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Category: Keyword Advertising

Posted on August 23, 2021August 24, 2021 Keyword Advertising

Google adwords hell breaks loose. Yay!

The Google / ad words / trademarks story, long a mainstay of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®, may end up needing a blog of its own, so... Read more

Posted on July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 Keyword Advertising

The target keeps moving on keyword advertising

Searchengineland: Eric Goldman reports that a US District Judge in Florida ordered an advertiser using a trademark term to use the negative keyword option, to... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Keyword Advertising

Not quite dead

The Google / Kinderstart suit was dismissed, with leave given to amend, in August. What sounds like oral argument regarding the amended complaint is being... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Keyword Advertising

Forward, into the past

Eric Goldman reports on a couple of cases that are doin’ the Time Warp — again: It’s not uncommon for courts to make judgments based... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Keyword Advertising

The key to the kingdom

Sooner a later, “the courts” are going to decide whether or not keyword advertising is a trademark infringement. Here’s the latest sortie taking off, via... Read more

Posted on May 25, 2021 Keyword Advertising

Google, Geico Good to Go

Google and Geico have settled. Originally posted 2014-03-14 10:41:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more

Posted on May 24, 2021 Keyword Advertising

Bring your discomfort bag (revised and expanded)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog: “The keyword advertising legal roller-coaster continues.” As someone who is on that thrill ride — at least partly on the... Read more

Posted on March 29, 2020 Keyword Advertising

MoveOn.org giveth

But does it then taketh away? Wired reports: The left-leaning political advocacy group, MoveOn.org, is backing down in a flap over the use of its... Read more

Posted on November 2, 2019 Keyword Advertising

Best of 2007: MoveOn.org giveth

Originally posted on October 15, 2007. But does it then taketh away? Wired reports: The left-leaning political advocacy group, MoveOn.org, is backing down in a... Read more

Posted on October 13, 2019 Keyword Advertising

Best of 2011: Ninth Circuit. Keywords. Trademarks. Hike!

First posted on March 11, 2011. Here’s a roundup of what other people are saying about the decision in Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced System... Read more

Posted on February 18, 2019March 15, 2019 Keyword Advertising

Google’s keyword policy shift has unsurprising effect

Lori Weiman of Search Engine Land reports: As you may know, Google recently loosened its policy in the USA related to the use of trademarks in ad... Read more

Posted on December 24, 2018January 28, 2019 Keyword Advertising

Errors and Omissions

Doubleday’s flack emails me about a new book called Errors and Omissions by Paul Goldstein, a law professor at Stanford who wrote an earlier book,... Read more

Posted on May 8, 2018 Keyword Advertising

Google, Google, Gone!

Gevald. It’s all Google, all the time here! Via Instapundit — now this! Google’s secretive and politically — well, incorrect, actually — news and ad... Read more

Posted on January 13, 2016 Keyword Advertising

And Let Google the Dogs of Law

It had to happen — another piece of territory now being rented out in the Lanham-Act-as-competition-buster industry: A new service has announced that it will... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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