Intellectual Property Law

Tapping in to anonymous posters

By Steve Cosentino

Evan Brown recently reported about the Zynga case, an attempt to gather information about potential infringers of the Mafia Wars trademark.   Although there is certainly some merit to limiting overly broad discovery requests, seems natural that the free speech concerns about protecting anonymity on the internet for discussion sites does not apply in the context of a commercial game.  That should tilt things towards Zanga and their discovery requests, notwithstanding the fact that their trademark is descriptive and a bit oxymoronic.

Full post as published by The TechKnowledgy Blog on June 13, 2010 (boomark / email).