Ninth Lawsuit Against Google Over AdWords–Rosetta Stone v. Google
…firm is Gibson Dunn, which includes Terence Ross on the team. Terence lost some of the early WhenU keyword ad cases including the once-seminal 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU ruling. He…
Graeme Dinwoodie on Rescuecom v. Google
…to go back and rethink 1-800 Contacts. I agree though they have effectively undermined 1-800-Contacts. The bad news is that the messy way in which they have done it —…
Margreth Barrett on Rescuecom v. Google
…for example, 1-800 Contacts and 1800*]}*contacts.com (or whatever it was). I know that the 1-800 contacts court noted that the web address was not the mark, but I can’t see…
Second Circuit Says Google’s Keyword Ad Sales May Be Use in Commerce–Rescuecom v. Google
…in commerce” defense in keyword advertising cases and whether Google and other search engines could reform their practices so that they are no longer deemed uses in commerce. 1-800 Contacts…
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
…Dec. 22, 2008): The court realizes that a simple internet search for “nerds on call” could return the Nerds/California site. If a person has lived in Indiana and used Nerds/Indiana’s…
Keyword Ads and Other Marketing Supports Remote Jurisdiction–Market America v. Optihealth
…court of North Carolina. That ruling, on its own, isn’t all that interesting. The court found jurisdiction using the standard “minimum contacts” test, but even if it hadn’t, trademark infringement…
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…