Archive for the ‘Intellectual Property’ Category
March 6th, 2010
The good people at Xerox don’t want trademark genericide to happen to their copiers, so for years they’ve waged a campaign to remind people that Xerox is a brand, not a synonym for a photocopy. And they’re enlisting Hollywood in that fight. MORE
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August 4th, 2009
Suits over the use of trademarks in Google ads appeared to have the glimmer of a new gold mine for plaintiffs lawyers, but the luster may be fading.
A favorable ruling for Rescuecom Corp. in April in a long-running case against Google Inc. has fueled more suits, including would-be class actions, against the search giant for selling trademarked keywords that trigger ads alongside its search results.
But in the last two weeks, two AdWords lawsuits — from Daniel Jurin and Ascentive LLC — have folded. It highlights the difficulties of the suits, experts say: It’s a hard case to make and it’s expensive to litigate against Google. More
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August 3rd, 2009
We’ll admit it. We’re pretty intrigued by the Kindle over here at the Am Law Daily. Although most of us still read books the old-fashioned way, we occasionally peek over the shoulders of fellow commuters to check out what they’ve downloaded.
Now users of those Kindles we’ve coveted can join a class action suit filed Thursday by Chicago-based plaintiffs shop KamberEdelson that alleges… More
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