Suit involving Internet site is dismissed
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A federal judge in New York has ruled that establishing a site on the Web is not, in itself, a cause for a trademark-infringement suit by someone living in another part of the country. The ruling finds that the operator of the Blue Note jazz club in New York cannot sue a music club in Columbia, MO, for using the same name. US District Judge Sidney Stein ruled that the Missouri club employed its Web site to promote the business locally. He reasoned that promoting a business on the Web is similar to distributing a product; it may have national, or even worldwide implications, but is not purposely directed at New York. The New York Blue Note plans to take the issue to a federal court in Missouri and will argue that its trademarked name has been damaged by the local club's Web activity. There has been an increase in this type of lawsuit, raising questions as to where the disputes should be heard.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1996
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Other agencies say no soap to Treasury's push for high-tech tracking of money laundering
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Treasury Department officials claim a leading role in financial investigations, tracking money laundering by using computers, but critics say the department is overselling its high-technology methods. Low-tech leads, they say, still generate almost all the evidence that produces convictions. Even within the department, agents admit that leads are often redundant. For example, one Internal Revenue Service (IRS) operative notes that of seven 'hot leads' his regional office received from Washington during a recent six month period, all seven were already being worked. Another problem that impedes money-laundering investigations is parochialism, which characterizes much of the government's anti-drug efforts: the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the FBI, which stress undercover operations, and the Customs Service and the IRS, which emphasize financial analysis, often do not share intelligence.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1989
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As economies dip, a global law firm parties on
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Headquartered in Chicago, Baker & McKenzie has 59 law offices in 34 countries employing 2,400 lawyers. Even with the Asian financial crisis and about one-third of its billings coming from Asia, the company predicts it will do just about as well during bad times as it does during good times. The outlook is about as optimistic in its Moscow office and its Bangkok office. The company is taking good care of its lawyers in the Jakarta office, too.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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