IPNews® – Ed Kowalcyzk is being sued for trademark infringement by his former band Live for allegedly using the band name without authorization.
Kowalcyzk is being accused of trademark infringement, trademark dilution and false designation of origin. The band is seeking $2 million in damages and an injunction to prevent Kowalcyzk from using the name
IPNews® – Paramount Pictures has filed trademark applications for “World War Z” with the USPTO.
Paramount intends to distribute the wildly popular Zombie series in various video game platforms including: Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo 3DS, online and in mobile phone games. The movie will star Brad Pitt. To continue reading, click: Paramount Pictures Files for
IPNews® – In a year of setbacks for the beleaguered Blackberry manufacturer, Research in Motion was found guilty of patent infringement last week after a three-week trial and a week of jury deliberations.
The decision, handed down last Friday in the Northern District of California, resulted in an award of $147.2 million in damages, approximately
IPNews® – Apple was recently awarded a patent for its noise-canceling iPhone cases, which incorporate a “windscreen” that reduces wind or any other background noises that may affect call quality.
According to the patent application, originally filed in January 2011, the case will be formed from plastic, acrylic, polycarbonate, silicon, or rubber, and the screen
IPNews® – The patent for Microsoft’s latest rendition of its famous Xbox was recently published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The look and feel of the new Xbox will be closer to a desktop computer with the addition of two smaller gaming consoles that are combined for single use and an upgradeable
IPNews® – Start-up energy drink manufacturer Bodyarmor SuperDrink is being sued by Under Armour for trademark infringement in U.S. District Court in the District of Maryland.
The answer, filed recently, showed that Bodyarmor filed its trademark application with the USPTO approximately five years ago with no objections from Under Armour. The drink manufacturer calls the
IPNews® – Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has two patents for its K-Cup technology expiring in September 2012.
However, despite the dire predictions of industry experts that there will be a glut of cheap K-Cup imitations in the marketplace soon, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters claims that its filters have since been replaced with newer technology. The
IPNews® – With recent trademark applications filed for terms such as LINSANITY, FEAR THE BROW and THAT’S A CLOWN QUESTIONS, BRO, it appears that professional athletes are increasingly seeking trademark protection.
In a very interesting article written by Doug Williams at ESPN, we learn the origins of the trend and just how far it has
IPNews® – Hulu recently announced that it had dropped its opposition to Dish Network’s trademark application for “TV Everywhere”.
Hulu had previously claimed the term should not be registered to Dish Network because it was commonly used by a number of other cable providers as a standard and generic industry term. The application is also
IPNews® – Apple was awarded a patent this week for a head-mounted display device that projects an image in front of the viewer’s eyes and is designed to enhance and augment reality.
Patent number 8,212,859, designed to compete with Google’s new Google Glass, could be incorporated into a helmet, glasses or a visor. The newly