IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on Wednesday foreclosed on Apple Inc.’s hopes of registering the square, orange music player app icon for its iPhone and iPad as a trademark.
The proposed trademark is too similar to a square, orange icon — also featuring a double musical note
IPNews® – NoHo Barcade, a new arcade game themed bar in North Hollywood, is fighting off trademark infringement claims from the East Coast based Barcade LLC, which claims it owns the trademark to the name as it relates to bars and bar services.
The Barcade trademark is not valid, not used in interstate commerce, and
IPNews® – A South Carolina fitness center filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media LLC Wednesday alleging the company’s Style Network reality television show Wicked Fit comes too close to the gym’s trademarked name.
Wicked Fitness LLC owns the federal trademark registrations for its name and a range of variants, and has operated under
IPNews® – Google Inc.’s advertising campaign in support of its newly introduced Nexus 7 tablet is infringing Market Street Press Inc.’s trademark for the phrase “The Playground Is Open,” according to a new lawsuit Market Street filed in North Carolina last week.
Market Street, which sells promotional and marketing merchandise, says it has been using
IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board shot down a Columbus, Ohio science center’s attempt to trademark its name earlier in September, ruling that the proposed trademark “Center of Science and Industry” is merely descriptive and has not acquired enough distinctiveness.
The center’s acronym, COSI, has earned far more
IPNews® – Microsoft Inc. said Monday that it has renewed and refiled trademark applications for the name of the classic 1990s one-on-one fighting video game series Killer Instinct.
The announcement immediately provoked speculation in the gaming community about a reissue of the original games on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade, or even an entirely new installment
IPNews® – Two religious charitable organizations feuding over the trademark rights to the name “Order of Malta” had their dispute tossed back down to the district court by the Eleventh Circuit last week.
The district court erred in finding that the plaintiff order committed fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the appeals court
IPNews® – The online print-on-demand marketplace CafePress Inc. failed to win summary judgment earlier this month in a trademark infringement suit alleging the company wrongly allows users to upload designs and sell merchandise bearing the trademarked phrase “Born To Rock.”
Reasonable jurors could disagree on CafePress’s fair use affirmative defense to the infringement claims, a
IPNews® – A German regional chamber of commerce sued Martha Stewart, her company, Emeril Lagasse and the Home Shopping Network last week for infringing its trademark for the name “Solingen” as it relates to knives and other cutlery.
Cutlery bearing the protected Solingen name is by law supposed to be made only in Solingen, Germany
IPNews® – Libya does not have valid, protectable trademarks for the names of its embassy, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled last week, foreclosing on the nation’s challenge to an individual’s registration of domain names using the terms “Libyan Embassy” and “Embassy of Libya.”
The individual, Ahmad Miski, works as a third party expeditor