As they continue to toe the line between search engine and publisher/content curator with the launch of Knowledge Graph features, Google may well expect further legal battles and complaints from copyright holders and creators of original content.
We've worked hard to help rights holders deal with piracy. Two bills currently making their way through congress -- SOPA and PIPA -- give the US government and copyright holders extraordinary powers including the ability to hijack DNS and censor...
That offer allowed rights holders to get payment directly from Google based on how much their copyrighted content was used on YouTube. The technology will be used to identify the use of copyrighted music and make appropriate payments to the rights...
INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF YAHOO! Investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the registration statement and the proxy statement/prospectus (when available) and other documents filed with the SEC by Microsoft Corp...
Jon summarized by saying that despite patent ownership that theoretically offers competitive protection to the holders, all search engines tend to use similar tactics in their ranking algorithms. According to the US Patent and Trademark Office...
Jon summarized by saying that despite patent ownership that theoretically offers competitive protection to the holders, all search engines tend to use similar tactics in their ranking algorithms. According to the US Patent and Trademark Office...
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.
I would think that any ban on trademarks would have to be an opt-out situation by the TM [trademark” holder - probably most TM holders are happy to have their agents and resellers promoting the brand.
Trademark Holders Don't Automatically Win Similar Domain Names, Federal Judge Rules The Legal Intelligencer, Aug. Just because you hold a trademark doesn't mean you are entitled to take a domain name that makes use of the mark away from someone...
In other words: Sorry trademark holders, we're going to let anyone bid on the brand terms that you've spent so much money to establish with consumers. The conservative recommendation is to continue avoid bidding on trademark-related keywords unless:
Trademark holders can now officially lay claim to a .biz domain. When the .info domain was launched, only trademark owners were allowed to register names for a short period before all names were opened up to grabs.
The auction style of bidding that ensues in paid search engines led several trademark holders to File complaints, because unauthorized websites have been able to place bids on keyword terms which may also be considered generic phrases by the...
The auction style of bidding that ensues in paid search engines led several trademark holders to File complaints, because unauthorized websites have been able to place bids on keyword terms which may also be considered generic phrases by the...
Study of Domain Name Arbitration System Finds Tilt Toward Trademark Holders. This article is excerpted from 131 (Legitimate) Link Building Strategies available on the Search Engine Watch web site. In search engine optimization (SEO), "off page...
Trademark holders prevail in domain fights. Check out Portals to the World, a robust online baedeker from the U.S. Library of Congress. Some of the best search tools on the web aren't search engines at all.
Thousands of .info names are being released for registration after the "sunrise" period designed to protect trademark holders was abused. Microsoft's Internet Explorer provided "native" support of RealNames "Internet Keywords.
Must something that calls itself a "search engine" provide trademark holders with some degree of visibility, regardless of payment, if they also carry ads for searches involving those trademarks? In another ruling this month by the US Ninth Circuit...
Must something that calls itself a "search engine" provide trademark holders with some degree of visibility, regardless of payment, if they also carry ads for searches involving those trademarks? In another ruling this month by the US Ninth Circuit...
Must something that calls itself a "search engine" provide trademark holders with some degree of visibility, regardless of payment, if they also carry ads for searches involving those trademarks? The court failed to uphold Nissan Computer's claim...
Trademark Holders Don't Automatically Win Similar Domain Names, Federal Judge Rules The Legal Intelligencer, Aug.http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer? Just because you hold a trademark doesn't mean you are entitled to take a...
