Los Angeles – Reply! Inc., an online lead generation company is being sued by air-conditioning company Carrier for trademark infringement. Reply sells its online leads to various businesses, including air conditioning contractors.
In addition to trademark infringement, Carrier is also alleging cyber piracy on the use of the domain, carrier.reply.com. Carrier also has
Los Angeles – In a trademark infringement dispute filed by Chrysler, a judge ruled Tuesday against the auto-maker’s request to bar local retailer, Pure Detroit, from selling T-shirts with the slogan, “Imported From Detroit.” Records indicate that Chrysler applied for the “Imported From Detroit” trademark in late 2010.
Chrysler first introduced the slogan
San Diego – HomeVestors of America, Inc., a franchised business that buys up bank-owned and hard-to-sell homes for cash, has been busy lately protecting its WE BUY UGLY HOUSES trademark. HomeVestor’s business has flourished since the housing bubble popped, making it increasingly aggressive with protecting its intellectual property against third-party infringers.
HomeVestors is the #1 buyer
San Diego – Google has recently filed a trademark for a new service called “Photovine” but nobody is completely sure what it is. Click here to see the Photovine Trademark Application. The Photovine.com domain name is registered under an unnamed owner.
What we do know about “Photovine” is that it is non-downloadable software like
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
