Artists are open to all sorts of renown (commercial success, succès de scandale, their art and faces in books and magazines, their names known far and wide), but Rick Rush and Daniel Moore may be as famous in the annals of law as in the field of sports...more »
The university filed suit in 2005 alleging that Moore violated trademark law in painting scenes from football games by showing Crimson Tide players in their crimson and white uniforms without permission. The suit also contends that Moore reissued ...more »
Although NAF has its notorious Supplemental Rule 7, NAF panels have held that SR 7 is controlled by Policy Paragraph 12 (“[T]he controlling provision is Paragraph 12 of ICANN's Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Rules”), ...more »
For small companies, the cost of fighting a trademark battle can go beyond dollars and cents. "The big companies will do this to rough up their competitors," said Barton Beebe, a professor at the New York University Law School who specializes in ...more »
Cupertino-based Apple defended its right to use the trademark in China and said Proview had no ability to produce or sell its own device under the same name. "Proview has no product, no markets, no customers and no suppliers. It has nothing," Hu Jinnan ...more »
"The agreement to sell the trademark is not valid under Chinese law." Proview is suing to have Apple stop selling the iPad in China under that name. It has also sought to have commercial authorities in many cities order sales to stop.more »
The Directive also permits EU member states to draw up national laws giving extra protection to trade mark owners who possess a reputation in that country if others' use of similar or identical signs for similar or identical purposes "without due cause ...more »
Trademark Microsoft's Russian Trademark Dispute Goes to Court April 11. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s trademark-infringement suit related to its “Windows” trademark is to be heard April 11 in Moscow Commercial Court, the Russian Legal Information Agency ...more »
"If Jeremy comes in with a big law firm they won't be able to hang with him," Krugman said. Toronto lawyer Javad Heydary said even Lin himself "would have to hire lawyers to assert a legal claim to the Linsanity trademark", even though the word has ...more »
So the Burroughs heirs included only two copyright infringement claims in last week's suit, both based on English law. Instead, the suit is based on alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition on several of ERB's trademarks.more »
Bruehs specializes in patent prosecution covering technologies related to chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical and cosmetic products, and nanotechnology. Cummings, meanwhile, focuses on patent prosecution and litigation in the realms of ...more »
For example, Apple, For small companies, the cost of fighting a trademark battle can go beyond dollars and cents. “The big companies will do this to rough up their competitors,” said Barton Beebe, a professor at the New York University Law School who ...more »
Kenneth Port, a trademark and intellectual property professor at the William Mitchell School of Law in St. Paul, said he was not surprised by the announcement. "Only 1 1/2 percent of these cases reach trial," Port said in an interview Tuesday.more »
But Proview has a strong case under Chinese trademark law. Chinese officials face a choice in Apple's dispute with a local company over the iPad trademark -- side with a struggling entity that a court says owns the name or with a global brand that has ...more »
When the courts uniformly held that trademark law could not be used to prevent arbitrage where the product was the very same genuine good to which the trademark owner had affixed its trademark, creative lawyers turned to the Copyright Act. The first ...more »
By Lee Chyen Yee and Huang Yuntao HONG KONG, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's legal fight over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the ...more »
Excluding the campaign, analysts said, Pandora's forecast points to strong consumer interest in the company's trademark charm bracelets. The company expects underlying 2012 sales growth in the mid single-digits percentage range, boosted by continued ...more »
