Google me this II
We blogged a week or so ago (before I got bogged down in this trial — still in progress [UPDATE]) about Google’s trademark challenges. Here’s... Read more
Tag: Keyword Advertising
No more free ride
Attributor is a new program that online publishers can and do use to trace their verbal content across the Internet and see who is using... Read more
Metatags and infringement: Eleventh Circuit says, “Yes”
Search Engine Land: Eric Goldman reports that an 11th circuit, US Court of Appeals has upheld a district court’s decision that the use of trademark[-protected]... Read more
Best of 2010: Forget breakfast — eBay eats Tiffany’s lunch
The Second Circuit, unsurprisingly according to most commentators, has affirmed the decision of the Southern District of New York refusing to find eBay liable for... Read more
“Just taking orders” doesn’t cut it for eBay in Germany
eBay evidently got rocked by Rolex* in its German litigation this year, and we may never have heard about it if not for a securities... 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
Fair use in trademarks: Dying by a thousand small cuts
Dave Davis from RedFly Marketing writes: Today I received a standard “AdWords Approval Status” email on behalf of one of our clients. This particular client... 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
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
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
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
Very popular in France
Mike Masnick: Google is being fined hundreds of thousands of euros for allowing certain trademarked [sic] words to have advertisements run against them. It’s hard... Read more
Jenzabar: Blogs are sticks and stones; they hurt me.
Jenzabar, the educational software company Paul Levy and I mentioned last month (and which Overlawyered picked up) in connection with its “trademark as censorship tool”... Read more
Survey: Users Confuse Search Results, Ads
Speaking of my post from yesterday, below — wow. Survey: Users Confuse Search Results, Ads. Hard to see how this doesn’t have some effect on... Read more