Template:Did you know nominations/Lens.com, Inc. v. 1-800 Contacts, Inc.


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The result was: promoted by Fuebaey (talk) 07:34, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Lens.com, Inc. v. 1-800 Contacts, Inc.

 * ... that lens.com lost its trademark for the word LENS in 2012?

Created/expanded by Mjberger (talk). Nominated by Amcconachie (talk) at 21:32, 30 October 2014 (UTC).


 * I'm having trouble finding a direct statement of the hook in the article -- and this hook definitely needs to cited to a secondary source, not a ruling or opinion. EEng (talk) 05:57, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * (sorry, more reading...) Well OK, in my case my confusion turned out to be due to there being two cases about this. 11-4114 is about the use of trademarks in AdWords, which I am shocked to learn went the way it did. There's lots of good 3rd material on this. However, the article is about 11-1258, which is over Lens.com's claim of trademark on "lens", which they lost. This has less 3rd party interest it seems, I guess because it's more limited in application. However, I would suggest that this, [http://www.ipbrief.net/2012/09/05/short-circuit-august-1-15-2012/ this, this and this demonstrate some level of interest and I would suggest they successfully meet the cite requirement. However, I think the hook entirely misses the point of the decision: Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:55, 3 November 2014 (UTC)


 * ALT1 ... that lens.com lost its trademark for the word LENS in 2012, because the courts decided that a retail website did not meet the definition of "computer software"?

I think it needs this because I provided a new ALT, right? Maury Markowitz (talk) 02:38, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg  I think the "citation needed" tags should be addressed before this goes to the main page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:31, 6 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Cwmhiraeth, it looks like an IP went through and took care of the tags (I think all with the same source). Can you please check to see whether this meets standards now? I doubt we'll see either creator or nominator, as this was part of a course project, and the semester is almost certainly over by now. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Full review needed; I hadn't realized that previous comments didn't address most of the basic DYK criteria such as size, newness, neutrality, close paraphrasing, etc. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:47, 21 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg This article is new enough and long enough. Striking the original hook because ALT1 is more interesting. As far as I can see, ALT1 is acceptable and has sufficient inline citations for its facts (to the extent that I can interpret the legal language). The article is neutral and I did not detect any copyright/close paraphrasing issues. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:18, 21 December 2014 (UTC)