“The Trademark Document Retrieval (TDR), offers the public an advanced electronic portal to PDF viewing, downloading and printing of an array of information and documents for more than 460,000 trademark applications totaling more than eight million document pages. As new applications are filed, they will be added to the database. It is expected that more than 300,000 application files will be added annually. Over the next five years, the remaining paper files of approximately 1.2 million active trademark registrations will be converted into digital format for TDR access.” [See the press release and the TDR Questions and Answers webpage]
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Daily Archives: February 1, 2005
Official Launch of MSN Search
From the MSN Weblog, MSN Search Launches, and take a look at the site’s promo, which includes references to Sweden, the Beatles and the White Stripes. Details about the site from Beta News, Search Engine Watch, and Search Engine Guide. From Business Week, see also Microsoft’s Mission: Search and Destroy Continue Reading
Junk Email Careens Out of Law’s Control
Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead. Another article joins the chorus complaining about the failure of the CAN-SPAM Act to stem the tide of junk email, and highlights how industry, government and advocacy groups continue to do battle against the threats. From the perspective of the spammers however, it is a lucrative business,… Continue Reading
FTC Releases Annual Report on Consumer Complaints – ID Theft Tops List
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today released its annual report detailing consumer complaints about identity theft and listing the top 10 categories of fraud-related complaints filed with the FTC in 2004. For the fifth year in a row, identity theft topped the list of complaints, accounting for 39 percent of the 635,173 consumer fraud… Continue Reading
Privacy Act of 2005
S.116, Privacy Act of 2005. Introduced in Senate on January 24, 2005, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) “The Privacy Act A comprehensive bill that would set a national standard for protecting personal information such as Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, and medical and financial data, including information collected both online and offline. Modeled on California’s… Continue Reading
