Trademark News for 01-Apr-2009
- 'Bacardi wins rum rumble; Cuba's trademark suit tossed (Miami Herald)
The more than decade-long battle between Bacardi and Pernod Ricard over the U.S. rights to the Havana Club trademark on Monday inched closer to an end.
'Sony Registers 'PS Cloud' Trademark, Points To Internet-Based Products [Sony] (Gizmodo)
Sony Japan just filed a trademark for "PS Cloud", which, along with some other US PTO filings, point to internet-based "entertainment services" like accessing games online. Kotaku guesses that it...
'Judge kills Cuban lawsuit on Havana Club trademark (AP via Yahoo! News)
A federal judge dismissed a Cuban lawsuit Monday over the termination of U.S. trademark rights for its Havana Club rum, a victory for Bacardi's effort to take over the brand name as its own in the United States.
'Parts dealer sues Ford over trademark slogan (Detroit Free Press)
UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A western Pennsylvania auto parts dealer says Ford Motor Co. is wrongly using the slogan "We Speak Car," which the local business says it has been using for nearly six years.
'Trademark applications fall 30pc (Daily Telegraph)
Trademark applications have fallen 30pc from their peak indicating the decline in business activity and new product launches.
'Annual trademark registration applications in China rank first in world (People's Daily)
The number of applications for trademark registration in China in 2008 reached nearly 700,000, ranking China as first in the world for seven years in a row said Fu Shuangjian. He is the Vice Minister of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), and he made those comments during the "World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Inter-Regional High-Level Forum on Intellectual ...
'Pa. parts dealer sues Ford over trademark slogan (WTOL 11 Toledo)
Frank's Auto Supply Inc., of Uniontown, says in its federal lawsuit that it filed for a trademark on the phrase on Thursday, and has used it in advertising since June 2003.
'United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Rules in Smith & Nephew's Favor and Confirms Patent Claims Infringed ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The United States Patent & trademark Office overruled Arthrex's validity challenges to the claims of a medical device patent exclusively licensed to Smith & Nephew by Dr. John O.
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