IPNews® – Bausch & Lomb recently filed a counterclaim seeking cancelation of the trademark SEE BETTER LIVE BETTER.
The original lawsuit was filed by a Florida Ophthalmologist against Bausch & Lomb for trademark infringement. Bausch & Lomb is alleging that the trademark is in widespread use and therefore has become generic. To continue reading, click:
IPNews® – The maker of the Tommy Gun machine gun recently filed a lawsuit to stop a new brand of vodka which uses the Tommy Guns name.
Saeilo Enterprises, Inc. filed the trademark and trade dress lawsuit in New York against Alphonse Capone Enterprises, Inc. Beyond vodka, Alphonse Capone Enterprises also sells cigars and operates
IPNews® – After issuing an Office Action refusing registration of the IPAD MINI trademark, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office recently reversed its position on two separate grounds.
The Examining Attorney at the USPTO initially believed that the trademark IPAD MINI was merely descriptive, and also rejected the specimen of use submitted with the application.
IPNews® -The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in Disney’s favor in a case involving the TINKERBELL trademark.
The 2nd Circuit held that Disney had the unfettered right to buy the TINKERBELL trademark despite the existence of an ongoing license to a third company – Icebox-Scoops, Inc. Icebox-Scoops had claimed that it
IPNews® – Unilever NV and International IP Holdings, LLC have filed lawsuits against each other in two separate federal courts to determine whether the SLIMFUL trademark infringes the SLIM-FAST trademark.
International IP Holdings filed a lawsuit for declaratory relief that its SLIMFUL trademark does not infringe Unilever’s SLIM-FAST trademark in Michigan federal court. Unilever also
IPNews® – The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling that jewelry maker Solid 21’s RED GOLD trademark is generic and therefore is not protectable.
Solid 21’s rival Breitling USA, Inc. argued that the lower court was right to dismiss the lawsuit brought against it by Solid 21 because the trademark RED GOLD is generic
IPNews® – A U.S. federal judge denied Aereo, Inc.’s bid for a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com, Inc. that would have prohibited FilmOn from using the AERO trademark or the Aero.tv domain name until the trademark infringement lawsuit between the two concluded.
Aereo alleged that FilmOn purposely chose Aero as the name of its online
IPNews® – A group of Native Americans are attempting to have six Washington Redskins’ trademarks cancelled, claiming that the team’s name is disparaging to Native Americans.
In a hearing in front of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board last week, a group of Native Americans argued that because the team’s
IPNews® – Facebook, Inc. is tangled in another round of litigation, this time for the website’s timeline feature, which a rival claims infringes its trademarks.
Timelines, Inc. alleges that Facebook’s timeline feature infringes its TIMELINES trademark, but Facebook claims the trademark should never have been granted because the term is generic. Timelines countered that just
IPNews® – The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board denied a drug company’s application to trademark the peppermint scent and taste of its nitroglycerin spray used to treat chest pain.
The board ruled that because the peppermint oil increases the effectiveness of the nitroglycerin spray, it is a functional aspect of the drug and therefore cannot