Showing posts with label trademark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trademark. Show all posts
Friday, January 16, 2015

National Parks Battle Over Trademark Rights to Souvenirs and T-Shirts

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Yosemite Valley, 2013 Tuxyso / Wikimedia Commons / CC According to USA Today , the National Park Service has become embroiled in a bitt...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

John Wayne's Heirs Sue Duke University Over Trademark Rights to Alcohol

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John Wayne (pictured left) was born Marion Robert Morrison in 1907.   As a boy, the eventual actor owned a dog named "Duke."  Ev...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Rock Showdown: Queensrÿche Faces Trial Over Trademark Ownership

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Queensrÿche with Original Lead Singer Geoff Tate It appears that hard rock and 1980's "hair bands" are a perennially fert...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Starbucks Loses Big Against CHARBUCKS in the Court of Appeals

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Starbucks lost a significant trademark appeal before a panel of three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a cas...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

The Selfie Trademark: Struggling to Own the New Slang

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In the modern world of interactive social media, new words are invented, used and discarded at lightning speed. Indeed, the lexicon o...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Van Halen Sues Drummer's Ex-Wife for Commercializing Her Married Name

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Van Halen was formed in California in 1972, and named after lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen and his brother, drummer Alex Van ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Pinterest Sues Travel Planning Startup PinTrips

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Social media service  Pinterest  has filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit in California against travel startup PinTrip...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Can "ObamaCare" Be Legally Trademarked?

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President Obama Signs "ObamaCare" Into Law in 2010 In the last several months, numerous formal trademark applications have bee...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

When Does Copyright Law Cease Protecting a Fictional Character? (Part III)

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Movie Poster for Van Helsing The tagline for the 2004 movie Van Helsing was "Adventure Lives Forever." From an int...