IPNews® – 132 domain names were seized yesterday by US and European Government Officials.
The Cyber Monday crackdown has been growing since its inception in 2010 and targets websites that attempt to con consumers into buying counterfeit goods. Though most of the websites are based overseas, two Southern California-based websites were also seized.
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IPNews® – Texas A&M freshman QB Johnny Manziel is working to trademark his “Johnny Football” nickname but he was beaten to the punch.
Kenneth R. Reynolds Family Investments has already applied for the “Johnny Football” trademark for use in relation to athletic wear, footballs, and video games. Due to NCAA rules, even if Johnny Manziel
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit recently upheld a TTAB decision refusing an attempt to cancel three VILLAGE PEOPLE trademarks.
The wife and agent of former Village People frontman Victor Willis filed petitions to cancel the three trademark registrations. Two of the trademark registrations were for live music and one was for recorded music. To continue
IPNews® – Reynolds Innovations Inc. recently filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against SAS Technologies related to electronic cigarettes.
The lawsuit alleges that SAS Technologies is infringing on Reynolds’ Camel and Winston brands. In addition to cigarettes, the Alabama-based SAS Technologies manufactures and sells flavored liquid nicotine products for use with the smokeless cigarettes. To continue
IPNews® – Tim Tebow’s trademark application for his famous “Tebowing” slogan is one step closer to trademark registration.
The famous slogan was published for opposition by the USPTO in October. If no one opposes the application, the registration will issue soon therafter. To continue reading, click: Tebowing Is One Step Closer To Trademark Registration.
IPNews® – California Central District Court Judge Andrew Guilford kept the trademark infringement claims of Hero Nutritionals alive this week in a ruling against Nutraceutical Corporation’s motion for summary judgment.
Hero owns the “Yummi Bear” trademark for vitamins and claims that Nutraceutical Corporation is violating those rights by marketing and selling vitamins with such names
IPNews® – The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender student fraternal organization Delta Lambda Phi sued a new fraternity at the University of California at Santa Cruz that it says is infringing its trademark rights with a confusingly similar name and acronym.
Delta Lambda Psi was formed in 2005 after a group of gay students came
IPNews® – Yelp Inc. is infringing and profiting off of its misuse of Village Voice Media Holdings LLC’s trademarks for its annual “Best Of” features in its publications in many cities across the U.S., the national alt-weekly publisher alleged in a new action in Arizona federal court on Thursday.
Village Voice Media found out in
IPNews® – A Los Angeles federal judge on Wednesday shut down Google Inc.’s attempt to ditch claims that it aided and abetted ContentWatch Inc. in misusing Cybersitter LLC’s trademarks in online ads to draw attention to ContentWatch’s own products.
Cybersitter, which developed, markets and sells an Internet content-filtering program, sued Google and ContentWatch Inc. over
IPNews® – The owners of the popular San Jose tourist attraction the Winchester Mystery House cannot hold a film production company liable for using the Mystery House’s trademarks without authorization, a California state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Global Asylum Inc. has a First Amendment right to use the name of the historical 160 room mansion