IPNews® – Cointreau Corp. successfully persuaded a Texas federal judge on Tuesday to block all U.S. sales of a Mexican competitor’s rival orange liqueur that it claims dilutes its trademark for the Cointreau brand.
La Madrileña SA de CV has made and sold Controy orange liqueur in Mexico since the 1930s, and Pura Vida Tequila
IPNews® – An Illinois federal judge said Friday that a preliminary injunction may possibly be warranted to ban William Wrigley Jr. Co. from using the name Swerve for a flavor of its “5” sugar-free gum, based on another company’s trademark for the name for artificial sweeteners.
The judge put off deciding the final merits of
IPNews® – Cadbury PLC succeeded on Monday in its attempts to obtain valid United Kingdom trademark protection for the shade of purple it uses to package its chocolate products, according to news reports.
The shade Pantone 2865C has acquired enough distinctiveness in its association with Cadbury’s milk chocolate and chocolate beverages to deserve trademark rights
IPNews® – Lockheed Martin Corp. has unlawfully seized upon Raytheon Co.’s Paveway trademark for laser guided bombs to promote its own products and wrongly profit off of Raytheon’s goodwill, Raytheon claimed in a new trademark infringement lawsuit Thursday.
Raytheon and its predecessor Texas Instruments have exclusively made and marketed LGBs under the Paveway name since
IPNews® – Marlon Brando’s estate is facing a lawsuit demanding that it live up to its agreements under a contract made earlier this year to grant the use of the late actor’s rights of publicity and likeness to Madonna for her 2012 world tour.
The estate previously agreed to license the rights for $3,750, as
IPNews® – Wright Medical Technology is wrongly borrowing the trademark name for a recently-debuted Stryker Corp. knee implant in order to bring more attention and sales to Wright’s own knee implant products, Stryker alleged in a new infringement lawsuit Thursday.
Stryker launched its GetAroundKnee product earlier this year in conjunction with a massive advertising campaign
IPNews® – DC Comics accused a Florida barbershop proprietor on Tuesday of misappropriating its trademarks for the Superman name and logo.
Reginal Jones, operator of Supermen Fades To Fros and Superman Pro Barbershop, is using Superman iconography on his barbers’ shirts, aprons and capes as well as the very names and signage of his businesses
IPNews® – A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday let Liz Claiborne Inc. and its Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. denim subsidiary off the hook for a rival fashion group’s trademark infringement claims over its trademark for the phrase “Get Lucky.”
Marcel Fashions Group Inc. already had the opportunity to seek the injunction it is asking for
IPNews® – The Humane Society of the United States came under fire Monday from the National Pork Board for its newly filed lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its authorization of the $60 million purchase of the trademark “The Other White Meat” from a pork industry political lobbying group.
The board, a quasi-governmental
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