An adviser to the European Court of Justice just issued an opinion that "Google has not committed a trademark infringement by allowing advertisers to select [trademarked] keywords".

We've seen advertisements similar to the one below for "top-rated-coupons.com" appear in Yahoo search ads for a number of the programs that we monitor:

Geno Prussakov has a great post on the AM Navigator blog about how recent changes to Google Suggest can help prevent trademark poaching.

In December, a court awarded Verizon a $33.5M default judgment against OnlineNIC for typosquatting on 683 domain names such as verizonphnes.com. OnlineNIC, based in China, never even showed up at court.

A few members of BrandVerity Team will be out at Affiliate Summit.

In early July, the Rosetta Stone launched a lawsuit against Google for trademark infringement through its AdWords program.

We're excited by the recent coverage that we've received on the launch of PoachMark. A few of the recent posts include:

Techcrunch has a good article on the latest conundrum facing affiliate managers: Izea (formerly PayPerPost) has begun introducing affiliate links to its network of sponsored bloggers.

We're excited to announce that PoachMark has officially launched. With over 200 affiliate programs monitored, we're confident that PoachMark meets the robustness standards that we've established internally for this milestone.

Updated on May 21 to reflect Google's worldwide trademark policy changes and recent moves in the US.