Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA): In addition to transfer of disputed domains, trademark owners can also go after monetary damages. If you're a victim of one of these, you have two options for filing complaints if someone has...
Patent and TrademarkOffice (USPTO) is where you go to file for trademarks that need to be protected. First step to protecting your trademark – use the search engines Here we cover important tips and tactics by online intellectual property...
People need to understand that for most Web site content on the Internet– original articles, text, videos, music, images, etc.somebody probably owns the copyright to that content.explains Clarke Walton, trademark attorney for the Walton Law Firm...
Sued For Trademark Infringement Using Google AdWords DenverPost.com reports that Yahoo was sued by lovecity.com for bidding on the
lovecity.com trademark in Google AdWords. Gartner: Google Likely To Buy Another Online Office App, InformationWeek
The US Patent and TrademarkOffice (USTPO) filings offered us additions to Google phrase searching and predictive queries, some enhancements to interacting with ecommerce sites that appear to be from Yahoo, a Microsoft Answers system and a page...
With Google quiet, a recent flurry of activity burst out at the US Patent and TrademarkOffice from Microsoft and IBM, including the granting of a patent on a music search engine, another on searching recorded voice, and patents (and patent...
But one of our SEW Forum threads points over to In Search Of Stuff, where 2006 isos Search Predictions suggests humorously that this will be the year that Google decides to trademark the word "beta.
The US Patent and TrademarkOffice awarded a patent (not a patent app) to Microsoft today titled: Semi-automatic annotation of multimedia objects. As the retrieval-feedback-annotation cycle is repeated, both annotation coverage and annotation...
Patent and TrademarkOffice today that Google was awarded a patent today that involves technology allowing the searcher to conduct a more comprehensive search by automatically determining equivalent ways (synonyms) to describe their information...
Patent and TrademarkOffice today that Google was awarded a patent today that involves technology allowing the searcher to conduct a more comprehensive search by automatically determining equivalent ways (synonyms) to describe their information...
But my search of US Patent and TrademarkOfficedatabase turned up two other phrases I haven't seen Google use publicly before: "TrustRank"
and "Advertise On The Neighborhood Wide Web. By the way, that other trademark, "It's All About The Results...
Scirus now provides searchable access and direct links to more than 13,000 million "scientific" patents from the United States Patent and TrademarkOffice (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) and the Patent...
Google Loses Trademark Infringement Case in France By Gary Price, Jan. On December 15th Google was victorious in a trademark-infringement lawsuit filed by GEICO in a U.S. However, Google loses trademark dispute in France from News.com reports it...
Patent and TrademarkOffice. Method, system and program for providing indexed web page contents to a search engine database You'll see several brand new IBM search-related patents and pre-grant patent applications in the following update along with...
Overture Settles With Geico Over Trademark Case By Danny Sullivan, Dec. While Geico and Google are still heading to court, as blogged yesterday, MediaPost reports that Geico and Overture have reached a settlement: Overture Settles Trademark...
Or visit the United States Patent and TrademarkOffice Patent Search Menu. Google Unlikely To Ban Trademark-Linked Ads. Patent Office. You can also search most of the world's patent granting organizations via links on this handy page maintained by...
The US Patent & TrademarkOffice comes up tops, as is the case with competitors. Is MSN hitting less than the full Yahoo database? NOTE: New information on the MSN crawler has been updated into the Crawler Info section since this page was posted.
Using the free search service offered by the US Patent & TrademarkOffice makes more sense to get a definitive answer than trolling through 3 billion web pages. For instance, want to know if someone has registered a trademark with the US government?
Using the free search service offered by the US Patent & TrademarkOffice makes more sense to get a definitive answer than trolling through 3 billion web pages. For instance, want to know if someone has registered a trademark with the US government?
A court previously had granted a preliminary injunction saying that Taxes.com's use of the J.K Harris name constituted trademark infringement, as it was seen as causing Taxes.com to rank well for "J.K.