Secondary Trademark Liability – LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™

Poor eBay!

Posted on November 2, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2011-04-27 17:02:13. Republished by Blog Post PromoterNews item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy

Digital analysis of images and counterfeiting

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-10-08 00:05:07. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYahoo! News: Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the […]

Uncategorized

Give the man credit

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-09-20 12:58:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy

Credit card companies get green light to profit from, enable Internet piracy

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2014-02-10 15:10:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Reuters reports that in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa Intl. Serv. Assn., 494 F.3d 788, 793 (9th […]

Counterfeiting & Piracy

Key decision

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-03-19 15:28:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter“Google makes money not by reason of the nature of the keyword, but by someone clicking on […]

Fair Use, Internet Law, Trademarks and trademark law

Not Baidu enough

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Jane Coleman

Originally posted 2010-08-15 13:47:22. Republished by Blog Post PromoterBaidu is another case in which the court declined to extend anything like a strict-liability standard for […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Google’s keyword policy shift has unsurprising effect

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-07-24 14:38:21. Republished by Blog Post PromoterLori Weiman of Search Engine Land reports: As you may know, Google recently loosened its policy in the USA […]

Keyword Advertising

eBay appeal: The gang’$ all here

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2012-05-16 21:35:58. Republished by Blog Post PromoterEric Krangel reports that Amazon and Google join in on the Tiffany v. eBay appeal: It’s not […]

Secondary Liability

Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Jane Coleman

Originally posted 2010-07-12 08:05:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The essential role played by credit card companies in online trademark infringement was recognized in Gucci […]

Secondary Liability

Inducement to contribute to infringe … to roll on

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2013-02-12 16:34:14. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMichael Atkins: Novel causes of action for contributory cybersquatting and contributory dilution appear to viable here in […]

Trademarks and trademark law

Secondary trademark infringement: The whole of the law

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Ron Coleman

Originally posted 2009-09-07 15:00:09. Republished by Blog Post PromoterSecondary Trademark Infringement — the website: This website is dedicated to an examination of the law of […]

Secondary Liability

Locution, Locution, Locution: IP Licensors – Service Suppliers or Product Providers?

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Jane Coleman

Consider the following scenario: Company A is a well-known film producer that licenses its intellectual property rights in famous cartoon characters to Company B, a […]

Licensing