This case was also dismissed, with the court finding her name wasn't protected under the Lanham Act. Beverly Stayart is now 0-3 trying to sue search engines for vanity search results. Last week her case against Google for the search suggestion [bev...
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Beverly Stayart argued that the results were a false endorsement under the Lanham Act. This past February, a woman who was none too pleased with the search results for her name sued Yahoo! The court has now dismissed her lawsuit, but since part of...
Today, we're thinking of keyword suggestion tools and the nature of search advertising as it applies to protection offered by case law and the Lanham Act. Lanham Introspective When President Harry Truman signed the Lanham Act into law in 1946, I'm...
Adding more confusion to the case law surrounding trademark issues and search advertising, a Sixth Circuit federal court in Kentucky found that keyword advertising is a "trademark use in commerce" under the Lanham Act.
If you can enable an end user to accurately search a content library, you could empower the content owner to virally syndicate their clips, and empower the user at the same time," said Drew Lanham, SVP Media for Nexidia.
Google opted for "false advertising" claims against Stoller under the Lanham Act, but it may be troublesome for Google to prove that it has standing to bring those charges, since it's not in the trademark-licensing business.
