Archive for August, 2011

Aug 2011 12

Outdoors charity takes on clothing firm over trademark

A nonprofit organization has filed a trademark infringement suit against outdoor clothing manufacturer Eddie Bauer.
First Descents, which was set up in 2001 to introduce young cancer patients to kayaking, has taken exception to Bauer’s new brand names First Ascent and First Descent.
The charity believes the two names are too similar to its own brand and …

Aug 2011 11

Red-soled shoes at centre of trademark dispute

A trademark dispute has broken out between two rival fashion houses over the sale of red-soled shoes.
Christian Louboutin SA had asked the federal courts to offer protection to its products after Yves Saint Laurent launched similar footwear with colored soles.
The former secured a trademark for red-soled shoes in 2008 with the U.S. Patent and Trademark …

Aug 2011 10

Satirical magazine loses domain name complaint

A satirical magazine has lost a domain name dispute it brought against a publishing company it claimed had piggybacked on its brand.
The Harvard Lampoon, which says takes its inspiration from the defunct British publication Punch, was denied the rights to lampoon.com, reports the Harvard Crimson. It suggested that the domain name’s owner, Florida-based Reflex Publishing, …

Aug 2011 09

DNSSEC are crucial for online security, says ICANN

Now is the time for corporations and organizations to embrace Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), it has been claimed.
Speaking recently at the Black Hat Technical Security conference in Las Vegas, Jeff Moss, vice-president and chief security officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), urged firms to take fewer online risks.
“If …

Aug 2011 08

Green Bay Packers defend ‘Titletown’ trademark

A restaurant was forced to change its name after infringing on a trademark held by the NFL’s Green Bay Packers.
The team owns the rights to the “Titletown” trademark, and chose to defend its intellectual property when the owners of Green Bay Distillery in Ashwaubenon announced the name for their new eatery.
Initially, they were planning to …

Aug 2011 02

Rare two-letter .com domain comes up for sale

A rare two-letter domain name comes up for auction this month, almost 20 years after it was originally registered.
zy.com is one of the original .com domain names, devised in the early days of the World Wide Web.
Two-letter .com domains sold out in 1994, and have in recent years become a valuable commodity for Internet investors.
There …