IPNews® – Wright Medical Technology is wrongly borrowing the trademark name for a recently-debuted Stryker Corp. knee implant in order to bring more attention and sales to Wright’s own knee implant products, Stryker alleged in a new infringement lawsuit Thursday.
Stryker launched its GetAroundKnee product earlier this year in conjunction with a massive advertising campaign
IPNews® – DC Comics accused a Florida barbershop proprietor on Tuesday of misappropriating its trademarks for the Superman name and logo.
Reginal Jones, operator of Supermen Fades To Fros and Superman Pro Barbershop, is using Superman iconography on his barbers’ shirts, aprons and capes as well as the very names and signage of his businesses
IPNews® – A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday let Liz Claiborne Inc. and its Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. denim subsidiary off the hook for a rival fashion group’s trademark infringement claims over its trademark for the phrase “Get Lucky.”
Marcel Fashions Group Inc. already had the opportunity to seek the injunction it is asking for
IPNews® – The Humane Society of the United States came under fire Monday from the National Pork Board for its newly filed lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its authorization of the $60 million purchase of the trademark “The Other White Meat” from a pork industry political lobbying group.
The board, a quasi-governmental
IPNews® – The maker of Johnny Love Vodka failed on Tuesday to convince a Nevada federal judge to halt Beam Inc.’s sales of its flavored Pucker Vodka based on the Jim Beam whiskey maker’s alleged infringement of its trademark for a lip print design.
The trademarks are not similar enough to warrant the issuance of
IPNews® – The National Parent Teacher Association is claiming in a new lawsuit filed Wednesday that PTO Today is infringing its trademarks and falsely claiming an association with it that does not exist.
PTO Today is a for-profit rival company owned by School Family Media Inc. that provides products and services to parent teacher groups.
IPNews® – Craigslist Inc. is illegally protecting its monopolistic position in the online classified ad market by threatening and filing sham copyright and trademark infringement litigation, a public listing database service said Monday in response to Craigslist’s recently-filed infringement claims against it.
3Taps Inc. says Craigslist is engaging in unfair competition and violations of antitrust
IPNews® – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week told a California federal judge that Google Inc. must be compelled to provide depositions in the Academy’s trademark infringement case against GoDaddy.com over alleged Oscar-related cybersquatting on GoDaddy-registered domain names.
AMPAS wants to know what role Google’s “AdSense for Domains” advertising program played
IPNews® – Conde Nast was hit with a declaratory judgment lawsuit on Friday at the hands of a luxury goods online store seeking a declaration that it is not infringing the magazine publisher’s trademark for the name of Vogue Magazine.
Voguevert LLC claims that its name, for which it has already obtained a federal trademark
IPNews® – Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. claimed in a new trademark infringement lawsuit Friday that rival fast food chain Jack in the Box Inc. misappropriated its name for a recent promotion.
Jack in the Box’s limited time offer for a Chipotle Chicken Club Combo, and accompanying use of the neologism “Chipotload,” infringe Chipotle’s trademark for