The European Union highest court, The European Court of Justice, issued an “interim legal opinion” that Google does not infringed on trademark holders rights, by allowing advertisers to buy keywords of registered…
Category: Legal
Indian Marriage Site, BharatMatrimony.com, Gets Injunction Against Google From Selling Trademarked Keywords
Consim.com, an Indian company which owns many Indian dating and matrimony sites, sued Google several weeks ago in India for selling keywords under some of its trademarked sites. Last week, an Indian…
Keyword Suit Skips Google & Goes Forward Against The Advertiser, ABC.com
There are several cases in the where the issue of whether the purchase of keywords under a trademarked term violates the Lanham Act and whether it constitutes unfair competition. Many of these…
WIPO Decision: Use Of Privacy On Domain Registration = Bad Faith: ShoeZone.com
In a one panel WIPO decision ordering the transfer of the domain, ShoeZone.com to the holder of a UK trademark, the use of Moniker.com privacy service on its registration was found to…
A Landing Page That Looks Like A Google Search Results Page: Asking For Trouble?
Typing in some domains, I stumbled across a landing page, that looks like a Google search results page. The parking company, is FirstLook.com, using a Yahoo feed. Not only have I never…
Can You Be Sued For Defamation For Just Registering A Domain? We Maybe About To Find Out
Defamation, is a tort action where one party can sue the other for damages, when they make false statements about the other, in writing (libel) and spoken words (slander) which damages that…
KOC.com Lost In UDRP Second Time Around: Non Resolving Page Is “Bad Faith”
The domain Koc.com was awarded in a UDRP, to the holder of a trademark in Turkey which owns Koc.com.tr. As in most of these cases, the facts are long on both sides….