{"id":518951,"date":"2010-04-07T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100405\/1818058887.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-07T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T06:46:00","slug":"intel-realizes-no-one-is-going-to-confuse-a-newsletter-about-mexico-with-its-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518951","title":{"rendered":"Intel Realizes No One Is Going To Confuse A Newsletter About Mexico With Its Processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we wrote about Intel&#8217;s trademark lawyers getting over aggressive in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091117\/1151596970.shtml\">suing<\/a> the owners of the Mexico Watch newsletter for using the domain name LatinIntel.com  In this case, it was clear that &#8220;intel&#8221; was the commonly abbreviated version of &#8220;intelligence,&#8221; and no one was going to be confused and think that a newsletter about Mexico had anything to do with a company making microprocessors.  For whatever reason, it appears that common sense has finally prevailed, and we&#8217;ve been alerted to the fact that Intel has dropped its lawsuit:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object id=\"_ds_33049339\" name=\"_ds_33049339\" width=\"450\" height=\"550\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=33049339&#038;mem_id=715794&#038;doc_type=pdf&#038;fullscreen=0&#038;allowdownload=1&#038;showrelated=0&#038;showotherdocs=0\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nOf course, a simpler course of action would have been to have not sued in the first place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100405\/1818058887.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100405\/1818058887.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100405\/1818058887&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=a0aa356b73d37b042b35c5c490d64e22&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=a0aa356b73d37b042b35c5c490d64e22&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=8-v5lhEWWv4:42aWKDv_2pE:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=8-v5lhEWWv4:42aWKDv_2pE:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=8-v5lhEWWv4:42aWKDv_2pE:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/8-v5lhEWWv4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we wrote about Intel&#8217;s trademark lawyers getting over aggressive in suing the owners of the Mexico Watch newsletter for using the domain name LatinIntel.com In this case, it was clear that &#8220;intel&#8221; was the commonly abbreviated version of &#8220;intelligence,&#8221; and no one was going to be confused and think that a newsletter about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}