Thousands of people in the UK, suspected of sharing music, films and games over the Internet will be pursued through the courts for damages, lawyers for entertainment companies said on Wednesday.
London-based law firm Davenport Lyons said it will apply to the High Court to force Internet service providers to release the names and addresses of […]

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I have read many stories this week about Mygazines.com a website that allows people to copy and upload popular magazines that are currently on newsstands.
Visitors can read high quality digital copies of dozens of current titles, including People, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Health and The Economist, just to name a few, in their entirety.
The site, with […]

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John Berryhill won on behalf of his client a reverse highjacking finding in a recent WIPO case.
The case bought by a Swiss company which is a “”large manufacturer of consumer foods, which it markets under the trademark and business name HERO. The Complainant was founded in Switzerland in the late 19th century. Its mark and […]

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According to a report in Media Post Today, Google has been hit with a fraud lawsuit from its parked domain program, which serves pay-per-click ads on Web pages for a third time this summer.
This newest case, a potential class-action lawsuit, filed this week in federal district court in Chicago, was brought by a container company,  […]

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According to a report released today by the Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) report for the first half of 2008, cyber criminals are using ‘blended attacks’ to distribute malware and links to hacked websites via email on an unprecedented scale.
Unpatched browsers are putting more than 45 percent of Internet users at risk when […]

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The .ME registry just sold toyota.me for the whopping price of $90,025.
Not only is it the highest price ever paid for a .me it is agoing to be a litigation nightmare for the new owner.
We all expect that Toyota.me will draw a federal lawsuit or a WIPO action in the near future.
If Toyota waits say […]

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There’s a new type of lawsuit coming against PPC advertisers and domainers, about search marketing and the right to bid on trademarked or just competitive terms.
In this particular case Nike sued a New Hampshire outdoor sporting goods retailer, Eastern Mountain Sports, which does not sell any Nike clothing, for bidding on the term “Dri-Fit” in […]

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This guest post was written by Richard Douglas. His blog is called Too Many Secrets.
If you travel a lot, you should prepare yourself to be searched and asked a few questions. Mike wrote about laptop and cell phone search and seizure before the Paris meet-up.
The US Customs and Border Service has posted their official […]

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As you are aware it was reported Thursday by the Intellectual Property Watch the Bush Administration has no intention of giving up control of the central root servers that control the internet.
This was not new news.  The Bush Administration has turned down requests to give up the control in the past few years.
However as we […]

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Hasbro which sells the Scrabble board game, has sued over the Knockoff game on Facebook called Scrabulous.
Hasbro on Thursday filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit in New York against the creators of the ad-supported Scrabulous application, which boasts an astonishing half-a million daily users.
Hasbro said of Scrabulos “This is theft of intellectual property, It’s really […]

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