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
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