Trademark News for 01-Aug-2008
- 'Organizer holds ?Miss Legislative Reform? pageant (The Daily American)
HARRISBURG, Pa. ? Political reform activist Gene Stilp brought his trademark pink pig and 11 contestants to the State Capitol rotunda on Monday for a beauty contest of sorts.
'Scrabble knockoff returns to Facebook with tweaks that could skirt copyright, trademark laws (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - A popular Scrabble knockoff is back on Facebook. It comes with changes that could help it skirt copyright and trademark laws. On Tuesday, the creators of Scrabulous voluntarily removed their version of the word game from Facebook, the online hangout.
'Review: Don't unwrap new 'Mummy' (CNN.com)
Brendan Fraser, with his boyish face and trademark hair flop, hasn't exactly entered the Harrison Ford grumpy-old-man zone, so it's discombobulating to learn that in "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," Fraser's eager daredevil archaeologist has been given an eager daredevil archaeologist son, played by Luke Ford (no relation).
'Inventors make U.S. patent office the world's most popular recorder / Application backlog is a major problem - too few ... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The United States is again the favored destination to patent inventions after 43 years in which Japan and the now-defunct Soviet Union held the lead, a U.N. report said Thursday. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received nearly a quarter of the 1.76...
'Silence Therapeutics Receives Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office for its Core RNAi Patent (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Silence Therapeutics plc , a leading European RNAi focused biotechnology company, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has allowed the Company's core RNAi patent application.
'Scottsdale police complete switch to new uniforms (East Valley Tribune)
After wearing ?The West?s Most Western Town?s? trademark silver tan uniforms for more than half a century, the Scottsdale Police Department can officially be called the men and women in blue.
'Video: U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation Join Ad Council to Inspire ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation joined The Advertising Council today to launch a series of national public service advertisements designed to inspire a new generation of children in innovation.
'Scrabulous is back on Facebook -- as Wordscraper (USA Today)
A popular Scrabble knockoff is back on Facebook. It comes with changes that could help it skirt copyright and trademark laws.
'Get a head start on Kenny cover (The Florida Times-Union)
The concept: What's really under that trademark hat that Chesney's never seen without? (Really, have you ever seen the top of his head?)
'Why Facebook left 'Scrabulous' alone (CNET)
Though it could've faced legal troubles for not pulling a developer-created game with obvious trademark infringements, leaving Scrabulous alive as long as possible was in Facebook's best interest for a number of reasons.
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