Trademark News for 15-Apr-2007

    'Store owner faces trademark charges (Rocky Mount Telegram)
    Authorities on Friday charged the owner of a Rocky Mount clothing store with trademark violations after a raid yielded more than $31,000 worth of counterfeit clothes on Thursday.

    'Utah vs. Google: Trademark Debates Heat Up (WebProNews)
    The Utah State Legislature has passed a bill that would make it illegal to purchase keywords relating to a competitor?s product in order to show up alongside them in search results. The trademark Protection Act has come under much public scrutiny, most notably by Google. The trademark Protection Act made its way quietly through the Utah legislature, not receiving so much as a whimper of ...

    'Edwards looks to end Cup victory drought (AP via Yahoo! News)
    Carl Edwards has been waiting a long time to do another Sunday backflip. While Edwards is dominating the Busch Series this year, with a huge points lead and two straight victories, he hasn't been able to do his trademark celebration after a Nextel Cup race since November 2005 in Texas.

    'Utah plans to create trademark registry (AP via Yahoo! News)
    Over Google Inc.'s objections, Utah plans to set up a trademark registry to prevent rival advertisers from capturing the attention of people who type a search query on another company or its products.

    'Contact Us (News Of The World)
    'The News of the World' is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. © News Group Newspapers Ltd, 2007.

    'WBC #12 Kimura keeps belt! (Fightnews.com)
    WBC#12/WBA#15 Norio Kimura (31-5-2, 15 KOs), 140, kept his Japanese super-light belt for the ninth time as he displayed his trademark tricky southpaw style in dropping mandatory challenger Seishu Iida (15-2-2, 7 KOs), 140, three times, each once in the first three rounds, and halted him because of the loser's bad lacerations caused by the champ's onslaught at 0:40 of the fourth session on ...

    'Reed Elsevier Loses Bid to Trademark `Lawyers.com' in the U.S. (Bloomberg.com)
    April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Reed Elsevier Plc, owner of the LexisNexis databases, lost a U.S. appeals court bid to trademark the phrase ``lawyers.com'' for its online legal information service.

    'Danone Gives Wahaha A Hard Trademark Lesson (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance)
    Siwei Zhong submits:In a story I wrote in Feb about how to profit from China's one-child Policy, I recommended Groupe Danone , a French food company with multiple joint ventures set up in China selling consumer products from fruit juice, dairy products to bottled water.

    'Edward R. "Ted" Coan (The News-Herald)
    Edward R. Coan, 85, died April 9, 2007, as a result of a recent auto accident in Bonita Springs, Fla. Ted was instantly recognizable with his trademark "flat-top" haircut that he had worn for his entire adult life.



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