IPNews® – Tesla has made the bold move to take on Ford over the trademark rights to the “Model E” name, which many sources speculate will be the name of Tesla’s next electric car.
Elon Musk’s famed electric-only car manufacturing company filed a trademark application for “Model E” in the summer of 2013. The move
IPNews® – A Napa Valley winery has sued Duck Commander, Inc. and those responsible for producing and selling wines related to the popular Duck Dynasty reality TV series.
Duckhorn Wine Company alleges that confusion is likely to occur among consumers between the Duck Dynasty themed wines and its own wines, which it has been
IPNews® – ShareTV recently won a trademark infringement case against a Korean citizen which included the transfer of the Sharetv.com domain name.
For its seven years in operation, ShareTV had been using ShareTV.org because the ShareTV.com domain had been registered years earlier. After multiple attempts to try to resolve the presence of what it found
IPNews® – Ron Rivera, head coach of the up and coming Carolina Panthers, has filed a trademark application to protect his namesake “Riverboat Ron”.
Rivera, who notes that he earned the moniker as a result of his recent attitude shift favoring a more aggressive style of play , is the latest in a string of
IPNews® – Hanginout, Inc. has filed a trademark lawsuit against Google, Inc. for its use of “Hangouts”
The much smaller San Diego company took on the Northern California giant, filing a trademark infringement lawsuit last month. The complaint claims that Google is wrongfully using “Hangouts” to refer to its live video chat app, which infringes
IPNews® – Burberry has filed an appeal to keep its trademark for its famous plaid design alive in China.
One of fashion’s most well known designs, the Burberry tartan print, is in trouble in China after the Chinese Intellectual Property Office cancelled its protection due to non-use. Burberry has filed paperwork to appeal the cancellation
IPNews® – Gus Malzahn, the head coach of Auburn University’s football team, filed an application to gain trademark protection over his signature offensive style of “Hurry Up No Huddle.”
The application was filed in mid-November and has yet to be assigned to an examining attorney at the USPTO. In the meantime, Auburn and its Hurry
IPNews® – California is getting its own branch of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The satellite office, which is set to open in late 2014, will make it easier for companies and inventors based on the West Coast to get their patents processed. This new branch is the second of four total planned
IPNews® – A small New Hampshire-based coffee company won a major victory against big-time coffee maker Starbucks.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Starbucks had failed to show that its brand would be harmed by the smaller company’s “Charbucks” line of coffee products. As such, it was denied the injunction it was
IPNews® – The TTAB recently ruled that BOTULEX is confusingly similar to BOTOX, which will prevent the BOTULEX trademark application from proceeding to registration.
The fight over younger looking skin has a winner as the makers of BOTOX successfully opposed a trademark application for BOTULEX, the brand name of similar skin rejuvenation products. The victory