The trademark war continues over Google Inc.'s popular and profitable AdWords program. AdWords allows advertisers to purchase "sponsored links" that appear as a result of Google searches that use specific words, which can be trademarks of third parties....
Patents can serve as the basis for an entire business. Learn about the types of patents and some of the pitfalls of protecting inventions and avoiding infringement....
Advertisers should be careful when they buy search-engine keywords that resemble their competitors' names, writes intellectual property lawyer Deborah Wilcox. Though several suits have been filed over the practice, the legal ground is still uncertain....
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision Jan. 14, 2004, in Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Netscape Communications Corp., 9th Cir., No. 00-56648, that may change the current standard for evaluating trademark infringement on the Internet....