Utah Bans Keyword Advertising [Updated]
By Eric Goldman Utah SB 236 (the “Trademark Protection Act”), enacted March 19, 2007 Legislators enact stupid laws all of the time, but some laws transcend mere stupidity and produce a single 3 letter response: WTF? And no legislature has…
Ninth Circuit Opinion in Perfect 10 v. CCBill
By Eric Goldman Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC, No. 04-57143, 04-57207 (9th Cir. March 29, 2007) The Ninth Circuit issued an important but characteristically quirky opinion in Perfect 10 v. CCBill. This omnibus opinion covered a lot of disparate…
Consumer-Directed DVR Service Infringes Copyright–20th Century Fox v. Cablevision
By Eric Goldman Twentieth Century Fox Films Corp. v. Cablevision Systems Corp., No. 06-Civ. 03390 (SDNY March 22, 2007) Not infrequently, copyright defendants argue that they are offering a service that passively implements consumer directions to infringe. In some cases,…
Miva Securities Litigation Rejects Most Click Fraud/Syndication Fraud Claims
By Eric Goldman In re Miva, Inc. Securities Litigation, 2007 WL 809686 (M.D. Fla. Mar. 15, 2007) Stockholders of Miva (formerly FindWhat) sued Miva, alleging that Miva had inflated its stock price by making false public statements. In this ruling,…
Entrepreneurs & IP Talk
By Eric Goldman I gave a talk to a group of local entrepreneurs on general IP issues in the process of being an entrepreneur. For most of you, this talk is very, very basic, but if you’re interested, here are…
KinderStart v. Google Dismissed–With Sanctions Against KinderStart’s Counsel
By Eric Goldman KinderStart.com LLC v. Google, Inc., C 06-2057 JF (N.D. Cal. March 16, 2007) Copy of the opinion dismissing the lawsuit Copy of the opinion granting sanctions against KinderStart’s counsel Gregory Yu Google has won big in the…
Person v. Google Dismissed (with leave to amend)
By Eric Goldman Person v. Google, C 06-7297 JF (RS) (N.D. Cal. Mar. 16, 2007) As expected, Judge Fogel dismissed Person’s antitrust lawsuit against Google but gave Person one more chance to refile a complaint. It would be foolish for…
Click Fraud Lawsuit Survives Motion to Dismiss–Payday Advance v. FindWhat
By Eric Goldman Payday Advance Plus, Inc. v. Findwhat.com, Inc., 2007 WL 760437 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 12, 2007) The high-profile click fraud lawsuits against Google and Yahoo settled last summer, but other lesser-known lawsuits appear to be in the pipeline, such…
Dumb Domain Name Dispute Du Jour–Korb v. Maxmedia
By Eric Goldman Korb v. Maxmedia, Inc., 2007 WL 734423 (E.D. Mich. Mar. 9, 2007) I rarely blog on domain name disputes for two reasons. First, there are too many of them, and each one tends to look like the…
Eric Goldman Road Show Spring 2007
By Eric Goldman I have a busy schedule over the next 3 months. As always, I’d welcome the opportunity to meet, either at the events below or if I am in your neighborhood. March 14: [TODAY!] Radio interview with David…