Unfair use
Ron ColemanMore pain, very little gain — besides for lawyers’ college funds — in the roiling world of trademark fair use.
Deadbeat Daddy
Sometimes you feel like a motherless domain name? Maybe it’s because you’re using GoDaddy.com and they got a little nastygram. Read about the problem at “NoDaddy.Com – Exposing the Many…
Eating my words
I do it sometimes. In my case, they’re particularly tasty, and sometimes even tasteful. Definitely not tasteful, not tasty — not even edible, if “kosher” means anything (which judges refuse…
Trademarks mean something different up there, I guess
Can a building be a trademark? Can a photo of a building be a trademark? Can a drawing based on a photo of a building be a trademark? I’d be…
The Stoller that lives under the bridge
If we didn’t have Leo Stoller we still couldn’t possibly invent him.
Norway puts it to Apple
Yahoo! News / Reuters: Norway stepped up its battle with Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes on Thursday when its consumer ombudsman said the software giant must open access to its music…
The limits of boundaries
Ron ColemanMichael Atkins explains how ads that reinforce geographic indicators have their limitations.
Best of 2007: Ideological purity
First posted on January 24, 2007. Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that…
Internet anonymity still a judicial fave
Evan Brown reports: A trial court in Arizona has quashed a subpoena served on Godaddy, issued by a plaintiff in a defamation suit against an anonymous website owner. Applying the…
Ideological purity
Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the countrys…
Semaphores and metales
Two kinds of analogy, as scrambled by an old and dear friend. Evidently, there is another kind. John Welch writes about a TTAB decision cancelling trademark registrations based on the…
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Master your domain
A primer on domain name arbitration under the UDRP.
What is this?
Why, its Blawg Review #92! Pip pip pip and how-da-ya-do!