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® – 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® – A German regional chamber of commerce sued Martha Stewart, her company, Emeril Lagasse and the Home Shopping Network last week for infringing its trademark for the name “Solingen” as it relates to knives and other cutlery.
Cutlery bearing the protected Solingen name is by law supposed to be made only in Solingen, Germany
IPNews® – Libya does not have valid, protectable trademarks for the names of its embassy, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled last week, foreclosing on the nation’s challenge to an individual’s registration of domain names using the terms “Libyan Embassy” and “Embassy of Libya.”
The individual, Ahmad Miski, works as a third party expeditor
IPNews® – Frank Sinatra’s estate on Wednesday successfully blocked the trademark application of a hot dog truck owner seeking to register the trademark “Franks Anatra.”
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board threw out Bill Loizon’s application to register the trademark in relation to catering of food and drink, in response
IPNews® – Renowned test pilot Chuck Yeager on Monday lost his Ninth Circuit appeal of his failed suit seeking to hold two old friends liable for using his likeness without authorization in their aviation memorabilia business.
Yeager’s claims were time-barred, the appeals court ruled. The Ninth Circuit ruled that a declaration Yeager submitted to the
IPNews® – The Ninth Circuit let NuVasive Inc. off the hook for a $60 million jury verdict finding it infringed Neurovision Medical Products Inc.’s trademark “Neurovision,” vacating the district court’s judgment and ordering a new trial.
The appeals court found that the Los Angeles federal court ignored Ninth Circuit precedent, persistently cut off or excluded
IPNews® – The Velvet Underground on Friday lost its copyright infringement claim against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. over the licensing of Warhol’s famous banana screenprint cover art for the band’s debut album, but the band’s remaining claims for trademark infringement remain intact.
A New York federal judge ruled that because
IPNews® -Pinterest Inc. last week accused an individual in China of registering domain names and seeking to register trademarks that are confusingly similar to the social network’s trademarked name.
The action in California federal court alleges Qian Jin is a serial cybersquatter who owns hundreds of domain names that infringe the intellectual property of various