Vuitton beats Google on home court
The International Herald Tribune reports: Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods manufacturer, won another round Wednesday in its court battle with the search engine Google to […]
Continue reading »Tag: Trademarks and trademark law
Online retailing and initial interest confusion
We reported earlier on a related case in this area implicating the use of trademarks to sell merchandise online via “unauthorized distributors.” A new decision […]
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No one blinks
Reuters reports that the Tiffany trademark suit against eBay is really going to trial. Really! I am sure no one expected this. I certainly didn’t. […]
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On the wrong track, as usual
Jews for Jesus, the sleazy, misleading missionaries who crawl over Manhattan each summer, had to back off from their use of the MTA’s world-famous symbols. […]
Continue reading »The only unmentionable trademark?
We alluded to this story in an earlier post. Evidently Daman Wayans’s attempt to file a trademark application for the word “Nigga” continues to hit […]
Continue reading »Lego-ing, going, gone….
The Globe and Mail reports: Danish toy giant Lego System AS was given a sharp lesson in the workings of free-market “creative destruction” yesterday when […]
Continue reading »Reverse Trademark Dilution?
Trademark dilution is something that happens when you use my “famous” trademark in a way that, while not necessarily threatening likelihood of confusion — because […]
Continue reading »Google me this
If trademark / Internet cases are not at the top of things to stay on top of in late December, you may have missed this […]
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