01 Sunday Jul 2012
Here are the top stories I followed this week:
Indiana Court Upholds Social Media Ban for Sex Offenders
USPTO seeks to intervene in publisher’s copyright infringement suit against law firm
FTC v. Myspace Part II – The Takeaways
U.S. Supreme Court to hear Nike trademark case
“As far as I’m concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.” -Die Hard 2, spoken by the character John McClane
03 Sunday Jun 2012
China tightens grip on social media with new rules
TV Networks Say You’re Breaking The Law When You Skip Commercials
Germany sets new solar power record, institute says
Got Compliance? The EU Cookie Law & What You Need to Do
Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube
Target on your cyber back: DHS has a list of words deemed ‘suspicious’
Man sues to have ‘Google’ declared a generic word
Privacy practices: how the FTC MySpace settlement affects your business
Google Obliges Website Copyright Takedown Requests 97% of the Time
NLRB Issues Third Social Media Report
From David Elliott’s Complaint for Cancellation of Trademark and Declaratory Relief:
“3. The term “GOOGLE” is, or has become, a generic term universally used to describe the action of internet searching with any search engine, which cannot serve as a trademark to the exclusion of others.”
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