Over the last few months as you know Homeland Security, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been seizing domains that they claim were either selling fake or knockoff goods,…
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China Company: Apple Is Infringing On iPad Trademark & It’s Good Should Be Seized
According to Mondaq.com, a Chinese company, Proview Technology Co., Ltd says that Apple is infringing on the name “ipad”. The company has demanded that Apple to stop its trademark infringement immediately, otherwise…
Chairman Of The IP Committee of the U.S. House Comes Out Swinging Against Leahy Bill
Over the weekend there was some good news out of Washington when Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va said about the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act: “We don’t want to be Egypt,” “Nor…
Maybe I Was Right & Those Government Domain Seizures Weren’t Such A Good Idea After All
The news is full of stories the last couple of days on how during the the last domain seizure “raid” by Homeland Security 84,000 Innocent website wound up getting shut down. You…
Microsoft Now To Allow Advertisers To Use Trademark Terms On Bing/Yahoo
According to a post on Microsoft’s blog, “In a major change in policy, Microsoft has decided to allow marketers to use other companies’ trademarks to trigger search ads.” “To come in line…
WIPO To Enter The Domain Seizure/Take Down Business?
According to IPwatch.com WIPO maybe the newest player wanting to get into the ever expanding, actually quite rapidly expanding, business of Domain “take downs”and Domain Seizures. According to the article the World…
The Senate Judiciary Hearing on Online Theft and Domain Seizure Turns On Google
A lot of attorneys spoke on Capital Hill yesterday on the Senate Judiciary hearing on Online Theft and Domain Seizure Bill. Counsels for Rosetta Stone, Verizon, Visa and Christine Jones from Godaddy…