Too good to be true!!

Now this is interesting! The Denver Post is reporting:

If these allegations are true, it’s really Christmas in July (just about right time of year, too!) for Likelihood of Confusion and our ilk! Oh, what a merry, merry bit of litigation that would be! Let me get this straight: Yahoo! buying search terms on Google… to redirect users searching for a third website, which competes with Yahoo!, and whose name is evidently a trademark… It’s too good to be true. Trademark infringement, unfair competition, fair use, intereference with prospective economic advantage, who-knows-what- terms-of-use-based claims… exploding cars! Michael Jordan! 83-year yard passes! It’s chocolate syrup on top of chocolate-chocolate-chip ice cream — but no calories, of course! And you’re eating it in Hawaii! And all the hair on top of your head’s grown back, too! Not that it matters, because you wear a cap… while performing your new job as centerfielder for the Yankees!!!!

(Sigh.)

Hat tip to Search Engine Watch.

UPDATE:  Evan Brown writes in, sends the complaint (which I’ve scanned via OCR here) and comments, “You can tell plaintiff’s counsel is a trademark expert from paragraph 2, in which it alleges that a mark registered in 1999 has been renewed.  Bless their hearts….”  Meow!!

Originally posted 2006-06-15 19:44:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter