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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

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

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

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
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  • 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

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
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  • 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

AK Metals, LLC v. Borman Indus. Materials, Inc., 2013 WL 417323 (S.D. Cal. Jan. 31, 2013)

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2013

Plaintiff AK Metals, LLC (“AK”) distributes metal supplies under the mark “Escondido Metal Supply.” AK alleged that Defendant Norman Industrial

Habush v. Cannon, 2013 WL 627251 (Wis. Ct. App. Feb. 21, 2013)

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2013

Plaintiffs Habush and Rottier were well-known personal-injury lawyers in Wisconsin and defendants Cannon and Dunphy were competitors. Beginning in

From bricks and mortar to AdWords and beyond

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 15 2013

Technological innovations over the past 25 years have brought about steep changes in trademark cases. In the 1980s, for instance, the typical