An article I wrote with Marsha K. Hoover of our firm has been posted to our firm blog, entitled “Six Considerations for Trademark Due Diligence.” I encourage normal readers of this blog who are also interested in trademark practice to check it out.
Category: Trademarks
Will Facebook username squatting be a problem?
On June 13th, at Midnight eastern time, the social networking site Facebook will allow users, and administrators of fan pages with more than 1000 fans, to register vanity URLS. Here are links to the announcement and to the FAQ for page administrators about the process. Trademark owners with registrations can register their trademarks with Facebook…
Article on just what is “Intellectual Property”
Mike Masnick at Techdirt has written the latest in a series of posts which discuss the rationale and basis for what we think of as “Intellectual Property.” It’s a well written series, I’d recommend that you read it. I don’t agree with all he says, but it’s well reasoned. It’s of particular interest to me…
INTA 2007: Muddy waters: Evolving Law and Policy on Internet Advertising
I attended the session this morning at INTA 2007 on Internet advertising, specifically the focus was on keywords but popups were discussed as well. The speakers were Peter Becker of Microsoft, Laura Covington of Yahoo, Lauren Fisher of AOL, and Rose Hagan of Google. The most interesting part for me was a comparison of the…