eBay Sued for Failing to Take Down Listings–Hansson v. Brower
…ISC2 v. Degraphenreed case, where Google and Yahoo got pulled into a trademark lawsuit for hosting some content that allegedly infringed the plaintiff’s trademark. Today’s case in point is Hansson…
ISC2 v. Degraphenreed Update
…used a new title with the same acronym. Not only did the certification mark holder (ISC2) sue the individual, but it sued Google and Yahoo for various hosting activities. Some…
Online Word of Mouth and its Implications for Trademark Law
…by Graeme Dinwoodie and Mark Janis containing contributions from leading trademark scholars from around the world. Online word of mouth describes chatter about marketplace offerings that historically has taken place…
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…