On 16 September 2011, President Barack Obama signed into law HR1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act , which has been described as the most important change in US patent legislation since 1952, when the structure of modern patent law was ...more »
Google is buying Motorola Mobility to gain mobile patents and expand its hardware business. Google's Android is also the operating system for smartphones made by companies such as HTC Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. that compete with Apple's iPhone.more »
RIM also claimed that use of the CrackBerry marks would lead to dilution — a diminishment of the distinctive quality of RIM's marks under the Trademark Act. The four applications were published for opposition between July and November 2007.more »
The lawsuit filed late Tuesday in US District Court in New Mexico alleges trademark violations and violations of the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act, which makes it illegal to sell arts or crafts in a way to falsely suggest they're made by American ...more »
The suit alleges the company violated trademarks and the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act. The federal law declares it illegal to sell arts or crafts in a way to falsely suggest they were made by American Indians. The tribe has 86 trademarks on the ...more »
Turning to Research in Motion's oppositions on the issue of dilution, the board first established that the BlackBerry mark was a famous mark protected under federal trademark dilution law. The board then applied factors for likelihood of dilution as ...more »
“It's not really trademark law, it's about whether the trademark was legally transferred or not,” Dan Harris, a Seattle-based lawyer with Harris & Moure who handles cases on intellectual property in China, said before the hearing.more »
The WTR 1000 is the first definitive guide exclusively dedicated to identifying the world's leading trademark legal services providers. Through exhaustive qualitative research, this unique publication identifies the leading trademark law firms and ...more »
By Joe Palazzolo Terror trials: President Barack Obama issued an order Tuesday giving civilian investigators broad power to handle the cases of US terrorism suspects despite a law passed late last year favoring military custody.more »
Inc. (YHOO) asked Facebook Inc. (FB) to license technologies covered by its intellectual property and threatened to take legal action if the companies don't reach an agreement. “We must insist that Facebook either enter into a licensing agreement or we ...more »
29 (Bloomberg) -- Stan Abrams, a law professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, talks about a trademark dispute between Apple Inc. and Proview International Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong-based maker of computer displays.more »
These courier services used trademark of DHL for advertisement/marketing purposes. Such an act is considered to be false, misleading and is capable of harming the business interest of the DHL and amounts to be in violation of Section 10 of the ...more »
Francis insisted Madonna needed to negotiate an immediate licensing agreement for the use of his trademark, or face legal action, and the singer seemed to take heed by changing the name of the song to 'Girl Gone Wild'. However, the soft porn mogul is ...more »
Under West Virginia law, the maximum fine for a safety violation that results in the death of a coal miner is one-tenth of the maximum fine for violating West Virginia University's trademark: Better yet — why should someone face more serious ...more »
By Grant Gross IDG News Service - Digital rights group Public Knowledge has launched a campaign to reform US copyright laws and make them more friendly to the Internet, in the eyes of the group. Public Knowledge's Internet Blueprint campaign, ...more »
Photo / AP Taking the 's': Pop matriarch Madonna has changed the title of her new single after being threatened with legal action, it has been claimed. Adult video founder Joe Francis, who created the infamous Girls Gone Wild franchise, ...more »
