- Google's French Fracas
Date: 2003-12-03 Source: ClickZ
Trademark owners do have some serious and legitimate concerns about how words that are also their trademarks are sold. But it's a mistake to assume bidding on words that may also be trademarks is an open-and-shut case for trademark owners.
[Open In New Window] - Google, Overture Limit Pharmacy Ads -- But Not In Free Listings
Date: 2003-12-02 Source: Search Engine Report
In just over a month, both major paid search providers Overture and Google have reacted to pressure to drop ads for unlicensed online pharmacies in the United States. But while the ads will be gone, the access to sites selling prescription medicines without proper approval will remain virtually unchanged.
[Open In New Window] - Google Faces Fight Over Ads & Trademarks In France
Date: 2003-11-05 Source: Search Engine Report
Days after Google was fined by a French court for selling ads linked to the terms claimed as trademarks, news emerged that Louis Vuitton launched its own trademark-related action against Google. A look at some of the complicated issues involved.
[Open In New Window] - Handbag maker Vuitton sues Google
Date: 2003-10-24 Source: CNN
Louis Vuitton SA is suing Google and its French subsidiary for trademark infringement in the wake of a landmark ruling that could force the popular Internet search engine to change the way it sells advertising.
[Open In New Window] - LookSmart Settles Class Action
Date: 2003-09-13 Source: Search Engine News Blog
Search company LookSmart Ltd has settled a class action lawsuit brought against them on behalf of customers who paid for site submission before the Directory converted to a paid listings model in April 2002. LookSmart has agreed to provide compensation to these customers in the form of cash payments and/or additional paid listings.
[Open In New Window] - Google pulls links to Kazaa imitator
Date: 2003-09-02 Source: News.com
In response to a legal threat that invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Google has removed from its index eight sites that distribute a hacked version of file-swapping service Kazaa.
[Open In New Window] - Deep links are legal in Germany. Official
Date: 2003-07-20 Source: The Register
"The court stressed the importance of deep links for the internet and held that it is up to the plaintiffs to prevent deep links with technical measures, if they don't like them. The court did not answer the question if the circumvention of these measures would be illegal."
[Open In New Window] - Court backs thumbnail image linking
Date: 2003-07-07 Source: News.com
Search engines' display of miniature images is fair use under copyright law, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, but the legality of presenting full-size renditions of visual works is yet to be determined.
[Open In New Window] - Court draws a line for online privacy
Date: 2003-05-12 Source: News.com
By putting URL search terms into the area of protected content, the ruling means that law enforcement agencies would actually have to clear higher hurdles to obtain information about online searches, said Orrin Kerr, an associate professor at George Washington University Law School.
[Open In New Window] - Taxes.com wins right to criticize rival
Date: 2003-03-31 Source: News.com
A California judge on Friday lifted a temporary ban on Taxes.com from displaying unfavorable but truthful information about its chief rival, J.K. Harris, which had complained that the practice interfered with its status in popular search engines.
[Open In New Window] - Local lawyers duke it out in cyber spat
Date: 2003-02-05 Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The suit goes after Cabaniss for inserting Boyle's name in the "meta tag" of the Web address for Cabaniss' law practice. Meta tag is computer-geek speak for the list of keywords visible only to search engines that are used to identify the content of a Web site.
[Open In New Window] - SearchKing update: preliminary injunction denied
Date: 2003-01-24 Source: LawMeme
The ruling is definitely a Google victory. In essence, Judge Miles- LaGrange adopted Google's overall view of the case. Crucially, she adopted Google's argument that its PageRanks are "opinions" protected under the First Amendment, rather than demonstrably false "facts."
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