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Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks. As of the beginning of this month Google will no longer police the unauthorised use of trademarks in any new keyword purchases. [30 Apr 2008]
Leader: Think big, not different
Leader But any business which today is choosing trademarks or reviewing trademark contracts - and hoping to escape multimillion-pound legal fees and settlements - should attempt not just to 'think different' but to 'think big' and protect its interests... [08 May 2006]
Google in court over ad trademark spat
News Damages would be awarded if Geico's trademarks are found to have been infringed by non-Geico ads that refer to Geico. Although Geico senior counsel Jonathan Shafner said on Tuesday the court opinion signalled that the judge wants the two sides to... [17 Aug 2005]
Ask the Lawyer: Trademark disputes and stopping spammers
Comment I thought this kind of trademark abuse would be covered by the same kind of regulations that cover use of other organisation's trademarks as keywords in website meta tags, etc. The latest case dealing with the use of trademarks on the internet is... [27 Apr 2005]
Google gets French lesson in trademarks
News In December, a judge in Virginia ruled that as a matter of law, Google's use of Geico trademarks to trigger ads did not constitute trademark infringement and that Geico had not proven its case for dilution sufficiently. [21 Jan 2005]
SCO suits see victory…
News The APA specifically excluded all copyrights from transfer but the amendment then added into the transfer "the copyrights and trademarks owned by Novell.required for [the Santa Cruz Operation] to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition... [14 Jun 2004]
Analysis: Search engines take the stand
Comment And an enterprising federal judge in New York did his own Google search to demonstrate that a watch, jeans and handbag retailer named Alfredo Versace was infringing the trademarks of the famous Gianni Versace design house. [13 May 2004]
Google pet shop lawsuit gets go ahead
News The legal status of trademarks used in sponsored link advertising remains murky. A federal judge in New York has rejected requests from Google and Overture Services to throw out a lawsuit that claimed the two search firms unlawfully sold... [07 Apr 2004]
Microsoft's "legal assault" on Lindows: The verdict is in
News The protracted battle over trademarks between the world's biggest software company and a small Linux reseller appears to have been partially resolved - and the verdict isn't the one that Lindows.com wanted. [06 Apr 2004]
Lindows vs Microsoft spat hits new turf
News The Microsoft representative said Microsoft must protect its trademarks to retain them. The judge hearing the US cases has sided with Lindows in denying Microsoft's requests for an injunction against the company. [20 Feb 2004]
Adwords lands Google in the dock
News In his suit, Dariot accused Google of having sold its trademarks to rival tourism sites under the Adwords scheme - trademarks which were duly registered with the French National Industrial Ownership Institute. [20 Oct 2003]
5 years ago... Corporate giants win domain name case
News The judge ruled yesterday that brands such as BT have become so well known they must be treated as trademarks. 24.07.98 The UK Court of Appeal has quashed two men's attempts to register the brand names of major businesses as web domains. [24 Jul 2003]
Microsoft has 'dubious' claim over Windows trademark
News Coughenour questioned the validity of Microsoft's Windows trademarks, saying that the word was so widely used in the industry before Microsoft released its first Windows-branded product that the company would be likely to lose any trademark... [18 Mar 2002]
Excite faces oblivion
News At the beginning of November, the company entered an agreement with Infospace for a $10m sale of certain domain names, trademarks and user traffic. Excite@home in the US is on the brink of dumping its ISP customers if a court judge decides on... [28 Nov 2001]
Big brands get online legal backing
News A US appeals court has ruled that companies who use their rivals' trademarks in Web addresses or meta tags can be sued for trademark infringement. You'd have a judge saying, we don't normally recognise your trademark, but this is a global marketplace. [26 Apr 1999]
