Trademark News for 19-Aug-2006
- 'Rum war heats up over Havana Club trademark (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The well-dressed crowd swayed to tropical jazz and the Cuba-chic mood was tinged with a touch of nostalgia as exiles sipped Havana Club, a famed rum now at the center of a bitter trademark dispute.
'Rum war heats up over Havana Club trademark (TODAYonline)
A bottle of Havana Club rum is displayed outside a local jazz club in Miami Beach, Florida. Havana Club, which had been absent from US markets for decades because of a trade embargo on communist-run Cuba, is now making a comeback as a Puerto Rican rum under Bacardi.
'Lawyers Weigh In on Apple Pod Fight (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)
Another company has reported receiving a letter from Apple claiming that its use of the word "Pod" infringes on Apple's trademark.
'Magma stock up on Synopsys patent ruling (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Magma Design Automation Inc. jumped more than 10 percent on Friday after it said that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected the claims of the patent it is suing Synopsys Inc. over.
'Free (Washington Post)
It's as if it were conceived in our own dreams: " Shoes: Innovations at Your Feet ," at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Museum, offers pair after pair as examples of technological brilliance, in display cases, like art.
'VirtualDub Author Stymied by Trademark Troll (Slashdot)
trifish writes "The author of VirtualDub wrote on his blog that 'someone has registered "VirtualDub" as a "word mark" in Germany as of June 6, 2006 and is now sending out notices to people in that country demanding money for so much as mentioning the program and linking to the SourceForge download from their website.' Well, I confess that only now I fully understand why Linux, Mozilla, TrueCrypt,
'Lawyers Weigh In On Apple Pod Fight (InformationWeek)
Legal experts debate whether Apple's aggressive legal approach to protecting its trademark will help it or hurt it.
'Maxim Magazine sues The Maxxim Men's Club for trademark infringement (BizJournals)
New York-based Dennis Publishing Inc., publisher of Maxim Magazine, is suing The Maxxim Men's Club and Steakhouse in Tampa for trademark infringement, trademark dilution and unfair competition.
'U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Rejects Claims in Synopsys Patent, Magma Announces (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Aug. 17, 2006--The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today rejected all the claims in Synopsys Inc.'s patent number 6,378,114 , calling into question the validity of the patent, Magma® Design Automation Inc. said in a statement today.
'Man charged after Bangor find (u.tv)
A man has been charged with trademark and copyright offences following the recovery of £30,000 worth of alleged counterfeit goods in Bangor, County Down.
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