IPNews® – Tiffany LLC accused a Texas-based online retailer on Monday of infringing its trademarks by selling counterfeit jewelry.
Olga Sanchez, who operates Bag Fashion Under God, Elegant Bags, BagFashionMore.com and BagFashionSpa.com, is directly and personally engaging in the sale of counterfeit products, Tiffany says. The company is seeking $2 million in damages per trademark
IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently rejected claims of fraud on the PTO in connection with a musician’s federal registration for the name of the Mexican band Grupo Pegasso.
Frontera Music had sought to cancel Federico Estevan Vasquez’s registration for the trademark, saying that he falsely claimed
IPNews® – Facebook Inc. was hit with a putative trademark infringement class action on behalf of retailers of officially licensed National Football league merchandise on Monday, alleging it is allowing counterfeiters to post ads for knockoff NFL goods.
Facebook goes so far as to allow counterfeiters’ ads to show up as sponsored links on the
IPNews® – Nordstrom Inc. sued an Internet clothing retailer in Seattle federal court on Friday over its unauthorized use of Nordstrom’s federally registered “Rack” trademark in relation to discount clothing sales.
NoMoreRack Retail Group Inc. and NoMoreRack.com Inc. have refused to stop treading on Nordstrom’s intellectual property rights in the Rack name despite repeated demands
IPNews® – The inspirational book publisher Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing LLC came under fire from Campbell Soup Co. in New Jersey federal court on Wednesday for attempting to launch its own line of actual soups bearing labels that are confusingly similar to the iconic Campbell logo.
Chicken Soup for the Soul is deliberately
IPNews® – The owners of Washington, D.C.’s legendary Wisemiller’s Grocery and Deli sued a neighboring pizza parlor last month for ripping off its trademark name, logo and menu design.
Wisemiller’s, affectionately known to its customers as Wisey’s, called Davar Ashgrizzadeh’s renaming of his Cafe Romeo’s pizzeria to “Wiseats” a futile effort to promote its markedly
IPNews® – The North Face Apparel Corp. successfully blocked the makers of a clothing line named “The Butt Face” from using The North Face trademark or any confusingly similar or parodic name, with a consent judgment filed Wednesday holding the makers in contempt.
The Missouri district court ruled that The Butt Face violated a 2010
IPNews® – The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal ruled that a lower court judge was right to find Samsung Electronics Co. did not infringe Apple Inc.’s designs when producing its own tablet computers.
The lower court issued its finding of no infringement in July, and ordered Apple to publish advertisements stating that Samsung had not
IPNews® – The owners of the Longhorn Steakhouse chain of restaurants are facing new trademark infringement claims from a Las Vegas casino that shares the name of the restaurant chain’s Golden Nugget fried cheesecake dessert.
The Golden Nugget Las Vegas has been using the name continuously since it opened in 1946, and owns a number
IPNews® – A California federal judge scolded Groupion LLC Monday for seeking to have him disqualified from hearing its trademark infringement and cybersquatting battle with Groupon Inc., saying its motion was based solely on one adverse ruling.
Groupion sought to have Judge Jeffrey White recused on the grounds that he reviewed and considered documents that