If you use a competitor’s trademark in order to generate keywords or search engine results, you’re going to want to read this article. FYI, you must register to see it, but it is well worth it. Ninth Circuit confirms keyword…
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Ninth Circuit confirms keyword advertising is “use in commerce” – Lexology
Posted in Internet Law, Trademark
Apple sues Amazon over ‘App Store’
On March 18, Apple filed a complaint against Amazon in California over Amazon’s use of “App Store,” a trademark owned by Apple. According to Bloomberg, Apple has asked the court to bar Amazon from using the “App Store” name in…
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Posted in Internet Law
eBay and AdWords misuse? – 43(B)log
Interesting tidbit from the eBay v. Craigslist litigation (in which the judge ruled that Craigslist’s majority shareholders breached their duty to minority shareholder eBay in adopting several share-related measures, but not by adopting a staggered board that would make it…
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Posted in Intellectual Property, Internet Law
Customer's Lanham Act claim proceeds
Lufthansa Systems Infratec GMBH v. Wi-SKY Inflight, Inc., 2011 WL 862314 (E.D. Va.) A noncompetitor can maintain a Lanham Act false advertising claim against a potential supplier—at least as long as the supplier doesn’t make the right argument. Here, Wi-SKY…
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Posted in Trademark
