Archive for July, 2009

WIPO Domain Name Decision D2009-0724 for nortonpeskett.com

WIPO Domain Name Decision for nortonpeskett.com

WIPO Domain Name Decision D2009-0736 for anglaispourlesnuls.net

WIPO Domain Name Decision for anglaispourlesnuls.net

No evidence in Mel Gibson's battery case – Gaea Times

No evidence in Mel Gibson's battery case
Gaea Times
Oksana Grigorieva is suing a group of Internet entrepreneurs who snapped up her personal website's domain name to make it look like her official one.

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Whose Art Is It, Anyway? – Wall Street Journal

Whose Art Is It, Anyway?
Wall Street Journal
There are those who think the very idea of a public domain is destructive: The late Jack Valenti famously declared, “A public-domain work is an orphan.

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War and piece: Earl of Sandwich in battle over takeaway name – Scotsman

War and piece: Earl of Sandwich in battle over takeaway name
Scotsman
And lawyers acting on his behalf have ordered Mr Corall, 31, to change the name of his shop. But, although Mr Corall has now altered the shop's name to EARL

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Google Readies Its Book Business – InformationWeek

Google Readies Its Book Business
InformationWeek
To date, Google has scanned over 10 million books, according to Clancy, including 1.5 million public domain books and 1.5 million books belonging to

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CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny – CNET News

CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny
CNET News
The authors object that Davis maintains sole control over the CentOS.org Internet domain and IRC chat channel. And Dag Wieers, who works on the security,
Head of CentOS project goes missingiTWire

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BOL 1030: SSL is SOL – CNET News

BOL 1030: SSL is SOL
CNET News
Think of this as the part for lawyers to read. is basically additional claims. It cannot change the patent specification part. Its like you are saying,

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Front Running On Proposed g'TLD's: Companies Are Getting … – TheDomains.com

Front Running On Proposed g'TLD's: Companies Are Getting
TheDomains.com
Of course this paper raises other larger issues on how the abuse of trademark registrations are being used to acquire rights in and to domain names and
ICANN Should Guard Against New TLD SpeculationThe Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog (press release) (press release)
When It Comes to gTLDs, Follow the Money (Part 1)CircleID

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Obama Shouldn't Have Weighed In On Gates Arrest – Opposing Views

Obama Shouldn't Have Weighed In On Gates Arrest
Opposing Views
Her name has been bandied about in blog posts and several news stories, and she has even had to hire an attorney. One of the “teachable moments” from this

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