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Internet Land Rush at TM Office
The US Patent and Trademark office is taking applications for trademarks that include not-yet-created top-level domains like .web, .firm, and .sex; whoever gets the trademark for sex.web, for example, may already be buying the legal rights to the domain. (9/18/2000 at Wired News)

MS Loses Front Page Trademark Fight
A web design group in Glasgow has beaten Microsoft in a UK trademark dispute over the name "Front Page." (9/11/2001 at The Register)

Pie Fight!
The owners of culinary trademarks such as "Derby Pie" and "BeaverTails" have a harder time policing misuse of such names, now that everyone from amateurs to online commercial cookbooks are posting recipes to the Internet. (1/10/2001 at The Washington Post)

Playboy Ruling Recognizes Limits to Online Rights of Trademark Holders
U.S. Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler ruled that search engine Excite, Inc. may use Playboy's trademarks, "playboy" and "playmate," for "keying" - selling banner ads to rival companies when people search for these words. (9/15/2000 at The New York Times)

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