American Airlines has sued Yahoo for trademark infringement according to a CNET News article. American Airlines claims that Yahoo is diverting business from them by allowing competitors to purchase ads next to search results for terms related to American Airlines trademarks. Yahoo’s current trademarks policy states that advertising on search terms that may be someone [...]
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Yahoo Sued By American Airlines Over Trademark Search Ads
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Justice Department May Be Preparing Challenge to Google-Yahoo Partnership
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the U.S. Justice Department has hired a well-known lawyer for a possible antitrust lawsuit against Google. The lawyer, Sanford Litvack, was the Justice Department antitrust chief for President Jimmy Carter as well as a former vice chairman of Disney and partner at law firm Hogan & Hartson. The [...]
Comcast Appeals FCC Net Neutrality Related Sanctions
Friday, September 5th, 2008The New York Times Bits Blog reports that Comcast filed a suit in the United States Court of Appeals in Washington to challenge the FCC’s sanctions over it’s throttling of certain protocols on customers connections. Comcast is challenging the FCC’s ability to sanctions companies without first publishing a rule about the issue at hand. Under [...]
Target Settles Lawsuit Over Blind Accessibility to Website
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Target has settled a lawsuit over the inability of the blind to access their website. CNET News reports that Target will establish a $6 million dollar fund for settlement claims and promised to “make its site fully accessible to blind visitors”. The basis of the suit was that the lack alt-text tags for images on [...]
