"What started off as an innocent enough birthday present to a young boy has turned into a legal wrangle that raises questions about how trademark laws should be applied to the online world." [ZDNN]

News brief about dispute. [cnet]

"Pokey.org was given to a 12 year old kid as a birthday present from his father 6 mos ago. Now Prema, owners of Gumby and Pokey are trying to shut it down." [Slashdot]

"It seems that the creator of Gumby and Pokey found out what the legal department was up to, and put an end to the nonsense. The legal dept. in full CYA mode claimed that they didn't know it was a kid." [Slashdot]