TF1 sued YouTube and Dailymotion back in 2008 for intellectual property abuse, seeking damages for alleged copyright infringement on sports and movies that were uploaded to YouTube by users. And in 2005, they lost their appeal on the trademark case...
Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, first filed in 2009 and dismissed by a Virginia court in August 2010, has been revived by a federal appeals court. At issue: whether the sale of trademarked search keywords to the...
A U.S.district court in New York issued a ruling in favor of the company, ordering the defendants to pay $583 million in damages from violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, as well as $27 million in damages for trademark infringement.
Google AdWords is no stranger to trademark infringement law suits. Buying ads based on a competitor's name doesn't violate trademark law, a court has ruled, overturning a lawsuit over AdWords and adCenter ads displaying trademarked names.
Rosenberg shares his insights about a business case that involves alleged trademark infringement via a client's competitor using Google AdWords, and expert legal information on how marketers should protect theirs' and their clients' trademarks...
One unexpected, but very likely side effect of going to court over trademark infringement, is that it can also open your own trademark properties and activities up to scrutiny.Eric Goldman, assistant professor and director of the High Tech Law...
With a growing number of trademark infringement lawsuits against search engines, and a general ignorance by state and federal legislators on the true application of trademark law itself, few legal guidelines are currently in place for search...
Because of such wide online proliferation of "benign infringement" of intellectual property in user-generated content (UGC) sites, do you think businesses will become inclined to have a more flexible stance on going after benign users?
Take the case with trademarks search ads – if there's a likelihood of consumer confusion being caused by the particular use, then there is a possibility of a trademark infringement. One of the issues the courts are struggling with is, is there a...
I don't believe that bidding on a trademark as a keyword constitutes a real use in commerce, and thus wouldn't qualify as trademark infringement. The increase of user-generated content online has resulted in a heavy rise of copyright and trademark...
It won't help you with other legal problems, such as trademark, domain, or online reputation infringement issues. Copyright infringement (aka "copyright violation"), as defined by Copyright Law of the United States of America, occurs when a person...
American Airlines Files Trademark Infringement Case Against Google, ClickZ reasons not to read my SEO blog, Cornwall SEO American Airlines Suing Google Over Trademark ViolationSeems American Airlines has not read about previous law suits over...
The most common legal theories used in PPC cases are trademark infringement and typosquatting. Something to think about the next time your client asks you to push the envelope in bidding on competitors' trademark names (another topic for a future...
In theory, this is significant because trademark owners would love to be able to assert a dilution claim against keyword advertisers along with the standard trademark infringement claim. In a long-running court case between exercise equipment...
Edina Realty is suing for trademark infringement and trademark dilution and would be the "first case" to do so, in court. Postscript: Also read Eric Goldman from Marquette University Law School thoughts on this here.
Dealing with Trademark Infringement Competitor's Keyword Ad Purchase May Be Trademark Infringement. Therefore, it was a pleasure, to hear views on meatier topics covered at the 2006 SES New York panel "Trademark Protection and Copyright.
Using someone else's trademark in the metadata, even if it didn't affect the ranking in the search engines, could still be considered infringement," added Matt Naeger, Vice President and General Counsel at IMPAQT.
Using someone else's trademark in the metadata, even if it didn't affect the ranking in the search engines, could still be considered infringement," added Matt Naeger, Vice President and General Counsel at IMPAQT.
The judge found that there was infringement where the terms were used in the text of sponsored ads.In a ruling issued on Monday [8/8/05], Judge Brinkema ruled that GEICO had ? In her written ruling, she stated that the evidence "refutes the...
Google over trademark infringement relating to paid ads is being allowed to go forward to trial. Search Engines Turning Trademark Law Upside Down and Trademark Case from InternetNews.com notes that American Blind's case against
