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• Company Can Use Rival’s Trademark as Web Page ‘Placement Strategy’

  A business that gets its Web site link to show up in Internet search results by using a competitor's trademark in its keywords does not infringe the mark under federal law, a New York federal judge has ruled.

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• Court: Google’s Use of Trademarks As Keywords Is Non-Infringing

  A federal judge in New York has just ruled that Google's practice of selling trademarks as keywords that trigger links to particular Web sites other than those of the trademark holders does not constitute infringement because Google does not actually "use" the trademarks within the meaning of the law.

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• WIPO Proposals: What Me Worry?

  Between December 2nd and 20th, delegates from the member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) convened to consider certain conventions concerning copyright in the Internet Age.

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• Interview on Madrid Protocol Multinational Trademark Registration with Attorneys Mary Shapiro and Mark Steiner

  An Interview on the Madrid Protocol Multinational Trademark Registration with Attorneys Mary Shapiro and Mark Steiner.

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• With Trademark Dilution “Likely” Again, Famous Mark Owners Pick Up Where They Left Off

  Remember the days, 16 January 1996 until 4 March 2003, when many thought federal trademark dilution law required proof based on a "likelihood" of dilution, rather than "actual" dilution? Remember when Victor's Little Secret spoiled Victoria's Secret's party?

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• FAQ: Domain Names

  As a mark, a domain name can infringe other marks used in everyday commerce. In the past, Network Solutions, Inc. ("NSI"), which provides domain name registration services, did not participate in domain name disputes. Their new policy requires all applicants to represent the use of their domain name doesn't infringe a third party's mark or company name.

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• Deciding Domain Name Disputes

  Network Solutions, Inc. ( NSI ) processes more than 600 applications daily for domain names. With this request explosion, Internet users, innocently or intentionally, sometimes select domain names identical or substantially similar to trademarks or service marks of other organizations. NSI has neither the authority or adeptness to adjudicate domain disputes. What's a mark owner to do?

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• Lawyers.com Ruled Too Generic to Trademark

  A company seeking to register the "Lawyers.com" mark received some bad news out of the Federal Circuit. The court upheld the Patent and Trademark Office's determination that the mark was too generic in relation to the kinds of services offered on the website, and affirmed the PTO's denial of the registration.

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• Creative Commons Seeking To Build Layer of “Reasonable Copyright”

  Have you heard of Creative Commons? If not yet, you may soon. Creative Commons consists of a US charitable corporation and a UK not-for-profit company that has the underlying message that "some people may not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them."

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• The Copyright Act Faces Down the Net

  On July 7, 1994, the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, chaired by the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Bruce A. Lehman , issued a Report detailing proposed changes to the 1976 Copyright Act to address computer programs and the Net. This group is a part of the Information Policy Committee, which is one-third of the Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF), chaired by Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, designed to "articulate and implement the Administration's vision for the National Information Infrastructure".

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