My Take on Google v. American Blinds
…summer paper will address the issue of “trademark adjacency”—when do adjacent uses of a trademark create liability? There are some interesting precedent from the supermarket context where, in fact, adjacency…
2005 Pew Report on Spam
…every new marketing medium. A new marketing medium develops, marketers abuse the medium, consumers and technologists develop coping strategies, and an equilibrium is established. This has happened with spam, this…
Bosley Medical Institute v. Kremer–Victory for Gripers
Bosley Medical Institute v. Kremer, No. 04-55962, 9th Cir. Apr. 4, 2005. Kremer launches gripe site at www.bosleymedical.com, using the trademark of his target (with no additional words/letters) in the…
Utah Amends Spyware Control Act
…to a specific trademark or URL, (2) that infringes a registered state or federal trademark, and (3) for an advertiser who is not one of six classes of permitted purchasers…
ZoomInfo and Egosurfing
…markets”, and the article says that “the free “people search” option aims to draw new visitors to the site and build the company’s reputation, thereby boosting subscription sales.” Whatever the…
Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2005 Passes House Judiciary Committee
…parodying, criticizing, or commenting upon the famous mark owner or the goods or services of the famous mark owner.” (This would replace the current non-commercial use defense). The new defense…
Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2005
…mark” or “willfully intended to trade on the reputation of the famous mark.” These seem to implicitly codify the goodwill misappropriation/initial interest confusion/”diversion” cases that have made trademark law so…
A blog worth watching
…I stumbled across the Guiding Rights blog by Mark Partridge and immediately added it to my RSS reader. Looks like a low volume but high quality contribution to the blogosphere….