U.S. Department of Commerce:  Chris Israel, currently Deputy Chief of Staff for the Secretary of Commerce, has been named by President Bush as the new Coordinator of International Intellectual Property Enforcement.

First in war, first in peace, and tied for first in the NL East.

Dispute over ownership of the trademark WASHINGTON NATIONALS, via Newsday.

Quiz:

Who did the Milwaukee Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Minnesota Twins used to be?

Who did the Baltimore Orioles used to be?

Who did the Oakland A’s, Atlanta Braves, and Houston Astros used to be?

What up with Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

Other than Shea Stadium, are there any stadia named after lawyers? (the Athol arena doesn’t count)

Where did the St. Louis Rams, Phoenix Cardinals and Indiannapolis Colts come from?

Tennessee Titans were the . . . ?

Didn’t there used to be a Cleveland Browns?

Don’t email me as I already know the answers.

I will be presenting on ‘TheYear in Trademark Law’ and “IP Blogs,Websites and Technology” at the 2005 Midwest Intellectual Property Institute, sponsored by the Minnesota State Bar Association, September 27 and 28.  Other presenters include Copyright Office, Trademark Office and Customs Officials (and some disreputable IP bloggers).  Subjects on both contentious and prosecution issues in patent, trademark and copyright, will be covered.

Saul Bass, who designed title sequences for movies such as Vertigo and Psycho, also designed the ATT logo and the one shown here for FULLER PAINTS (a revised version is still in use by Fuller O’Brien, a successor in interest).

More on film titles here.

More on Saul Bass here.

Great website on illustration including many posts on commercial art: Drawn.ca.

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Two different issue in this NY Lawyer article: (1) Rightsholders in WHAT HAPPENS HERE, STAYS HERE is suing the owner of registrations for WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, STAYS IN VEGAS; (2) The advertising agency that created the WHAT HAPPENS HERE slogan is the owner of the slogan and not the client, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Background on $1 transfer of slogan to agency here.

Suggestion that the slogan sends the wrong message here.

More on the Wayback Machine/DMCA matter here via Discourse.net.

Australian decision re when linking to a site can constitute authorization of copyright infringement.  Note comment that press reports of this case are overstating linking liability.