Kudos to Microsoft which has filed civil suits against sploggers Jason Cox, John Jonas and Daniel Goggins and Dan Brown in an effort to fight back against a surge of online trademark infringement by people seeking to profit from pay-per-click advertising.
According to MSNBC "the vast majority of the sites, which have addresses like "microsoftrebate.com," "xbox36com.com" and "msnfinance.com," are bought by professional operations that place nothing on the pages but pay-per-click ads served by online-ad networks, Microsoft said. About a quarter of the sites use privacy services to disguise their identities."
These same folks are among the worst abusers of structured settlement terms and have infringed on trademarks and service marks of members of the structured settlement industry and the structured settlement factoring industry in a similar manner.
Link to MSNBC story
Link to Newspapergrl‘s coverage of the story. Thank you Janet for notifying me of the suit.
Link to coverage in DeseretNews coverage of the story
Link to my blog post of August 22, 2006 which lets you into the head of splogger John Jonas
Wake up John Liedke, the heat is coming!
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