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Tag: Keyword Advertising

Posted on October 17, 2019 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 17, 2019 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 17, 2019 Fair Use Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on February 20, 2018 Parody and Satire

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

Posted on January 24, 2018 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on May 17, 2016 Internet Law

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

Posted on December 30, 2015January 7, 2016 Diversion

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

Posted on May 13, 2015 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 3, 2014December 30, 2014 Keyword Advertising

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

Posted on November 19, 2014December 30, 2014 Free Expression Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 26, 2014 Internet Law

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

Posted on February 27, 2014 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 2, 2013 Keyword Advertising

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

Posted on March 14, 2013 LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®

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

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