p.jpgIPNews® – Pinterest lost two cases it filed over trademark infringement, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom.

Both cases focused on the concepts and phrases surrounding the ideas of “pinning.”  Judges in both cases claimed that “pinning” and “pins” are too broad of concepts for all related trademarks to belong

p.jpgIPNews® – Last week Pinterest hit travel site Pintrips with a Trademark Infringement Lawsuit for being too similar its popular “pinning” application.

In the lawsuit, Pinterest seeks to shut down the startup travel website Pintrips for causing consumer confusion.   In support of its claim of infringement, Pinterest cites the similarity of the names and the