BLOCKS
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Uncategorized
MEGA BLOKS wins a round against LEGO in Canada.
UPDATE; Text of Mega Blok v. Lego decision, hat tip Andrea.
STARBUCKS in Russia
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Famous Marks
Starbucks has gained the upper hand in its travails in using the STARBUCKS mark in Russia, via Forbes.
Sony Recalls CDs Due To DRM Problem
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Copyright
Copyfight has exhaustive coverage.
Reading of this incident and thinking of Prof. Lessig’s theory of ‘code is law‘, all I can say is that there are still a few bugs in the system.
.EU Sunrise Begins December 7
By Marty Schwimmer on
Posted in Domain Names
So I am told.