IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board shot down a Columbus, Ohio science center’s attempt to trademark its name earlier in September, ruling that the proposed trademark “Center of Science and Industry” is merely descriptive and has not acquired enough distinctiveness.
The center’s acronym, COSI, has earned far more
IPNews® – Microsoft Inc. said Monday that it has renewed and refiled trademark applications for the name of the classic 1990s one-on-one fighting video game series Killer Instinct.
The announcement immediately provoked speculation in the gaming community about a reissue of the original games on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade, or even an entirely new installment
IPNews® – Two religious charitable organizations feuding over the trademark rights to the name “Order of Malta” had their dispute tossed back down to the district court by the Eleventh Circuit last week.
The district court erred in finding that the plaintiff order committed fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the appeals court
IPNews® – Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it has “amicably resolved” patent litigation it pursued against a Brazilian company over HP-compatible printer inkjet cartridges that HP said were covered by its patents.
Under the deal with the Brazil-based Rio Branco, distributor of the Brazilian brand Maxprint, Maxprint acknowledged that the patents are valid and enforceable. Maxprint
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Tuesday ruled that a lower court was wrong to find Medtronic Inc. did not infringe two patents for a heart implant device held by a company that licensed the patents to a Boston Scientific Corp. unit.
The appeals court remanded the matter for further proceedings, saying the district court
IPNews® – The U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday kicked off a probe into whether Apple Inc. is importing iPhones, iPads and other products into the U.S. that infringe patents held by Motorola Mobility LLC.
Motorola asked the ITC to investigate the alleged infringement a month ago. The ITC emphasized that its decision to institute
IPNews® – Microsoft Inc. said Tuesday that it has forged a licensing agreement with Research in Motion Ltd. for its latest technology to optimize flash memory storage, widely used in smartphones and other devices.
The Blackberry maker will now be able to use Microsoft’s Extended File Allocation Table, known as exFAT, a modern file system
IPNews® – The online print-on-demand marketplace CafePress Inc. failed to win summary judgment earlier this month in a trademark infringement suit alleging the company wrongly allows users to upload designs and sell merchandise bearing the trademarked phrase “Born To Rock.”
Reasonable jurors could disagree on CafePress’s fair use affirmative defense to the infringement claims, a
IPNews® – Netlist Inc., an Irvine, California based producer of memory modules for cloud computing, said today that it has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a second look at a recently issued patent its rival SMART Modular Technologies Inc. is asserting against Netlist.
SMART claims Netlist’s HyperCloud memory module products infringe the
IPNews® – Citrix Inc. will have to pay $5 million in additional enhanced damages on top of a $10 million patent infringement damage award in favor of SSL Services LLC a jury handed down in June, a Texas federal judge ruled Monday.
Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas said the enhanced damages