Archive for September, 2007
Don’t Confuse Trademarks With Domain Names—They May or May not be Both!
Saturday, September 15th, 2007A trademark is a word, symbol, slogan, and even a sound, that is used to identify and distinguish your goods and services from those of your competitors. Rights in a trademark are secured and ultimately maintained only by continuous use in commerce of the mark > >for specific goods and services. Without use for particular [...]
Trademark Applicants: Beware of Watch Service and Representation Solicitations
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007This article first appeared in Thomson Compumark Client Times, July 2007
While the advent of public filing information on line is a huge convenience to the public and legal practitioners alike, there is a dark side. An entire industry has emerged, calculated to confuse the trademark applicant, and extract fees for “watch services” which for many [...]
Google’s Adwords Auction Policy – American Airlines Sues
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Cheryl Hodgson
© 2007 Hodgson Law Group
On August 16, 2007, American Airlines sued Google in U.S. District Court in Northern District of Texas, complaining about Google’s Adwords auction policy, which includes the sale of registered trademarks to competitors for use in advertising by competitors. Google sells American Airlines trademarks as “search terms” in paid advertising, [...]
Termination of Copyright Grants – It’s even better the second time around!
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Cheryl Hodgson
© 2007 Hodgson Law Group
Trusts and estates which own copyrighted assets, or which generate royalty income from copyrighted works may well be entitled to exercise a statutory right of termination of previous transfers, thirty-five years after the date of the original grant by the author or copyright owner.
Original documents of transfer or license should [...]
Has Your Trademark Become a Google TMadWord?
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 Has Your Trademark Become a Google TMadWord?
American Airlines sues Google
Cheryl Hodgson
© 2007 Hodgson Law Group
“TMadwords”—“Trade mark owners are mad as hell, and they aren’t going to take it any more!”— anonymous
Have you “googled” your trademarks lately? American Airlines has been looking at its own search results, and recently decided that “enough is enough.” [...]
Google Can’t Be a Victor if it Had No Opponent
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Google Can’t Be a Victor if it Had No Opponent—A Commentary on the Settlement of
Google, Inc., v. American Blinds & Wallpaper Factory, In.
Case No. 5:03-cv-05340-JF (N.D. Cal)
By Dana Arak for Hodgson Law Group
© 2007 Hodgson Law Group
Eric Goldman, an assistant professor of law at Santa Clara University, stated that the settlement of the Google, Inc., [...]
