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.

Late Thursday, Google announced the largest changes to their US AdWords policy in some time. Previously, trademark owners could prevent anyone from using their trademarks in their ad copy. Now, resellers and information sites may utilize the trademarked terms in their ad copy.

Google announced a change yesterday to its AdWords trademark policy in 190 countries, bringing that policy in line with its policies for the US, CA, UK & IE.

Amazon sent an email to all its affiliates this morning announcing a change in its paid search policy for affiliates - Affiliates will no longer be allowed to direct link to Amazon.