According to the Milwaukee Journal, Best Buy has no love for the God Squad and is suing them for infringing on their trademark for the Geek Squad, even though the user of God Squad is a priest. Father Luke Strand received a cease-and-desist letter about his car, a Volkswagen Beetle has oval door stickers that read "God Squad" . "Paula Baldwin, senior manager for public relations at Best … [Read more...]

Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) wrote an excellent article and published it on the ICA site last night. The article points out what we have talked about for quite a while. There is a huge gap in the trademark law on 2 fronts. The first is he difference between trademark law as applied to domains in the UDRP/WIPO settings, ICANN rules and trademark law as applied to … [Read more...]

The Internet Gambling Regulation and Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act, HR 2267,  which would legalize online gambling in the United States, passed the House Committee on Financial Services last week. The committee voted in favor of the bill,  41-22 advancing the legislation to the House floor. The bill sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) chairman of the House Financial Services … [Read more...]

"""Advertise.com, appealed the district court's entry of a preliminary injunction barring it from using a designation or trade name that is confusingly similar to Appellees' ("AOL") ADVERTISING.COM mark. The district court enjoined Advertise.com from using "any design mark or logo that is confusingly similar to the stylized forms of AOL's ADVERTISING.COM marks" and from using the … [Read more...]

The newest spam hitting my Inbox is coming from a company trying to get me to use them to register trademarks on domains I have registered: Here is how the email reads: "Dear Entrepreneur: "We are contacting you with the purpose of helping you avoid infringement problems with your new trademark or domain name!" "You might be starting a business, and as a responsible entrepreneur you … [Read more...]

Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com) published an article tonight on Verisign and the CFIT case pending against it. The article quotes Mark McLaughli, Chief Executive of Verisign saying that the company "has 90 days following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' July 9 decision to decide whether it will request further appellate review ... at the Supreme Court level, or have the case remanded for … [Read more...]