The 11th Circuit Court (GA) recently ruled that the use of trademarked terms in meta tags represents an infringing action, supporting a decision made by a district court.

Google recently announced that while it will jettison Performics search marketing division, it will keep the Performics affiliate network.

On May 5, Google will allow trademark bidding in the UK and Ireland.

On April 1st, Google will begin enforcing consistency between the landing page URL and the display URL.

While this scam has been occurring for nearly 6 months, the scammers seem to have stepped up their efforts recently.

Last week, BrandVerity entered closed Alpha. We have a handful of alpha testers up and running and we are conducting daily monitoring of their search terms.

Sarah Bird at SEOMoz has an excellent post up on the differences between ACPA and UDRP. She touches on a few of the related issues of why someone might want to bring an ACPA suit instead of filing a UDRP.

BrandVerity is now accepting a limited number of customers into our closed alpha program.