Trademark News for 01-Dec-2005
- 'FRANCE'S HENNESSY COGNAC WINS TRADEMARK LAWSUIT IN CHINA (The Tocqueville Connection)
SHANGHAI, Nov 30 (AFP) - Two Chinese drink companies have been ordered to pay a 300,000-yuan (37,000-dollar) fine and apologise to French cognac maker Moet Hennessy for trademark violations, state press said Wednesday.
'United States Patent and Trademark Office Selects Raxco Software's PerfectDisk (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Raxco Software, the leader in disk defragmentation software, today announced that the United States Patent and trademark Office has purchased its PerfectDisk® defragmentation technology for deployment on 10,500 workstations in 2006.
'Brazil Opens Carmen Miranda Exhibit (AP via Yahoo! News)
Carmen Miranda is back and fighting to get her slice of the icon pie in her native Brazil, where memories have faded of the late bombshell known for her trademark fruit headdress.
'Chery Facing New Dispute Over Minicar (AP via Yahoo! News)
Chinese automaker Chery Automobile Co., having recently settled a piracy dispute with General Motors Corp., is facing another trademark battle ? this time from a Chinese instant messaging company, reports said Thursday.
'CHINA: Chery faces another trademark battle (just-auto)
Article Summary: Having recently settled a piracy dispute with General Motors, Chery Automobile now is facing another trademark battle - this time from a Chinese instant messaging company, local reports said on Thursday.
'Steve Jobs to keynote Macworld Expo (Macworld.com via Yahoo! News)
Long-time Expo goers won?t be surprised to hear it, but on Thursday IDG World Expo confirmed that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will headline the 2006 Macworld Conference & Expo with his trademark keynote address.
'Asset Purchase Includes Domain Name, Hosting Business, Accredited Registrar and Trademark Rights (Web Host Directory)
Interland, a leading provider of websites and online services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase various assets from Web Internet, LLC (Web.com) and Web Service Company Inc. including the domain name Web.com, its trademark rights and associated intangible assets.
'Spam Protects Trademark (KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul)
DETROIT - SPAM sees nothing funny in a radio station's scam CD cover. Hormel, the maker of the canned lunch meat, is accusing a Detroit radio station WKQI-FM of trademark infringement. The station wants to avoid a suit, so interns have been putting BANNED stickers over the SPAM cans.
'Clever Thinking as City Headhunter Gains Registered Trademark Brand (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The UK Patent Office has granted a Registered Trademark for the English word 'ingeniously' to Ingeniously Limited, a boutique City headhunter.
'Starbucks wins right to use its own trademark in Russia (Corvallis Gazette Times)
MOSCOW ? Starbucks Corp. has regained the right to use its brand on coffee houses in Russia after a protracted legal battle with a trademark squatter who was asking $600,000 for the logo, Russia?s intellectual property agency said Thursday.
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