Los Angeles – In a trademark infringement dispute filed by Chrysler, a judge ruled Tuesday against the auto-maker’s request to bar local retailer, Pure Detroit, from selling T-shirts with the slogan, “Imported From Detroit.” Records indicate that Chrysler applied for the “Imported From Detroit” trademark in late 2010.
Chrysler first introduced the slogan
San Diego – HomeVestors of America, Inc., a franchised business that buys up bank-owned and hard-to-sell homes for cash, has been busy lately protecting its WE BUY UGLY HOUSES trademark. HomeVestor’s business has flourished since the housing bubble popped, making it increasingly aggressive with protecting its intellectual property against third-party infringers.
HomeVestors is the #1 buyer
Los Angeles – Cleveland rapper DJ Orrin Lynn Tolliver, Jr., has reached a settlement in a copyright infringement case involving the unauthorized use of a sampling of his 1982 rap hit, ‘I Need a Freak’ in a Black Eyed Peas song. Tolliver’s copyright was infringed when it was used in the Peas 2005 smash hit
San Diego – After several unsuccessful attempts in previous Congresses, the House Judiciary Committee finally passed the America Invents Act by a 32-3 vote. Large companies such as Google, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, General Electric, Apple, Dell, and Facebook have supported the House bill, making it the first significant revamp in the U.S. patent system
San Diego – Google has recently filed a trademark for a new service called “Photovine” but nobody is completely sure what it is. Click here to see the Photovine Trademark Application. The Photovine.com domain name is registered under an unnamed owner.
What we do know about “Photovine” is that it is non-downloadable software like
Los Angeles – The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently granted patent protection to Los Angeles-based ImmunoCellular Therapeutics (IMUC) for its technology in the treatment of cancer for which it holds an exclusive, worldwide license. The biotechnology company which focuses on the development of immune-based cancer therapies is calling its new patent No. 7,939,090
San Diego – Recently, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced a new plan to dramatically increase the number of generic top-level domain names, or GTLD’s, by the end of 2012. With the expansion of possibly hundreds of additional GTLD’s, this could mean a deluge of opportunities cybersquatters and problems for trademark holders.
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Los Angeles – Twenty-three-year-old British computer student, Richard O’Dwyer is facing possible extradition to the United States to be charged with copyright infringement for illegally linking copyrighted material to a website that he created.
The website, TVShack.net which is now showing a government notice that is has been seized, had links to thousands of movies
Los Angeles – Microsoft, Nokia, Hewlett Packard, and other technology companies joined forces in filing objections to Nortel’s proposed bankruptcy sale of more than 6,000 patents to Google, claiming that the deal would give Google an unfair advantage in the cell phone business.
Nortel is a Canadian telecommunications company that filed for bankruptcy protection in January