Utah HB 450 Dies in Utah Senate Without a Vote
…(filed 01/08/2008, closed 09/09/2008) * 1-800 Contacts v. Drugstore.com, 2:2008cv00157 (filed 02/26/2008, closed 08/12/2008) * 1-800 Contacts v. Lens.com Inc., 2:2007cv00591 (filed 08/13/2007) * 1-800 Contacts v. Premier Holdings, 2:2007cv00946…
Utah House Barely Passes HB 450 (Maybe)–UPDATED
…1-800 Contacts; Kate Kaye catches us up on some of 1-800 Contacts’ maneuverings. It’s not clear if the Senate will approve the law; or if it will even act on…
Utah Trying to Regulate Keyword Advertising….Again!? Utah HB 450
…1-800 Contacts is the prime mover behind this statute, and 1-800 Contacts has testified in support of the law. 1-800 Contacts has an hard-to-explain love/hate relationship with keyword advertising. 1-800…
December 2008 Quick Links, Part 1
…and then promptly dissolving a non-profit organization without ever using it? Makes no sense to me. * 1-800 Contracts, Inc. v. Lens.com, Inc., 2008 WL 5191705 (D. Utah Dec. 10,…
Competitive Pop-up Ads Aren’t Unfair Competition or Tortious Interference–Overstock v. SmartBargains
…Internet retailing peer 1-800 Contacts flipped–and go seek out a friendly and easily persuaded Utah state legislator to give it a tailor-made anti-keyword advertising statute? Stranger things have happened in…
Wikipedia Ethics Event, May 15 at SCU
By Eric Goldman The High Tech Law Institute is cosponsoring (along with the Center for Science, Technology and Society and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics) the following event: The…
11th Circuit Freaks Out About Metatags–North American Medical v. Axiom
…and thus the trademark references have no chance of being perceived. Along the way, the 11th Circuit distinguishes (and denigrates) the Second Circuit’s 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU case on two…
Utah Amends Trademark Protection Act (But Only After Some Drama)
…friend 1-800 Contacts, who initially had been part of the coalition to repeal the Utah Trademark Protection Act but apparently had a last-minute change of mind. I don’t fully understand…
Rescuecom v. Google Oral Arguments Finally Calendared
…the Second Circuit ducked search engine liability in its influential 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU precedent and will now have to address it squarely, (4) an affirmance might prove persuasive enough…
1-800 SKI VAIL Doesn’t Infringe–Vail Associates v. Vend-Tel-Co
…defendant operates nearly 2 dozen 800-phone lines that all begin “1-800-SKI-[destination].” At issue in this case is the phone line 1-800-SKI-VAIL. The 800 number was a redirection service that routed…