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Large law bozosity? Jones Day is grabbing lots of attention

By Kevin OKeefe

Preposterous and a candidate for the 'grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like,' is how Public Citizen lawyer Paul Levy describes Jones Day's lawsuit against an Internet site for mentioning the Jones Day name without permission. The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Alison Grant reports on the suit brought by the multi-national 2,300 lawyer firm: The Cleveland-based firm claims BlockShopper.com violated trademark law by reporting that two Jones Day lawyers had bought condos in Chicago. BlockShopper can't use Jones Day's name or link to its Web site because doing so suggests Jones Day is connected with BlockShopper's business, the lawsuit argues. BlockShopper, which I've started running into when doing searches for people on Google, is a service that uses public real estate data and information it culls from Google searches to write stories about the more affluent in our society buying and selling property...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).