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Tag: Secondary Trademark Liability

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

Baidu v. Register.com
Posted on September 20, 2019 Trademarks and trademark law

Not Baidu enough

Baidu is another case in which the court declined to extend anything like a strict-liability standard for contributory infringement, in this case against a domain... Read more

Posted on February 18, 2019March 15, 2019 Keyword Advertising

Google’s keyword policy shift has unsurprising effect

Lori Weiman of Search Engine Land reports: As you may know, Google recently loosened its policy in the USA related to the use of trademarks in ad... Read more

Posted on April 20, 2016 Trademarks and trademark law

Inducement to contribute to infringe … to roll on

Michael Atkins: Novel causes of action for contributory cybersquatting and contributory dilution appear to viable here in the Western District [of Washington]. On Jan. 12,... Read more

Posted on March 29, 2016 Secondary Liability

Secondary trademark infringement: The whole of the law

Secondary Trademark Infringement — the website: This website is dedicated to an examination of the law of secondary liability for trademark infringement – the idea... Read more

Posted on August 4, 2015 Licensing

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

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... Read more

Posted on March 20, 2015 Counterfeiting & Piracy

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... 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 January 22, 2014June 20, 2014 Secondary Liability

Secondary Trademark Infringement: The Monograph

Now it’s out!  The book that transcends the Secondary Trademark Infringement website — itself now converted to a blog by Jane Coleman that will report... Read more

Posted on December 27, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

Best of 2010: Gucci v. Frontline Processing: Giving credit for infringement where it’s due

First posted July 12, 2010. The essential role played by credit card companies in online trademark infringement was recognized in Gucci America, Inc. v. Frontline... Read more

Posted on February 9, 2011October 25, 2012 Counterfeiting & Piracy Fashion Law Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

Not all ISP’s are created equal

@EricGoldman: Web host Akanoc hit with $32M contributory TM judgment for customers’ counterfeiting http://bit.ly/3BR6ZW Whoa. More to come … Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc jury verdict... Read more

The Rosetta Stone
Posted on September 1, 2010April 9, 2012 Trademarks and trademark law

Rosetta Stone v. Google: Lost in translation

When courts consider search engine company liability for trademark infringement, whether direct or indirect, they typically focus on the sale of “trademarked” keywords, or search... Read more

Posted on July 29, 2010March 17, 2019 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

Transamerica v. Moniker Online: When domain registrars go bad

Domain name registrars have not typically been held contributorily liable for trademark infringement committed by their registrants. See Lockheed Martin; Size, Inc.; Academy of Motion... Read more

Posted on June 7, 2010June 7, 2010 Copyright Law Trademarks and trademark law

Missing persons

Usually, as the bible of secondary trademark infringement explains, “contributory infringement . . . requires proof of direct infringement by a third party . .... Read more

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