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On June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) revealed the list of new top-level domain names (gTLDs) applied for during the initial application period which ended on May 30, 2012
The legal campaign against Google’s offering of trademarks as keywords in its AdWords program, including its policy of permitting third-party trademarks to be used in sponsored links, will continue as a result of the Fourth Circuit’s decision this week in Rosetta Stone Ltd
A federal court recently held that Google's auctioning of Rosetta Stone's trademarks as triggers for paid advertisements and the use of those trademarks within the advertisements creates no likelihood of confusion and therefore does not infringe
In a decision that will be welcomed by owners of famous brands, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of credit card giant Visa on its trademark dilution claim against use of "eVisa" for an Internet-based "multilingual education and information business" Visa Int'l Serv. Ass'n. v. JSL Corp., No. 08-15206 (9th Cir. June 28, 2010
The June 23, 2010 decision by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in Viacom's $1 billion copyright action against YouTube holds that YouTube is not liable for contributory copyright infringement and need not police its site to identify posted materials that may infringe a copyright
A recent decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has found that eBay has no contributory liability for sales of counterfeit products on its site in light of its efforts to combat counterfeiting, including termination of sales after notification by the trademark owner
