We grew up being told by our parents that crime doesn’t pay, yet after today’s report, sometimes it does. ThePiratebay.org, a huge file sharing site, reportedly sold today to a Internet gaming…
Category: Legal
eBay.com Is Allowing & Profiting From The Sale Of Trademark Infringing Domains
eBay.com has been active in defending its trademark filing and winning at least 3 UDRP in just the past year including on the domains: ebaycatwalk.com; ebayip.com and ebayofip.com; watch-ebay.com; While spending fees…
Download “Free” Music? Guess Its Not Free If It Costs $80K Per Song
Outside the world of domains, but right up the alley of intellectual property, a federal court just issued a judgment against a “free” music file sharer for $1.9 million dollars or $80,000…
Microsoft Sues 3 For Click Fraud
According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Monday against three people they allege committed a form of “click fraud” by improperly manipulating Microsoft’s online advertising service for profit….
Hate UDRP’s: Say Hello To Something Much Worse, The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS): Get Ready To Lose Your Domains
Trademark holders, unhappy with UDRP’s, a system under which they already have over a 85% win rate, formed a group, The Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), which was given committee status by ICANN’s…
Google Sued Again: This is Going to Be A Huge Issue
Google has been hit with another AdWords-related lawsuit, this time by a Connecticut law firm.The personal injury firm Stratton, Faxon filed a suit in the New Haven Superior Court alleging that its…
“The Privatization of the English Language” & Why That is Very Bad News For You
Over at ZenHabits, a insanely popular blog with an Alex Ranking of 15K , Leo Babauta, the author talked about what appears to be the privatization of the English language through trademark…