Bottle sent to say sorry for trademark whine

摘要

ALL'S WELL that ends well, right? I mean especially when, as here, that ending comes complete with a bottle of wine and a box of Twix candy bars.... Maybe. Here's what happened: On April 17, a small London-based Internet marketing company named Datadial received an email from a law firm representing the U.K. arm of Shopzilla, a large comparison-shopping site. The email alleged that Datadial had violated Shopzilla's trademark by - get this - simply linking to in a blog post. Remove that offending link, Shopzilla's attorneys stomped, or there will be legal hell to pay, followed by the financial kind.