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IPNews® - General Motors, owner of the premium Buick brand, has filed to register the “Riviera” trademark, leaving car buffs wondering if the nostalgic model will make a comeback. 

The original Riviera was manufactured in the United States between 1963 and 1999.  More recently GM featured a sleek-looking Riviera concept car at the 2007 Shanghai Auto Show and the 2008 North American International Auto Show.  General Motors, which has been nonchalant about its motive for filing the trademark application, has been known in the past to register trademarks for new cars that come from historic nameplates.  To continue reading, click: GM Files Riviera Trademark

IPNews® - Lamborghini recently filed for the trademark ‘Huracan’ in classes 12 & 28 for passenger and model cars. 

Although it is unknown as to just what kind of car the ‘Huracan’ will be, some have speculated that it is the re-name for the recently announced upcoming Lamborghini Urus SUV.  The luxury car company has had multiple cars named after Spanish words that have an association to bullfighting.  To continue reading, click: Lamborghini Seeks Huracan Trademark

IPNews® - Apple and Samsung are facing an order by a Judge to limit patent and trademark claims against one another.

Judge Kho of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has recently ordered that Apple and Samsung attempt to simplify the case prior to trial so as not to confuse a jury.  The trial date is set for July 30 but Judge Koh has threatened to postpone the trial if necessary.  To continue reading, click: Apple v. Samsung Claims

IPNews® - Burberry Group, the London high fashion house, has filed a complaint with a New York federal court, asking it to declare that the British company did not infringe on the trademark for late actor Humphrey Bogart. 

Burberry, which licensed the image from Corbis of Bogart wearing a Burberry trench coat in his portrayal from the classic, “Casablanca,” claims that the defendant, Bogart, LLC is attempting to exert trademark rights that it does not possess.  To continue reading, click: Don't Bogart My Image

IPNews® - Duff Beer UG, a German-based brewer, is attempting to register the trademark “Duff” with the European Union general court, in its attempt to cash in on cartoon character Homer Simpson’s favorite beverage. 

The German beer maker is asking a Luxembourg court to overturn a ruling from the EU trademark agency that prevented it from registering the trademark in black, white, and red, the same colors used to label the beer cans on the animated cartoon, The Simpsons.  To continue reading, click: Duff Beer Fight