Interesting decision from Judge Posner of the Seventh Circuit on copyright misuse: Assessment Technologies v. WireData.

How Appealing interview Judge Posner here.

Via Internetnews.com, discussion of how manufacturerers such as IBM, HP and Microsoft, have responded to SCO’s claims of Unix/Linux copyright infringement, with regard to indemnifying their customers (HP and Microsfot have, IBM hasn’t).

Via The Smoking Gun, a copy of the Trademark Office’s Preliminary Refusal to register KABBALAH RED STRING for Kabbalah Red Strings.  Apparently adherents to the Kabbalah, a Jewish form of mysticism made trendy recently by Madonna, wear red strings on their wrist to ward off evil.

IPKat on protection of color marks in the UK and the EEC.

Leaving only the Michael Jackson case and Iraq as unresolved world crises, OCLC, owners of the Dewey Decimal System, has settled its litigation with the Library Hotel regarding the latter’s use of the system to designate rooms in its hotel.  OCLC press release here.

Lovemarks is Saatchi and Saatchi’s website devoted to brands that people love.

Text of Amicus brief of Michael Crichton, Larry David, Jeremiah Healy, Elmore Leonard, Harry Shearer, Ron Sheltom, Scott Turow, Paul Weitz and the Author’s Guild, written by Eugene Volokh and Erick Jaffe, on behalf of Todd McFarlane’s cert. petition in McFarlane v. Tony Twist (backround here and Missouri Supreme Court decision here), on the right of an author to name a character after a real person.  Via How Appealing.

Cornell University indicates that it will oppose Red Hat’s attempt to register FEDORA for operating systems, based on Cornell’s prior use.  Via ZD Net.