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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

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

A double bogey for descriptive domain names

  • Baldwins
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 30 2013

Last month we wrote about the need for businesses to adopt distinctive, non-descriptive trading names to adequately protect themselves against others

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

Changes to the use of survey evidence and witness collection in trade mark cases

  • Mewburn Ellis LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 24 2013

The test to determine whether parties should be allowed to rely on survey evidence or witness collection in trade mark and passing-off litigation has

Bye, bye Dispute-Antrag

  • CMS Hasche Sigle
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 19 2013

Es ist ein altes Problem im Markenrecht: Wer seine Rechte durch einen Domainnamen verletzt sieht, kann zwar Unterlassung der Domainnutzug verlangen

A lesson in sharing: Google’s new AdWords policy

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 15 2013

Imagine you are a well-known multinational company. You've worked long and hard to establish yourself as a market leader. You've taken advice from

Second time unlucky for Interflora in the Court of Appeal

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 5 2013

The Court of Appeal today handed down judgment in the case of Interflora Inc. & others v Marks and Spencer PLC 2013 EWCA Civ 319, with Lewison LJ

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