IPNews® – The maker of Johnny Love Vodka failed on Tuesday to convince a Nevada federal judge to halt Beam Inc.’s sales of its flavored Pucker Vodka based on the Jim Beam whiskey maker’s alleged infringement of its trademark for a lip print design.
The trademarks are not similar enough to warrant the issuance of
IPNews® – The National Parent Teacher Association is claiming in a new lawsuit filed Wednesday that PTO Today is infringing its trademarks and falsely claiming an association with it that does not exist.
PTO Today is a for-profit rival company owned by School Family Media Inc. that provides products and services to parent teacher groups.
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of a “death care” company’s attempt to win a declaratory judgment warding off a potential patent infringement suit from another company over a method of cremating human remains without incinerating them.
Matthews International Corp.’s claims that Biosafe Engineering’s patents are invalid, unenforceable and not infringed
IPNews® – Craigslist Inc. is illegally protecting its monopolistic position in the online classified ad market by threatening and filing sham copyright and trademark infringement litigation, a public listing database service said Monday in response to Craigslist’s recently-filed infringement claims against it.
3Taps Inc. says Craigslist is engaging in unfair competition and violations of antitrust
IPNews® – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week told a California federal judge that Google Inc. must be compelled to provide depositions in the Academy’s trademark infringement case against GoDaddy.com over alleged Oscar-related cybersquatting on GoDaddy-registered domain names.
AMPAS wants to know what role Google’s “AdSense for Domains” advertising program played
IPNews® – SK Hynix Inc. has reached a settlement with Intellectual Ventures Inc. of the latter’s claims that Hynix infringed its patents for semiconductor technology, IV said Monday.
Hynix also won a favorable court ruling on Friday in California, meanwhile, limiting the royalties it will have to pay to Rambus Inc. for infringing that company’s
IPNews® – RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Star Scientific Inc. on Monday put to rest Star’s long-running patent infringement suit alleging RJ Reynolds improperly used its technology for reducing carcinogens in tobacco.
The settlement reached resolves all of the pending claims and counterclaims in the suit, with no acknowledgement of liability on either side. Both
IPNews® – Conde Nast was hit with a declaratory judgment lawsuit on Friday at the hands of a luxury goods online store seeking a declaration that it is not infringing the magazine publisher’s trademark for the name of Vogue Magazine.
Voguevert LLC claims that its name, for which it has already obtained a federal trademark
IPNews® – Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. claimed in a new trademark infringement lawsuit Friday that rival fast food chain Jack in the Box Inc. misappropriated its name for a recent promotion.
Jack in the Box’s limited time offer for a Chipotle Chicken Club Combo, and accompanying use of the neologism “Chipotload,” infringe Chipotle’s trademark for
IPNews® – Verizon Communications Inc. agreed Monday to pay $250.4 million to settle TiVo Inc.’s patent infringement claims related to digital video recording technology.
The two companies will also enter a mutual patent licensing agreement, TiVo said. The pair are now pursuing possible collaborations in the realm of Internet video, according to TiVo. To continue