The Onion on the RIAA’s move to stop radio (satire indicator on).

KPMG Consulting announced its name change to BearingPoint yesterday.  It appears to have filed for the trademark in various countries (see metasearch) and secured broad domain name coverage for BEARINGPOINT, BEARINGPOINTE and BEARING-POINT in .com, .net, .info, .biz, .us and .uk in July and August.  I know that things done right make for less interesting reading but there you are.

This time UPS sues Gator for pop-up ads.  Previous Blog item here.

This comment from Evhead on Kazaa (links to Megnut) gets to the point.  Here’s more information on Kazaa, this about commission-diverting software, from the NY Times

Can I take your product and modify it so as to reach new audiences?  CleanFlicks “edits” out what it deems to be inappropriate material (i.e. sex and violence) and then rents or sells the edited version.  It argues that the First Amendment gives them the right to do so and filed a declaratory judgement action.  The movie companies very likely believe that the judge will not have to make new law to find that this is text-book  trademark and copyright infringement.

Revelation, a small perfume company, apparently had senior rights to the mark TRUTH.  Calvin Klein bought the rights but allowed Revelation to continue using, and negotiated a trademark co-existence agreement dividing up distribution channels (Calvin Klein got the more expensive outlets).  However, TRUTH CALVIN KLEIN begain showing up in discount stores and Revelation sued.  It is hard to police the “stream of commerce.”  Via NY Times (online subscription required).

Wow, nothing on the Blog about U.S. companies pirating Vietnamese trademarks for months, and now this one via Business Times Asia, after the one on Friday.  Incidentally, the aside in the article makes a mistake.  BASMATI is not a non-US trademark pirated by the US as it is not a trademark (nor is it an appellation of origin).  It is a seed varietal (albeit a valuable one).

Another U.S Gubernatorial campaign (via Washington Post), another instance of one side registering a domain name consisting of the opponent’s name, another political website that is less than forthright about its source.