IPNews® – NoHo Barcade, a new arcade game themed bar in North Hollywood, is fighting off trademark infringement claims from the East Coast based Barcade LLC, which claims it owns the trademark to the name as it relates to bars and bar services.
The Barcade trademark is not valid, not used in interstate commerce, and
IPNews® – A South Carolina fitness center filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media LLC Wednesday alleging the company’s Style Network reality television show Wicked Fit comes too close to the gym’s trademarked name.
Wicked Fitness LLC owns the federal trademark registrations for its name and a range of variants, and has operated under
IPNews® – A German court granted Microsoft Inc. an injunction Thursday against the sale of any of Google Inc.-owned Motorola Mobility LLC’s devices that infringe a Microsoft-held European patent for a software input function.
The technology at issue is a cornerstone of the Android operating system, and the judge found that the operating system itself
IPNews® – Google Inc.’s advertising campaign in support of its newly introduced Nexus 7 tablet is infringing Market Street Press Inc.’s trademark for the phrase “The Playground Is Open,” according to a new lawsuit Market Street filed in North Carolina last week.
Market Street, which sells promotional and marketing merchandise, says it has been using
IPNews® – Unwired Planet LLC attacked Google Inc. and Apple Inc. in Nevada federal court Wednesday over the tech giants’ alleged infringement of its patent portfolio covering mobile internet technology.
The company was an early innovator in mobile internet browsers for phones, but was pushed out of the market by infringing competition, the complaints say.
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® – 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