Posts Tagged ‘trademark’

Synopsis
The owners of trademark registrations issued before September 1, 2011 have a short window of time within which to block others from registering their trademarks as .xxx domains.
Background
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the nonprofit organization charged with coordinating the internet’s naming system. As [...]

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday that fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) requires proof of actual intent to deceive, which may not be inferred merely because a trademark applicant made a misstatement that it should have known was false. The court held that “a trademark is [...]

Recently, both Legal Literacy and Wisconsin Business Law and Litigation have blogged about the dangers of including another’s trademark in your website’s metatags. (If you’re unfamiliar with metatags and want to see some for yourself, click on “View” [in the Firefox or Explorer browsers], then “Page Source” or “Source.”)
Believing that search engines use metatags to [...]