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eBay pirates cough up $100,000 in ill-gotten gains
News Kevin Liu and GT Tian admitted in a California court to infringing copyright and trademarks of Norton pcAnywhere, Norton SystemWorks 2005 Premier, and Norton Ghost. The lawsuit was brought against the pair by the Software & Information Industry... [27 Nov 2006]
Dot-eu 'warehousing' scandal strikes US registrars
News Domains with a dot-eu extension became generally available earlier this year, following a "sunrise period" where European companies and organisations got first option on their names and trademarks. EURid, the organisation that administers the dot... [25 Jul 2006]
Motorola cuts off Razr copycat
News KBT, which sold the Razr-alikes in Asia, has agreed to stop manufacturing the devices after Motorola filed a lawsuit against the company alleging infringement of trademarks, designs and patents. Motorola has won a court case against a Korean... [11 May 2006]
Google under pressure as keyword lawsuit gets the nod
News Eric Goldman, assistant professor of law at Marquette University Law School, wrote on his blog on Wednesday: "This case offers the first solid data point [in the US] that buying competitors' trademarks as keywords.could constitute trademark... [30 Mar 2006]
GPLv3 gets public airing
News Stallman fielded several detailed legal questions from open source contributors on several topics, including licence compatibility; the patent retaliation clause; trademarks; and issues that arise when GPL software links to non-GPL software, such... [18 Jan 2006]
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]
5 years ago: Playboy gets legal with browsers
News A story last month on silicon.com shows that Hugh Hefner won't have his trademarks linked with just any old smut. 15.02.1999: US men's magazine Playboy has filed a lawsuit against Netscape and Excite, claiming the internet search engines are making... [13 Feb 2004]
Playboy sues AOL with the breast lawyers in town
News Any web users who typed Playboy or Playmate - trademarks of Hef's porn empire - into Netscape's search engine were presented with pop-ups that imitated the Playboy style, but weren't official Playboy merchandise. [16 Jan 2004]
Microsoft takes open source spat to Europe
News The latest action involves Microsoft's European trademarks for the Windows name. Lawyers representing the software company in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (the Benelux countries) and in Sweden sent letters to Lindows and several PC... [09 Dec 2003]
Contract clause boosts SCO
News It was modified to exclude from transfer "all copyrights and trademarks, except for the copyrights and trademarks owned by Novell as of the date of the agreement, required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of Unix and... [06 Jun 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]
Afilias tightens-up on dot-info
News It will also be taking two steps to strengthen its Sunrise policies and challenge process - the system whereby trademarks get priority for the corresponding domain name. Amazon faces lawsuit in dot-biz squabble http://www.silicon.com/a46564 [06 Dec 2001]
Dot-biz opens the door to cyber squatters
News Under the terms of its registration process, established brands are not guaranteed tenure of their own trademarks and have to compete with members of the public. However, Neulevel, the registrar responsible for dot-biz, is still fighting a lawsuit... [07 Nov 2001]
Dot-info available for anyone who wants it
News Neulevel, the registrar responsible for dot-biz claimed that the recent terrorist attacks were still affecting original deadlines, although the California-based group is fighting a lawsuit that claims its registration process is illegal under... [01 Oct 2001]
Amazon files lawsuit against Amazon
News Nick Lockett, Internet expert at UK law firm, Sidley & Austin, says judges must take a much tougher line in domain name disputes, or take responsibility for developing a sub-class of Internet trademarks. [23 Aug 1999]
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