IPNews® – After a three year lawsuit, Gucci has won its trademark infringement case against Guess and was awarded $4.66 million dollars.
Gucci originally sought $120 million in damages. Apart from the damage award, an injunction also issued which prohibits Guess from producing three of the four signature “G” trademarks owned by Gucci. To continue
IPNews® – Beyonce and Jay-Z have recently filed a trademark application for their new baby’s name “Blue Ivy Carter”.
The application is in multiple classes and includes planned use on CD’s, DVD’s, apparel, and live musical performances. To some it may seem odd to trademark a baby name, but in this case it appears that
IPNews® – Adidas filed a lawsuit against Costa Mesa, California based World Industries and Big 5 for trademark infringement of its three parallel diagonal-striped design.
Adidas is accusing World Industries of producing a shoe which infringes on its trademarks, and is accusing Big 5 for selling and advertising the infringing product. Adidas is seeking monetary
IPNews® – A Los Angeles marketing firm that creates websites to generate business leads for other companies is being sued for trademark infringement by USAA of San Antonio.
D and D Marketing, DBA T3 Leads, allegedly used USAA’s trademarked name in domain names to attract consumers including military families that eventually submitted their names and
IPNews® – Sportswear giant Nike is being sued for trademark infringement for using the term “Lottery Pick” on a Michael Jordan jacket.
The plaintiff, Urban Motive Sportswear, registered “Lottery Pick” with the USPTO in 2006 and has since been selling an energy drink, sportswear, and other merchandise using the trademark. Michael Jordan, acclaimed as being
IPNews® – General Motors, owner of the premium Buick brand, has filed to register the “Riviera” trademark, leaving car buffs wondering if the nostalgic model will make a comeback.
The original Riviera was manufactured in the United States between 1963 and 1999. More recently GM featured a sleek-looking Riviera concept car at the 2007 Shanghai
IPNews® – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued its judgment upholding the Maker’s Mark wax seal trade dress.
The appellate court upheld an original ruling in a trademark infringement case filed by Maker’s Mark back in 2003. Diageo, a Cuervo affiliate, had appealed the decision which also ordered Diageo to stop
IPNews® – Lamborghini recently filed for the trademark ‘Huracan’ in classes 12 & 28 for passenger and model cars.
Although it is unknown as to just what kind of car the ‘Huracan’ will be, some have speculated that it is the re-name for the recently announced upcoming Lamborghini Urus SUV. The luxury car company has
IPNews® – Fearing a trademark infringement lawsuit from denim giant Levi Strauss & Company, a North Dakota-based retailer filed first asking a judge to settle the dispute.
Vanity Clothing of Fargo filed a complaint in response to a cease and desist letter that it received from Levi Strauss related to the “V” pocket design on
IPNews® – Apple and Samsung are facing an order by a Judge to limit patent and trademark claims against one another.
Judge Kho of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has recently ordered that Apple and Samsung attempt to simplify the case prior to trial so as not to confuse a