Key decision
“Google makes money not by reason of the nature of the keyword, but by someone clicking on the keyword,” Google lawyer Alexandra Neri told a... Read more
Tag: Diversion
U.S. District of Arizona: “No automatic injunction upon a finding of copyright infringement”
Not that the plaintiffs in the Designer Skin case didn’t get an injunction: They did (here it is); a narrow one utilizing proposed language by... Read more
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
Best of 2008: The Long and Rocky Road
This was first posted on May 7, 2008. Irvin Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died yesterday. Here’s how much time has... Read more
Give the man credit
Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “home court” for LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®) has never been afraid to... Read more
Best of 2012: INTA and the big tent
First posted on May 13, 2012.In the previous INTA post I raised the question of how a significant session discussing a significant topic — the effect... Read more
Kirtsaeng and Copyright: First sale means first sale
The Supreme Court handed down a huge decision in copyright law today, ruling in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that the first sale doctrine, which... Read more
Canada: Copyright law not meant to protect distribution networks
The Gray Blog reports that the Canadian Supreme Court has rejected an attempt — the sort made all day all over North America — to... Read more
Split decision
During my traditional end-of-December goof-off here I didn’t pay adequate attention to the important non-ruling in Costco v. Omega, which involves an issue I have... Read more
The second time as farce
On the occasion of the S&L Vitamins v. Australian Gold trial, I reposted what I wrote here six months earlier about the first of these... Read more
Best of 2008: The Long and Rocky Road
This was first posted on May 7, 2008. Irvin Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, died yesterday. Here’s how much time has... Read more
Designer Skin v. S&L continued: “S&L had a perfect right to sell this product”
Unfortunately for future defendants in the position of our client, Internet retailer S&L, U.S. District Judge James Teilborg’s decision from the bench in the District... Read more
INTA and the big tent (updated)
Revised from Friday’s original post. In the previous INTA post I raised the question of how a significant session discussing a significant topic — the effect... Read more
Aw, shucks
We already covered the Designer Skin v. S&L Vitamins summary judgment decision, and linked to commentators Greg Beck, Bill Patry, Rebecca Tushnet, Eric Goldman and... Read more