After all, should Google only let trademark holders link ads to trademarks, you might find people like Playboy's 1981 Playmate Of Year Terri Welles suing for the right to use a trademark to describe her products and services.
The defendants were also using the terms Playboy and Playmate in the site names, the domain names and in their slogans. Playboy sued the operators of now-defunct web sites for using "Playboy" and "Playmate" in their URLs and meta tags, among other...
This is in fact the successful argument that Terri Welles, a former Playboy Playmate Of The Year, made for the right to use terms such as "Playboy" and "Playmate" on her page. When is it OK to use trademarks in a meta tags?
In her site's meta tags were some trademarked terms that belonged to Playboy: "Playboy, playmate, playmate of the year. Terry Welles was Playmate of the Year for Playboy in 1981. Playboy went through the trouble of a lawsuit because they had two...
In another ruling this month by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, former Playboy Playmate Terri Welles was found not to have violated Playboy's trademark rights by using the terms "playboy" and "playmate" within the meta tags on her web site.
In another ruling this month by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, former Playboy Playmate Terri Welles was found not to have violated Playboy's trademark rights by using the terms "playboy" and "playmate" within the meta tags on her web site.
In that case, Playboy filed suit against Excite and Netscape for running keyword-linked banner ads that appeared for terms such as "playboy" and "playmate. Playboy is currently appealing the case. It would have been terrible for the court to have...
Not all web searches utilizing the words 'Playboy,' 'Playmate,' and 'Playboy Playmate of the Year 1981' are intended to find 'Playboy' goods of the official 'Playboy' site. Welles' fame and recognition derive from her popularity as a Playboy model...
You may recall the case involving Playboy and Terri Welles, the 1981 Playmate of the Year. Her use of the terms "playboy" and "playmate" in her meta tags was one of the central points in Playboy's argument of infringement.
You may recall the case involving Playboy and Terri Welles, the 1981 Playmate of the Year. Her use of the terms "playboy" and "playmate" in her meta tags was one of the central points in Playboy's argument of infringement.
In January, Playboy sued Excite for selling banner ads that appeared in response to searches for "playboy" and "playmate. Playboy Loses In Excite Banner Dispute In the Playboy case, the US District Court apparently ruled that the disputed terms...
In January, Playboy sued Excite for selling banner ads that appeared in response to searches for "playboy" and "playmate. Search Engine Briefs + Search Within, Text-Only Features At HotBot + Northern Light Adds Clustering + Playboy Loses In Excite...
In January, Playboy sued Excite for selling banner ads that appeared in response to searches for "playboy" and "playmate. Search Engine Briefs + Search Within, Text-Only Features At HotBot + Northern Light Adds Clustering + Playboy Loses In Excite...
In January, Playboy sued Excite for selling banner ads that appeared in response to searches for "playboy" and "playmate. Search Engine Coverage Study Out + Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos + AltaVista Adds Open Directory, Personalized Page...
A US court recently upheld the right for a former Playboy Playmate of the Year to use trademarked terms in her web site's meta tags, in order to properly classify the site with search engines. The key difference with the case Playboy filed against...
