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Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment The new policy still prevents other advertisers from including trademarks in their ad copy without permission and although other brands can bid on a trademark, only the authentic brand's ad will actually have the trademark within it. [30 Apr 2008]
Asian firms 'starting to see the value of IP'
News Weerawit added that Asian companies "know the value of trademarks and blockbusters, and that's why they choose the easy way out - copying". Gordon Smith, chairman of US-based business consultancy Aus, said there is market evidence Asian companies... [22 Aug 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. The Razr has proved the star of Motorola's handset... [11 May 2006]
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 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]
easyMobile: Help us poke fun at Orange
News The pair are currently at loggerheads over easyMobile's use of the colour orange in advertising - Orange says easyMobile is infringing its trademarks, easyMobile says companies in the easyGroup have always used orange branding and always will. [15 Nov 2005]
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. A written opinion, released on 8 August by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, said Geico had sufficiently... [17 Aug 2005]
Firefox branding is a burning issue
News In the UK and the US, the foundation has applied for the trademarks but approval is still pending. However, Netscape is still registered in the UK and the US as owning the 'Mozilla' and 'Mozilla.org' trademarks. [16 Jun 2005]
Ask the Lawyer: Trademark disputes and stopping spammers
Comment Most English lawyers would nevertheless advise their clients to be wary of using meta tags or keywords which are identical to registered trademarks since the likelihood of receiving a claim for trademark infringement will be high. [27 Apr 2005]
Microsoft sues 117 phishing websites
News In one of the phishing suits previously filed by Microsoft, Iowa resident Jayson Harris, aged 21, was found guilty in December 2004 of violating the company's trademarks. The suits, filed on Thursday in Seattle in the US District Court for the... [01 Apr 2005]
iTunes 'cybersquatter' takes Apple name battle to High Court
News Nominet-appointed expert Claire Milne ruled the registration took "unfair advantage" of Apple's trademarks and decided "on the balance of probabilities, I find the domain name.is an abusive registration on the grounds of its use in a manner taking... [29 Mar 2005]
Orange and easyMobile go to war over colour
News Mobile operator Orange has filed a suit against no-frills newcomer easyMobile, claiming the company is infringing its trademarks. I believe their trademarks are invalid and we will attack them in court. [21 Feb 2005]
Software and hardware piracy a $90m business
News Glen Gieschen, managing director of Gieschen Consulting, said in a statement that 32 per cent of the counterfeit incidents last month involved some form of intellectual property such as brands, trademarks or patents. [18 Jan 2005]
Excel finally gets registered
News Microsoft has posted an online guide to using the trademarks and names of products in its Office package, including Excel and Word. Curiously, a glance at Microsoft's own trademark list shows that company has not officially registered trademarks... [12 Nov 2004]
