Wayback to the Future of Online Evidence

Article by: Ruth M. Corbin and John McKeown for Vue Magazine in December 2012 The Internet already lets you live out a vicarious online life, perhaps more thrilling than your own, through sites like Second Life, Lively or There.com. Now you can also travel back in time on the Wayback Machine, to view certain websites […]

Descriptive Trade Marks are Demanding

A recent case in the United Kingdom illustrates the problems associated with a descriptive trade mark.[1] The Plaintiffs The plaintiffs were members of a substantial Hong Kong-based group of broadcasting, media and telecommunications companies headed by PCCW Ltd. (PCCW). Starbucks (HK) Limited, a PCCW company, owned the registered Community Trade Mark shown below: The mark […]