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Is virtual property real or intellectual?: Second Life class action moves forward
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- USA
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- December 13 2012
On November 20, 2012, the Northern District of California granted certification to one sub-class in a class action lawsuit against defendant Linden Research, Inc. (“Linden”
Social media sites: new battlegrounds for right of publicity disputes
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- USA
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- August 15 2012
Social media websites are quickly emerging as the new battleground for right of publicity disputes, with the ultimate question being an old one what are the parameters of First Amendment protections for corporate, commercial speech?
ICE and Manhattan U.S. Attorney seize multiple internet domains and related assets for online copyright violations in initiative to combat online counterfeiting and piracy
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- USA
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- July 1 2010
On June 30, 2010, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) seized nine domain names of websites that engaged in illicit distribution of films; some seizures were within hours of the film’s release in theatres
White House releases 2010 joint strategic plan on IP enforcement to fight counterfeiting and piracy
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- USA
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- June 23 2010
On June 22, 2010, the White House unveiled a strategic plan to combat counterfeiting and piracy through increased intellectual property enforcement efforts
Copyright owners must provide specific notice of each instance of infringement
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- USA
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- June 23 2010
Service providers that store and allow access to user posted content can avoid secondary copyright liability - unless they have knowledge of the specific material that is infringing - under the recent ruling in Viacom Int'l. Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., 07 Civ. 2103 (S.D. N.Y. June 23, 2010
Google’s sale of keywords does not render it liable for trademark infringement in the European Union
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- European Union
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- March 24 2010
In its landmark March 23, 2010 ruling, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ"), held that, while third-party advertisers might be liable for "purchasing" a competitor's trademark through Google's AdWords service, Google cannot be
In re Sones
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- USA
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- February 24 2010
Holding that a portion of the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (“TMEP”) is merely “instructive,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit threw out what had long been an established rule for website-based specimens of use
Facebook announces procedures for protection of trademarks in personal URLs
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- Global
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- June 11 2009
Facebook, the popular social networking site, announced a few days ago a new feature that allows individual users to create and register personalized Facebook URLs, for example: facebook.comjanedoe
Proposal for new generic top-level domain names
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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- Global
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- December 8 2008
A generic top-level domain (“gTLD”) refers to the letters that follow the final "dot" in an Internet domain name, such as “.com,” “.net,” etc
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