[Ad] New Publication Announcement: Data Protection Law Reporter
…includes a “symposium on Target breach, FTC v. Wyndham and Heartbleed bug” that’s described below. The publisher is offering the PDF-downloadable symposium issue for $250 to test the market for…
Don’t Roll The Dice On Defamation Suits Against Gripe Sites, Especially In California–Ocean’s Eleven v. Anders
…the mark to sell a competing product. Any harm that Ocean’s Eleven may have experienced arises not from a competitor’s sale of a similar product under Ocean’s Eleven’s mark, but…
Yelp Wins Another Section 230 Case–Kimzey v. Yelp
…App. 4th 816, 717-18 (Cal. App. 2002)). I’m going to give this lawsuit only 1 star. Photo credit: Hand putting check mark with red marker on poor one star rating…
Another Questionable IP Lawsuit Over a Derogatory Twitter Account
…also bring a claim based on infringement of the “Uli Behringer” trademark, but it’s unclear that Music Group (who we can only assume obtained ownership of the trademark from Behringer,…
Q1 2014 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP)
…For a discussion of the “logic” of deciding the law based on relative placement of search engine results, see this archive post: “Quityerbitchin: Relative Search Results Placement Doesn’t Support Trademark…
Internet Law Professors File Amicus Brief in ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Case–Garcia v. Google
…many friends such as Rebecca Tushnet and Mark Lemley. If I hadn’t done my own brief, I would have signed this one too. The brief focuses on the panel majority’s…
Android and Pandora Privacy Rulings Accept Low Hurdle for Standing
…personal information for “direct marketing” (perhaps defined as marketing via email, telephone, postal mail and other similar means), but you would use it for other types of marketing. Or perhaps…
More Intellectual Property Trivia Questions (The Outtakes)
…What is the year of the first U.S. trademark registration? A: 1870. ____ Q: name the first federal trademark registration applied for and registered. A: Applied for: “Attorney David A….
Court Declines to Review LRO to [.delmonte], Saying gTLDs Aren’t ‘Domain Names’ for Cybersquatting Purposes
…the context of the trademark analysis (i.e., acme.com is treated the same as “acme” for trademark purposes). Nevertheless, the case law is largely inconclusive. The court looks to the text…
H2 2013 Quick Links, Part 5 (Miscellaneous)
…Robert X. Cringely (a/k/a Mark Stephens). * Evans v. Second Life settles for $172k. Evans v. Linden Research, Inc., 2013 WL 5781284 (N.D.Cal. Oct. 25, 2013). Preliminary approval of settlement…