Second Circuit rejects foreign famous marks doctrine federally, certifies state question: ITC Ltd. v. Punchgini, Inc., — F.3d —-, 2007 WL 914742 (2nd Cir.) The Second Circuit, after a long wait, has finally ruled on the validity of the famous…
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Yearly Archives: 2007
Second Circuit rejects foreign famous marks doctrine federally, certifies state question
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The messy intersection of copyright, trade secret, and false advertising
The messy intersection of copyright, trade secret, and false advertising: PrecisionFlow Technologies, Inc. v. CVD Equipment Corp., 2007 WL 844893 (N.D.N.Y.) Plaintiff PFT, which makes custom gas and chemical delivery systems and provides computer chip fabrication services, sued CVD for…
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Posted in Intellectual Property
Is This Use Of The Mark In Commerce?
Is This Use Of The Mark In Commerce?: MIT Ad Lab: The advent of Internet-based flight tracking technology enables an entirely new kind of skywriting. Gulfstream Aerospace sent up one of their $50M business jets today on an 8.5-hour test…
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NoDaddy / GoDaddy – The Trademark Blog
NoDaddy / GoDaddy: Further to the de-registration of a domain name by registrar, GoDaddy, the former registrant has now put up NoDaddy.com.
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Appeals court dismisses Kahle et al. v. Gonzales
Appeals court dismisses Kahle et al. v. Gonzales: Xeni Jardin: Rick Prelinger says, Unfortunately, we’ve lost again. In this appeal (passionately argued by Larry Lessig) we hoped to establish that “the change from an “opt-in” to an “opt-out” copyright system…
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Google’s Top-10 Search Terms Dominated By Trademarks
Google’s Top-10 Search Terms Dominated By Trademarks: According to Google’s 2006 Year-End Review, dubbed Zeitgeist, or the cultural climate of an era, a majority of the top-ten search terms for 2006 were trademarks. Topping the list is the registered BEBO…
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