Top Cyberspace IP Cases of 2005
…Website Parody” or similar language. The source code of his counterfeit pages also contained metatags, including the trademarked term “Faegre & Benson” and some meta-descriptions taken from Faegre’s webpage. Faegre…
10th Circuit Recognizes Initial Interest Confusion Doctrine–Australian Gold v. Hatfield
…experienced) initial interest confusion, we would need lots of facts—did search engines even index the metatags? What content did searchers see in search results triggered by metatags that were actually…
Metatags as Per Se Trademark Infringement–Tdata v. Aircraft Technical Publishers
…“ATP,” “ATP Navigator,” and “ATP Maintenance Director” into the metatags and title tags. ATP sues. Most of us would say “big deal,” especially after the recent 6th Circuit Gibson Guitar…
New Metatag/SEO Lawsuit–Salu, Inc. v. Pitts
…owned by none of the litigants). Trademark Infringement The complaint starts out with a run-of-the-mill trademark infringement claim because the trademark “skinstore.com” appeared in newskinspa.com’s metatags. From my perspective, this…
WhenU Opposition to 1-800 Contact’s Certiorari Petition
…the decision below is at odds with cases involving metatags, cybersquatting and keyword advertising. But the Second Circuit addressed each of those situations in its opinion, explained why they differ…
Fall 2005 Cyberlaw Syllabus
…metatags, how the parties can lose sight of the big picture and how judges cut corners, but hardly a traditional trademark infringement analysis * Lockheed v. NSI–best teaching case for…
Top Internet IP Cases of 2005 (So Far)
…Important line-drawing discussion about metatags and pagejacking in the context of a gripe site. 6. Marvel v. NCSoft. Dismissing several types of claims against MMORPG because users had created characters…
New Gripe Site Case–Faegre & Benson v. Purdy
…particular ruling had a number of noteworthy aspects. Purdy used the law firm’s name in the keyword metatags of a gripe site. He also used the firm’s description metatag as…
French Lawsuit Involving “Search Engine Optimization” Techniques
…stolen some of its “search optimization techniques.” The BNA write-up is a little fuzzy about what this means. There’s reference to Kaligona stealing keywords and metatags, although later there’s reference…