Chicago Law Firm Sues Over Hyperlink To Trademarked Name

TheSpoom writes "Large Chicago law firm Jones Day are suing internet startup BlockShopper over the issue of whether linking to a business with their trademarked name should be legal. It would seem they are using trademark dilution as a tool to get BlockShopper to cease linking to their website. The EFF has filed an amicus curiae, as might be expected. If Jones Day wins this suit, anyone linking using a trademarked name may be in legal hot water."

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Re:Interesting site, BlockShopper

[morgan_greywolf]

And even then, couldn't they have found some sort of invasion of privacy statute?

Nope. They're using information that's already publicly available. All real estate purchases are a matter of public record (by necessity). The rest of the info from bios just seems to come from newspapers or websites or whatever -- remember, these are prominent people, so they get talked about lot in the media and on the Internet.