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By Eric Goldman

Yahoo and American Airlines are still tussling over Yahoo’s sale of American Airlines’ trademarks as keyword triggers (see background at 1, 2, 3). According to Yahoo, American Airlines is arguing that online travel agencies such as Expedia are directly infringing American Airlines’ trademarks by buying keywords from Yahoo, which would make Yahoo a secondary infringer by facilitating Expedia’s direct infringement.

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