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
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