10/17/2008 IP News & Blog Round-Up

• Is Google Adsense financing trademark infringement? - A lawsuit claims Google provides means for "typo-squatters" to make money on infringed trademarks. A copy of the case can be found here. (from Wired)

• Sony-Ericsson's China Trademark headaches. - If you think protecting a trademark is hard enough with typo-squatters, wait until Chinese character trademarks come into play.... (from IPKat)

• ...in 2009: Chinese character top-level domains. - Prepare to add ".中国" to a domain name portfolio that already probably consists of .com, net, .org, .eu... and so on.

• How has the financial economic crisis affected patent litigation? - A report released by Fulbright & Jaworski, here (registration required) suggest companies litigate more in search of alternate revenue streams when times are bad. (from Patent Prospector)