Give the man credit
Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “home court” for LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®) has never been afraid to... Read more
Tag: Secondary Trademark Liability
Secondary liability conference Stanford thing
What if they called a conference on secondary liability on the Internet and no one told … well, me? It happens. I mean, that people... Read more
Best of 2009: The DMCA and the search engine
Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright... Read more
Poor eBay!
News item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay just reported first quarter earnings today posting revenue of... Read more
Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due
[stextbox id=”info”]This is an adaptation of a summary and analysis of the recent decision in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline Processing Corp., 2010 WL 2541367... Read more
Secondary Trademark Infringement: Don’t wait for the movie!
Critics agree: Buy the Jane Coleman and Griff Price’s Secondary Trademark Infringement from Bloomberg BNA –or you’re liable to miss the big one! Originally posted 2015-03-29 20:53:32.... Read more
eBay, VeRO and the Scientologists
Last February Scott Pilutik, an aggressively anti-religion blogger and lawyer, posted this excellent piece about the abuse by the Scientology cult of eBay’s VeRO program,... Read more
Credit card companies get green light to profit from, enable Internet piracy
Reuters reports that in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa Intl. Serv. Assn., 494 F.3d 788, 793 (9th Cir. 2007) the Ninth Circuit has affirmed (opinion here), 2-1, a... Read more
eBay wins Tiffany case
Reuters reports that Tiffany’s gamble has not paid off: EBay Inc scored a major legal victory on Monday, when a federal judge ruled that Tiffany... Read more
Secondary Trademark Infringement treatise updated for 2010-11
From the Overview to the update of Secondary Trademark Infringement by Jane Coleman, which is now complete: Of all the contexts in which secondary liability has... Read more
“Just taking orders” doesn’t cut it for eBay in Germany
eBay evidently got rocked by Rolex* in its German litigation this year, and we may never have heard about it if not for a securities... Read more
Best of 2011: Poor eBay!
First posted April 27, 2011.News item: eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent eBay just reported first quarter... Read more
eBay appeal: The gang’$ all here
Eric Krangel reports that Amazon and Google join in on the Tiffany v. eBay appeal: It’s not hard to see where the interest is coming... Read more
Digital analysis of images and counterfeiting
Yahoo! News: Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the Web in the second quarter of 2008 as... Read more