Trademark News for 07-Apr-2009
- 'China's annual trademark applications rank first in world for seventh consecutive year (People's Daily)
In 2008, nearly 700,000 trademark applications were submitted in China, marking the seventh consecutive year that the country has ranked first in the world for number of applications. This is according to information from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Inter-Regional High-Level Forum on Intellectual Property recently held in Beijing. The State Administration for Industry & ...
'Local publisher ordered to pay Mattel $3.6 million in trademark case (The Greenville News)
A federal judge has ordered a Greenville-based children's literature publisher to pay Mattel Inc. $3.6 million and to destroy some merchandise after the local firm lost a trademark battle.
'Google should defend trademark suit: appeals court (CIOL)
NEW YORK, USA: Google Inc should defend a trademark lawsuit by Rescuecom Corp over advertisements linked to keyword searches, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
'SOAProjects Sues Murdock Martell for Unfair Competition and Trademark Infringement (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
SOAProjects, Inc. today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Murdock Martell, Inc. seeking injunctive relief for unfair competition, trademark infringement, unfair business practices, and for making false or materially misleading representations in a competitive context not just about SOAProjects but several ...
'2nd Circuit: Google Must Face Trademark Suit Involving Keyword Ads (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance)
In a long-awaited opinion, the 2nd Circuit ruled Friday that Google must face a trademark infringement lawsuit for selling keywords that trigger ads. The three-judge panel reversed a lower court's dismissal of a case in which computer-repair company Rescuecom had claimed that users could be confused by links to competitors' ads that appear alongside Google search results for the company's ...
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