Google and Yahoo Sued for Hosting Content That Allegedly Infringes Trademarks–(ISC)2 v. Degraphenreed
…a service provider for hosting trademark-infringing content, and I can’t think of a case where a service provider has been held liable a trademark infringer for hosting user content. This…
Utah Trademark Protection Act Dying a Slow Death
By Eric Goldman As I reported before, the backroom negotiations over the Utah Trademark Protection Act have produced a compromise where Utah would still create a mark registry but there…
AOIR Regulating Virtual Worlds Panel, and My Notes on Investment Expectations in Virtual Worlds
…Yet, legal rules may be too rational. For example, a traditional economic analysis would encourage the development of markets for virtual property, regardless of any EULA restrictions, because these markets…
AFP v. Google News Redux–AP v. Moreover
…on the fact that Moreover publicizes that it indexes AP content (this is a little like truthfully announcing third party branded ingredients–see Mark McKenna’s post on that topic); and the…
Utah Trademark Protection Act Update
By Eric Goldman Kate Kaye at ClickZ provides an update on the Utah Trademark Protection Act. According to Kate, there have been extensive and continuous backroom negotiations to produce a…
Lemley on Online Safe Harbors
By Eric Goldman Mark Lemley, Rationalizing Internet Safe Harbors Mark Lemley has weighed in on an topic near and dear to my heart–secondary liability online. He advances two principal arguments…
American Blinds Sanctioned
…that the first Sleekcraft factor-strength of mark-weighs in favor of Google.” While this factor may have pointed in favor of Google in all cases, this will be a valuable asset…
Google Sued in Domainer Lawsuit–Vulcan Golf v. Google
…rare for good reason– trademark owners must establish the validity of their marks, the famousness of their marks (for dilution) and the similarity between their marks and the defendants’ usage….
Ninth Circuit Screws Up 47 USC 230–Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com
…this case will be used by all who seek to limit Section 230’s broad immunity for ISPs. Whether the case constitutes a high-water mark for limitations on that liability, or…
Broad Matching Doesn’t Violate Injunction–Rhino Sports v. Sport Court
…business.” In 2002, Sport Court went after Rhino Sports for trademark infringement, and about 4 years ago, the parties settled the matter and agreed to a permanent injunction restricting Rhino…