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11/07/07 IP News

By Sean Fowler

Oh, I know I am still back on May cases, but things are winding down on this big case on which I have been working. Should free up some time here and there to do some serious catching up, I hope.

Anyway, your latest IP news:

? Hasbro doesn't want to be a toy company anymore; it wants to be a company that creates marketable intellectual property, kind of like Disney has become. Viva la revolucion or something. -- Honolulu Advertiser
? Google has created tech for YouTube that will severely hamper the ability of posters to post infringing material. -- Public Knowledge
? JK Rowling and Warner are suing a creator of a Harry Potter reference guide for unauthorized derivative work; a Harry situation indeed. -- The Trademark Blog
? Prince is threatening fan sites to remove all content related to his royal self; fans have responded by creating Prince Fans United, or Prince F.U., for short. --PC Pro (UK)
? Google's got a new mobile operating system, trademarked as Android. -- ClickZ
? Johnson & Johnson (J&J) just had a good part of their case against the American Red Cross (ARC) thrown out. Evidently, the court tossed the portion of the suit that argued that ARC had agreed not to compete with J&J using the ARC logo. -- Reuters
? Eros' virtual company SexGen is IRL (in real life) suing Thomas Simon for the allegedly trademark infringing actions of his virtual character Rase Kenzo, who all live in the virtual world of Second Life. The virtual world asks, "OMG, WTFIUWT?" -- C-Net

Full post as published by Cogito Ergo Teneo; an intellectual property blawg on November 07, 2007 (boomark / email).