Cody Taylor

If you bought something at a Best Buy store in West Palm Beach, Florida, late last year, or stayed at a Wyndham hotel in Florida last summer or use a U.S. government travel Web site you might want to check your credit card statements closely.

An anonymous reader writes “A tiny startup that was threatened by a massive law firm over nothing more than a humble hyperlink has been forced to settle and change its linking policies, handing Goliath the win in this gratuitous trademark case. Under the agreement, real estate startup BlockShopper can no longer include hyperlinks anywhere on its website to Jones Day, a massive Chicago law firm, except explicitly on URL text. Essentially, jonesday.com is okay, but not blah blah blah.” I wonder if the owners of jonesdaysucks.com feel the same way.

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