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Google's New Adwording Policy in Europe
As of yesterday, Google’s new policy concerning registration of trademarks as keywords for triggering contextual advertisement in many European countries went i…
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The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…
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ICANN's Plan for New Top Level Domains
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 m…
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Court Declines to Follow Other Circuits on Use of Trademarks in Metadata
Declining to follow similar cases in other circuits, a federal district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that a website’s attempt to increas…
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Providing Unauthorized Link to Live Audio Webcast Likely Constitutes Copyright Infringement
Plaintiff, formerly SFX Motor Sports, Inc. (now Live Nation Motor Sports, Inc.), produces motorcycle racing events known as Supercross and broadcasts these race…
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Domain Names and Trademarks
For those of you who are interested in domain names issues I have made this piece available on my SSRN page. It addresses the interface between registration of…
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The Battle over Metatagging in Germany is Over
Earlier this year the German Federal High Court held trademarks metatagging unlawful. The “impuls” holding (in German) available for download here. According to…
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Keywording and Trademarks Paper
I've just posted a new SSRN working paper on keywording advertising in search engines. Comments are welcome.…