Orange County – After months of mediation to resolve a dispute over the Groupon trademark and Groupon.com.au domain name, it appears that the Chicago-based online group-buying site will be forced to market itself to Australians as Stardeals.com.au. Groupon invites consumers to register on its website to receive daily emails from local businesses offering discounts
Drudge Settles With Righthaven in Copyright Infringement Suit
Los Angeles – Matt Drudge, owner of the Drudge Report, has reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with Righthaven LLC. Righthaven is a copyright holding company founded in 2010, which acquires newspaper content and photos from its partner newspapers after learning that the content has been used without permission by online sites. Righthaven then sues
Subway Sued Over “Footlong” Trademark
San Diego – Subway is being sued in federal trademark court in a dispute over the term “Footlong”. Apparently, the world’s largest sandwich chain hopes the courts will rule that “Footlong” is a noun that describes its signature sandwiches. Subway has filed a Footlong trademark application and is currently using it in a multi-million dollar
Hasbro wins “Play-Doh” trademark case
San Diego – Hasbro, the world’s second-largest toymaker, has succeeded in winning a trademark infringement action against a U.K. toy distributor MAPS Toys. Hasbro sued Maps as well as German company 123 Nahrmittel over its infringing use of the term “play dough” with its “Yummy Dough” product.
The suit, filed with the High
Blingville, Farmville And Cityville Makes One too Many Villes
San Diego – If you are a Facebook user, and chances are pretty good that you are, you’ve likely been exposed to the social networking application called “Farmville.” Developed by Zynga Inc., Farmville now has over 14 million active daily users and 56 million active monthly users. The game’s popularity has been so overwhelming that
Twitter Co-founder Sues Over Square Patent
Orange County – Twitter co-founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has filed suit over the patent rights to Square, a device that Time Magazine named as one of the Top 50 Inventions in 2010. Jim McKelvey, a glassblowing artist turned entrepreneur has joined Dorsey in the lawsuit against Robert Morley, an associate professor of electrical engineering
Ford sues Ferrari over Trademark: The Race for F150
Though at first blush Ford’s claim may seem a little silly, we don’t think it is. Should Ford allow Ferrari to use the F150 trademark in relation to Ferrari’s automobiles, it would become much harder to stop a similar infringement in the future.
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Pac-10 Conference runs into snag with Pac12 Domain Name
Orange County – The Pac-10 is no stranger to competition. The west coast college athletic conference has now expanded by two teams and could be facing its toughest competitor yet. It appears that a dedicated Tupac Shakur fan is already the owner of the trophy at stake: the domain name pac12.com.
The domain, which was
LG Playing “Patent Wars” With Sony
San Diego – Reacting to a patent infringement suit filed by Sony, LG Electronics has filed its own patent infringement complaint, attempting to have sales of the PlayStation 3 banned in the United States.
The battle began in December when Sony, the Tokyo-based consumer electronics giant, filed a complaint claiming that LG’s mobile phone
“The King’s Speech” bitten over trademark use
San Diego – The American Humane Association (AHA) has threatened legal action against the producers of the academy-award winning movie “The King’s Speech”. The film’s credits used the phrase “No animals were harmed” referring to the treatment of Corgi dogs that appeared in the movie. According to the AHA, this is in violation of its trademark