San Diego – Ever since the recent killing of Osama bin Laden, there has been a race to capitalize on the heroism of the U.S. Navy Seals. Just days after bin Laden succumbed in a firefight with what was identified as the “Seal Team 6”, Disney filed a trademark application for it.
This, however, was
San Diego – A recent study by the United States International Trade Commission has revealed that intellectual property infringement by China is costing the U.S. more than one million jobs. Despite stricter Chinese laws in the areas of trademarks, copyrights, and patents, China continues to be a haven for counterfeiters and pirates.
The Trade Commission
Los Angeles – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently unveiled its Trademarks Dashboard feature which provides a summary of expected time to examine trademarks and other trademark office statistics such as total trademark filings by year.
The statistics show that currently trademark applications are being assigned to examiners and reviewed in a little
Los Angeles – The NCAA is finally the exclusive owner of the now famous March Madness trademark. March Madness refers to the annual college basketball tournament which ultimately crowns college basketball’s national champion.
The March Madness term was first used in a 1939 magazine article by Henry V. Porter, an executive secretary for the Illinois
San Diego – In a domain name dispute between the Cleveland Browns and an alleged cyber-squatter, the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) ordered that the domain name Browns.com be transferred from an Andrea Denise Dinoia to the Cleveland Browns.
The team filed a complaint in March alleging long standing rights to the CLEVELAND BROWNS and
San Diego – A California federal judge has thrown out a trademark infringement case filed by social networking site Facebook against Teachbook.com because the alleged infringement did not occur in California. Teachbook.com, an online community for school teachers, does not accept users from California and therefore does no business in the state.
Facebook’s complaint accuses
San Diego – Roc Nation, the brainchild of rapper and businessman Jay Z, is being sued for trademark infringement by Volcom for use of a similar diamond-shaped logo. In addition to monetary damages, Volcom is requesting an injunction to stop the sale of any Roc Nation products bearing the diamond logo, that Roc Nation destroy any products with
Los Angeles – Just one day before the reveal of its new Xoom tablet, Motorola was served by Xoom Corporation in a trademark infringement lawsuit. In addition to the alleged trademark infringement, the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, also accuses Motorola of false designation of origin, unfair competition
Los Angeles – Fashion apparel retailer J.Crew is being sued by Tony Duquette, Inc. for trademark infringement. The clothing chain allegedly has taken the internationally acclaimed designer’s proprietary leopard print design and moniker to brand its line of cardigans as the “Duquette Factory Leopard Print” sweater.
The lawsuit accuses J.Crew of willful misconduct because
San Diego – In an ongoing battle over what Apple is alleging to be blatant infringement of its intellectual property, it recently filed a patent and trademark infringement lawsuit against Samsung. The infringing products up for debate are Samsung’s Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets, which are said to infringe on Apple’s line of iPhones and iPads.
Apple’s