Best of 2012: INTA and the big tent
Ron ColemanFirst 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 of developments in keyword…
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 of developments in keyword…
Rosetta Stone v. Google: Schwimmer, Goldman, Levy intervene, 4th Circuit listens – UPDATED
The Rosetta Stone v. Google appeal: Marty, Eric and Paul — listed in the caption as limited intervenors, but, really, the biggest sticks in the room — have spoken, and…
Ninth Circuit. Keywords. Trademarks. Hike!
Here’s a roundup of what other people are saying about the decision in Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced System Concepts, Inc. involving keyword advertising using other folks’ trademarks (a form…
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 contributory trademark infrintgement in the…
Keyword advertising law à la française
Google wins! LVMH wins! Only it’s the same case. And they’re on opposite sides. Is this as Euro-law thing? Something particularly Frankish? No, it’s an Internet law thing. A 21st-century…
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” litigation, is back at it…
Hall of shame
Trademark infringement claims, especially based on Internet use — where no real damage need ever be proved, or even pleaded, to maintain an action — remain the handmaidens of litigants…
Liable to regret it
Instapundit: LIBEL SUITS AGAINST BLOGS HAVE BEEN IFFY — I wrote an article on that a couple of years ago — but Mickey Kaus’s discussion for some reason made me…
Wherefore art thou trademark use?
I wrote a couple of days ago — and once again got hit hard by a learned commenter who disagrees with my view of the matter — about the Second…
Second Circuit and the whole of the law on confusion
This is big, but stay calm. Though I hardly can. I took some heat a little while ago for suggesting, contrary to my generally skeptical view of what constitutes trademark…
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 15-judge panel of the European…
Very popular in France
Mike Masnick: Google is being fined hundreds of thousands of euros for allowing certain trademarked words to have advertisements run against them. It’s hard to see how this makes any…
Adverference?
Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), I finally figured out what was going on with banner ads on my Internet browsing. It…