San Diego – Recently, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced a new plan to dramatically increase the number of generic top-level domain names, or GTLD’s, by the end of 2012. With the expansion of possibly hundreds of additional GTLD’s, this could mean a deluge of opportunities cybersquatters and problems for trademark holders.
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San Diego – With Apple’s new iCloud service barely out of the gate, Apple has already been sued in the US District Court in Arizona for trademark infringement. The plaintiff is a company called iCloud Communications. While the Arizona-based iCloud alleges that it has used the iCloud trademark since 2005, it apparently has never registered the
San Diego – The Sarah Palin Political Action Committee (Sarah PAC) has embarked on an East Coast bus tour which is causing quite a stir. No, not because Paul Revere warned the British. It is because Palin is using an already trademarked name to promote the tour.
Palin is calling her tour “One Nation”, which
San Diego – American clothing retailer ‘Forever 21’ is threatening to file a lawsuit against fashion blogger Rachel Kane for trademark infringement, copyright infringement, unfair competition and dilution of the ‘Forever 21’ brand. ’Forever 21’ is an American company with locations in twenty countries offering reasonably priced apparel and accessories to young men and women.
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Los Angeles – On May 23rd, a federal judge ruled that The Little Sturgis Rally in Sturgis, Kentucky “is immediately, permanently, and perpetually restrained” from using any reference to Sturgis Rally when promoting its motorcycle event held annually to raise money for charity. The ruling was part of a settlement in a trademark
San Diego –We see that Charlie Sheen has been adding to his growing trademark portfolio again. His two most recently filed trademark applications are for Masheen and Sheenius. Both applications were filed in one class of goods but the descriptions cover many different classes which means that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is
Los Angeles – United States Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, has blocked a controversial copyright bill that would require ISP’s, search engines, and other businesses to block access to websites that promote copyright infringement, piracy, and counterfeiting.
On Thursday, just two weeks after the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual
Los Angeles – After we blogged earlier this week about Disney applying to trademark “Seal Team 6” in order to capitalize on the heroism of the Navy Seals that were responsible for killing bin Laden, it quickly did an about-face by filing express abandonments for all three trademark applications.
Apparently, Disney received a bit
San Diego – It looks like there will finally be peace in candy land. Hershey has decided to withdraw a trademark infringement lawsuit it filed last fall against candy competitor Mars. It was reported Tuesday that lawyers for both companies filed a joint stipulated dismissal. No reason was given for the joint dismissals. You
