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 […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »Google adwords hell breaks loose. Yay!
The Google / ad words / trademarks story, long a mainstay of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®, may end up needing a blog of its own, so […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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] […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »Trademarks in their entirety
It is a well-known axiom that when considering the validity or infringement of a trademark, it is to be considered in its entirety — not […]
Continue reading »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 […]
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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 […]
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