IPNews® – Former NFL linebacker Shawne Merriman is in a legal fight with Nike.
The Ex-San Diego Chargers player filed a trademark lawsuit against Nike, alleging that the company’s new “Lights Out” campaign infringes on his decades old nickname. Nike has yet to respond to the allegations. To continue reading, click: Former NFL Star
IPNews® – Tech giant Google has faced an uphill battle in obtaining trademark protection over the word “Glass” for its next big product.
The Silicon Valley powerhouse filed a response to the USPTO’s sweeping refusal of the GLASS trademark application, arguing that there was no likelihood of confusion between “Glass” and other similar trademarks and
IPNews® – The USPTO has denied an investment firm’s trademark application for “Johnny Football,” paving the way for Johnny Football himself to use the name.
Johnny Manziel, winner of the 2012 Heisman Trophy , is seeking to federally protect the Johnny Football trademark through his company, JMAN2 Enterprises, LLC. The win comes with the NFL
IPNews® – The Old Spice whistle appears to be the next famous sound to be awarded trademark protection.
The company most known for its men’s grooming products branded with a nautical marketing theme made the move to protect its iconic jingle earlier this year. The whistle, which has become a mainstay of Old Spice’s marketing
IPNews® – The battle over “I Am” has finally been resolved between Pharrell Williams and Will.i.am.
Williams, who has been involved in a muddle of intellectual property disputes as of late, one famously surrounding his involvement in Robin Thicke’s hit Blurred Lines, had expressed his desire to “talk things out” with Will.i.am. While the
IPNews® – King. com Limited has had a change of heart with regard to its decision to seek trademark protection over “Candy”.
The British mobile game app maker formally requested that the application be abandoned last month. While the decision seems to indicate some sort of change in King’s approach to protecting its intellectual property
IPNews® – The makers of two healthy snack bars are hashing it out over an alleged trade dress infringement.
New York-based Kind, LLC filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of Clif Bars, alleging that Clif’s new Mojo bar improperly imitates its Kind bar, with the packaging and the bar itself appearing confusingly similar to consumers.
IPNews® – The makers the popular graphic design app Paper have sent a letter to Facebook execs, demanding that the famous social networking company stop using the “Paper” name.
FiftyThree, Inc., which created its Paper app years ago, also filed for trademark protection of the word, hoping that this, in combination with its prior registration
IPNews® – The 12th Man is riding high on the Seattle Seahawks Superbowl victory, but the teams use of the name might soon come at a much bigger cost.
The Seattle Seahawks are have a license to use the term “12th Man” through 2016, but only on promotional materials in a limited geographical area. With
IPNews® – After losing a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by the UK’s BSkyB, Microsoft has rebranded its SkyDrive cloud storage system as OneDrive.
The change comes after Microsoft threatened to appeal the decision. However, months after the ruling Microsoft has finally worked out a deal with BSkyB, part of which included changing the SkyDrive name.