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...wines, apple juice, bath preparations, candles, furs, coniferous wood, paper boxes, lithographs, cashmere sweaters, women's suits, dresses, skirts, bed linens, scissors, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, food grinders, windshield wipers, dolls, photographic equipment, chandeliers, glass Christmas ornaments, sweet biscuits, wafers, felt paper, plastic handbags, coffee or tea makers, electric toy trains, greeting cards, stoves and ballpoint pens...
...ruled that the shooting was justified. Nine years later, Lewis Oliver, a lawyer who had filed a wrongful-death suit on behalf of Davis' relatives, discovered a photograph taken by a police officer moments after Davis was shot. It showed him clutching only a set of keys and a toy car. Rather than allow the case to go to trial, the city settled the lawsuit for $500,000. Last year brutality charges against two Albany cops accused of beating college basketball star Jermaine Henderson in a police garage were dismissed after the city paid Henderson $60,000 to settle...
...holiday spirit is all well and good. When it comes to protecting their trademarks, however, e-commerce companies are prepared to be as Grinch-like as they have to be. That was the lesson we learned this holiday season when toy retailing giant eToys.com got wind of a site called etoy.com. The lawyers at eToys.com decided etoy.com infringed on their trademark, and they took their complaint to the courts...
...desires are pretty basic. They run along the lines of world peace, good health and an Easy Bake Oven--an item I have coveted since childhood. Don't get me wrong: I had plenty as a child, but I never possessed the light-bulb-powered "amazing toy oven that really bakes!" I ought to be over it. (We did, after all, own a pony.) But the fact is, I can't forget the toy I never...
...rest of the operation. The result: misplaced orders, late deliveries and some unhappy customers. And much of the marketing millions spent after Nov. 1 probably drowned in the sea of other dotcom ads. "Many e-tailers spent way too much money way too late in the season," Weiner says. Toy seller KBkids.com did things right, launching its $43 million ad campaign at the time of the site's July debut. The payoff: traffic and sales soared...