Book ’em, Dan-o!
There really is still such a thing as personal jurisdiction — and its absence — even in the Internet age, reports Evan Brown: Last year... Read more
Category: Internet Law
Out-Googled
By the way, don’t get me wrong. I’m trying to cover the Google IP territory, if not comprehensively at least on the high points. But... Read more
Best of 2008: “No Social Networking Privilege”
This was originally posted on February 24, 2008. On Point reports that a New Jersey federal magistrate has, to the surprise of no actual attorney... Read more
Hormel canned
The evidence shows that “spam,†in addition to being petitioner’s trademark, has a well-recognized meaning as a generic term for unsolicited commercial email; the term isused by consumers, the media, Congress, state legislatures and those who sell solutions for such unwanted email. Thus, it does not have the requisite degree of distinctiveness to support a finding of dilution, at least vis-à -vis respondent’s use of the term as part of the mark SPAM ARREST for computer software designed to eliminate unsolicited commercial email. Read more
But it is the Dark Side? Or just plain old The Force?
Evan Brown: “Behold the power of in rem actions“: In rem actions over domain names are powerful tools. A trademark owner can undertake these actions... Read more
Washington State to AOL: You’ve Got Nailed
The Internet Cases blog comes through again, reporting on this decision, holding that the forum selection clause in AOL’s terms of service does not trump... Read more
The prosecution of Ari Teman and the threat to online business
Here is my letter to the President explaining my take on this. Ari’s website, is here and includes links to this letter from Lawrence Lessig,... Read more
Good News: I Saved a Lot of Money on Litigation
Looking for the Geico v. Google decision? Here it is. More to come…. UPDATE: I didn’t exactly mean more litigation — but I guess we... Read more
Google Books debate
It’s all Google, all the time in our world. (I know that because I did a Google search of our world.) So, naturally, what’s the... Read more
Jurisdiction Argument Worth Zippo
This is an important decision, called Heidle v. The Prospect Reef Resort, Ltd. and reported by the fine Internet Cases website. Read Evan Brown’s treatment.... Read more
Florida: A nice place to visit, but…
Internet Solutions operates recruiting and Internet advertising businesses, including one called VeriResume. Tabatha Marshall runs a blog and website at www.tabathamarshall.com that monitors “phishing,” including... Read more
Copyright for bloggers
A while back ago I prepared a plain-language article, given the title “Copyright Rules of the Road for Bloggers,” for the Copyright & New Media... Read more
He’s got the key
Eric Goldman, author of one of the bona-fide-deserving, regularly updated, ABA-Blawg-100-listed and actually fairly indispensable Technology & Marketing Law Blog updates us on a beat I’ve written on... Read more
Google Takes Offense, Takes Offensive (for a change)
According to Search Engine Journal, perennial trademark infringement defendant Google has filed suit against Froogles.com, an online shopping site. The New York federal complaint is... Read more