Fifth Annual Internet Law Work-in-Progress Conference: Initial Participant List
…Law Jyh-An Lee // The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Mark Lemley // Stanford Law School Celia Lerman // Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Amanda Levendowski // Cooley…
California Anti-Spam Law Doesn’t Require Sender’s Name In The ‘From’ Line or Domain Name
…not necessarily misleading, was helpful, but did not stem the tide entirely. In Kleffman, the court noted that the domain names in question could all be traced to Vonage’s marketing…
The GOOGLE Mark Isn’t Generic–Elliott v. Google (Forbes Cross-Post)
…The “Do You Yahoo?” campaign is an example where a trademark owner affirmatively encouraged verb usage of its trademark. By indicating that verbing doesn’t automatically trademark genericide, the court’s ruling…
9th Circuit Creates Problematic “Failure To Warn” Exception to Section 230 Immunity–Doe 14 v. Internet Brands
…230 Doesn’t Protect Employer From Negligent Supervision Claim–Lansing v. Southwest Airlines. Warning: Ugly Opinion Backpage Gets TRO Against Washington Law Attempting to Bypass Section 230–Backpage v. McKenna PissedConsumer Denied Section…
Urban Outfitters’ Kent State T-Shirt Was Offensive But Probably Legal (Guest Blog Post)
…is defined as an “association arising from the similarity between a mark or trade name and a famous mark that harms the reputation of the famous mark.” Kent State would…
Fictional Software Brand In ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Movie Doesn’t Infringe Real-Life Software Brand–Fortres Grand v. Warner Bros.
…that supported the movie’s marketing. The plaintiff markets a real-world software program called “Clean Slate,” which is “used to protect public access computers by scouring the computer drive back to…
Q2 2014 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP)
…seal on a public access TV show doesn’t violate any trademark rights of the county. Related blog post. * Marketing Land: How Trademark Worries Block “World Cup” Ads On Google…
EFF Pub Trivia Night Recap
…for two teams: (1) a team of Durie Tangri lawyers (with a team name so long and confusing that I didn’t catch it), anchored by Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley….
[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…