Sports teams need to monitor cyberspace to protect the value of their IP
If anyone were to doubt the value of the intellectual property that comes with sports teams, one need only look at Sports Licensing and Sports Marketing, two resources published by EPM Communications. It’s no surprise then that sports organizations would face potential cybersquatting threats. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet [...]
Trademark Clearinghouse launched to help protect brands rights holders
Yesterday the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) was activated, designed to help companies protect their trademarks (through registration only) from infringers trying to use another’s mark to the left of the dot in URLs. ICANN’s new gTLD program, which allows for unlimited opportunities to create domain names to the right of the dot (for a substantial fee) [...]
News, Views and Muse
What is the value of a trademark when the owner is prohibited from collecting associated revenues? Johnny Manziel, quarterback of Texas A&M, and winner of the 2012 Heisman trophy awarded to the nation’s best collegiate footballer, has a corporation (JMAN2 Enterprises) that owns the trademark rights (application to USPTO dated Feb.2, 2013) to Johnny Football [...]
Round one of the “appstore” controversy goes to Amazon (and Microsoft … and Google … )
Yesterday, in a victory for common sense, the US District Court for the Northern District of California found that Amazon’s use of the term “appstore” in conjunction with sales of non-Apple devices did not constitute false advertising. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this [...]
IP value is finally a boardroom discussion
IP value is finally finding its way onto boardroom agenda items, though perhaps not as much through discussion of opportunities as through mitigation of risk. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post
Google continues to dodge trademark infringement bullets with its AdWords policy
Google AdWords enables organizations to promote their offerings on the web on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis. The advertiser specifies the keywords to be targeted and how much he or she is willing to pay for each click through. When searchers type in the targeted keyword, advertisers’ ads appear dependent upon how much they are paying. [...]
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Canadian folk singer wins out in copyright spat with … the government mint Because of the cover photo containing a few Canadian pennies on a countertop, Nova Scotia folk singer Dave Gunning was informed by the Royal Canadian Mint that though there would be no charge for the first 2,000 sales of his album No [...]
Red soles on shoes can be a trademark says appellate court
French shoemaker Christian Louboutin SA sued Yves St. Laurent last year to keep it from stepping on its trademarked red-soled shoes, long identified with the Louboutin brand. A lower court found that the color could likely not qualify as a trademark, but The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled differently, finding that Louboutin had [...]
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Embedding or linking to copyrighted material does not infringe Last week, Judge Richard Posner and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Flava Works, Inc v. Marques Rondale Gunter, et al, rejected the premise that embedding, linking to, or watching infringing videos constitutes copyright infringement. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about [...]
ICANN is scheduled to reveal the new top-level domain names (gTLDs)
Wednesday is “Reveal Day,” the day ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will disclose the identities of the 2,000 (potential) new top level domain names (gTLDs). Doug Isenberg of The GigaLawFirm advises trademark owners what to do: Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments [...]
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