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
Tag: Keyword Advertising
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
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
Trademark suit threats to shut down free speech? Shocking.
Kansas City infoZine News reports (link added): The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned the Chicago Auto Show to back off attempts to muzzle protestors [sic]... Read more
Google Plaintiffs Start Here
It may or may not be true that sooner or later, everyone in intellectual property law will be suing Google. Well, it’s almost certainly not... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
GEICO Isn’t Good News for Google
Remember the GEICO v. Google case? My former law partner and long-time spouse Jane Coleman does. She’s writing a chapter on secondary trademark infringement liability for... Read more
Wal-Mart pushed back on dubious trademark threats
MarketWatch reports this story about an opinonated gent who’s suing Wal-Mart for a declaratory judgment: Smith said he was making a point by comparing the... Read more
Keyword advertising: Big IP pushing hard
Paul Alan Levy has brought my attention to this development, which he rounds up at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog: Corynne McSherry and Eric... Read more
District of New Jersey: Initial interest, other confusion okay in search terms claim
Just when the Southern District of New York was hinting that it might be safe to go back in the water and stop worrying about... Read more
Trademark lobby picks one up in Utah
Per Michael Atkins: On March 19, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed a bill into law that bans some forms of key word advertising. The... Read more
Top Cyberlaw Developments of 2006
Eric Goldman has them. Of special interest: “Buying for the Home—an advertiser’s purchase of trademarked keyword was a trademark use in commerce, but in a... Read more