Just ranted about the infringement suit on my blog – I don’t think anyone sees Microsoft suffering much from this but there are complexities to the case that should make it interesting.

The distinction here is less clear, and it may be reasonable to consider one company diverging into the other’s market. Both trademarks specify online advertising activity as part of the business.

Even if they are considered dissimilar the priority mark would win all other factors equal – pretty clear MS has clarity and a much stronger mark.

All this free publicity is a sure motive though.

Now bing is a generic word, and Microsoft WILL be suing you if you own say bing*anything*.com – Which I think is bullocks because they are a search engine thus claiming anything can be related to BING and since they are MSFT you will instantly lose your domain. But of course since the law of domains are governed by corporations, evil, and money — parking a domain is considered “bad-faith” and half the nut-jobs on these blogs and forums agree w/ that, so I guess don’t park any domain w/ “bing” in it.

When are the lawsuits going to end? Why is everything translatable to $$$? If you fall on wet floor, that somehow = money for you. If you burn yourself w/ hot-coffee then you should get lots of money… There should be a law, if you lose a lawsuit against somebody you should have to pay the amount you are suing for. This to me makes perfect sense.

Can you go to court to stop a URS from happening?

Where do you get that from?

Their lawyers would be in court to stop the URS request faster than you can say “bing”

This applies to any large company or site.