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By Daniel Nazer • March 8, 2012 at 12:49 pm
How accurate is the Patent and Trademark Office? Can its examiners tell good patents from bad? Read more » about A Rosenhan Experiment for the PTO
By Zohar Efroni • September 15, 2010 at 5:53 am
As of yesterday, Google’s new policy concerning registration of trademarks as keywords for triggering contextual advertisement in many European countries went into effect. The new policy, which strongly relies on the recent ECJ decision on Google’s potential liability for TM infringement via its adwords practice, demonstrates a notable shift in Google’s approach. Read more » about Google's New Adwording Policy in Europe
By Zohar Efroni • March 23, 2010 at 2:53 pm
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached high peak today with the release of the European Court of Justice’s ruling on the French cases. In what appears to be a resounding win for Google, the ECJ managed to avoid some of the critical questions in a decision that, in fact, projects little new light on the multibillion dollars question: Is AdWording that involves marks as keywords legal in Europe? Read more » about The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords
By Zohar Efroni • December 17, 2008 at 2:17 am
ICANN’s recent initiative to open the generic domain names space to an application, register-your-favorite-gTLD process struck me as very problematic from the moment I had first heard about it. Ars technica has a great post on the topic, which marks the end of the period during which ICANN has been receiving comments concerning its ambitious plan. Read more » about ICANN's Plan for New Top Level Domains
