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Facebook status update (part 1): the legal battle behind Facebook Timeline

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2013

We think the folks at Facebook been busy. From "Timeline" to "Typosquatters" to "Tight New Restrictions" on use of brand assets, there's plenty for

Facebook status update (Part 2): does that domain name say ffacebook.com?

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2013

We previously posted about another legal issue that was keeping Facebook busy, namely, a dispute over its use of the term "timeline" which it settled

Cybersquatting; typosquatting Facebook’s $2.8 million in damages and domain names

  • Francis Abourizk Lightowlers
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  • Global, USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

A decision was recently handed down in California awarding Facebook $2.8 million in damages for domain name 'squatting'. The defendants in the

Facebook versus the axis of evil

  • Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

There is something about "typosquatting" that I admire in a twisted way. Typosquatting is the practice of registering as a domain name a common

Saving face: Facebook and Timeline have settled lawsuit

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

According to Facebook, Inc.'s most recent SEC filing, it has reached a settlement agreement with Timelines Inc. in the trademark case Timelines filed

They won't get fooled again: no likelihood of confusion in Amazon search engine utilization of trademarks

  • Schiff Hardin LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

Amazon is one of many online retailers that uses an internal search engine that sorts through branded and trademarked goods. Of course, search

Trademarks as search terms

  • Dykema Gossett PLLC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2013

An interesting case discussing several aspects of trademark law is Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google, Inc., decided in April this year by the United

Are you ready for the new gTLDs? the Trademark Clearinghouse opens March 26

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2013

The universe of generic top-level domains (gTLDs), currently limited to about a dozen gTLDs such as .com, .net, and .org, will likely explode later

Protect your rights as new gTLDs prepare to launch: Trademark Clearinghouse opens March 26 2013

  • Banner & Witcoff Ltd
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2013

ICANN, the governing body of the Internet that is overseeing the rollout of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), will launch its Trademark

Hong Kong website can continue selling alleged counterfeit fashion apparel after court declines to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction under Lanham Act

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • Hong Kong, USA
  • -
  • March 20 2013

A court in the Southern District of New York enjoined the defendants from selling fashion apparel in the United States that allegedly infringed the