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Are you the keymaster?

The use of trademarks as keywords to serve up competitive advertising when someone uses the trademark as a search term is a hot topic.  Recently Google sued Ame…

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Reply Brief

NASA filed their reply brief today (Pesonen Declaration).  Sarah Givan will argue the case on June 4, 2004 before Judge Whyte at 9 am.…

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Tell Us Your Story or Just Learn More

Thanks to the excellent work of lawyers at Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, we’ve now convinced the court of the importance of discovery to demonstrate the actual…

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Update in Golan v. Ashcroft

Thanks to the excellent work of lawyers at Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, we’ve now convinced the court of the importance of discovery to demonstrate the actual…

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Townsend takes Pro Bobble case

Kudos to William Gallagher at Townsend for stepping up to defend the makers of Arnold Schwartzenegger bobble-head dolls, pro bono publico.  Press Release.…

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AusCERT 2004

Jennifer Granick will speak at next week's AusCERT 2004 conference in Australia. Registration is still open.…

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Lose Yoursuit

How did I miss this?  Obnoxious rapper Eminem has sued Apple for using his composition "Lose Yourself" in a commercial for iPod.   In the Apple commer…

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"Neiman Carcass" is Amusing, Not Confusing

The Fund for Animals runs a website using the domain names neimancarcass.com, neimancarcass.org and, of course, neimancarcass.net.  As the domain name suggests,…

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Pop goes the Lawsuit

LL Bean sued 4 companies in Portland, Maine today claiming that the companies deployment of pop-up ads using "LL Bean" as a trigger infringed its trad…

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Siva out of the Library

Last night I finally got to meet Siva, on tour promoting his cool new book The Anarchist in the Library, which he was kind enough to sign for me.   I've bee…