Trademark News for 05-Dec-2005
- 'Trademark trumps birth name: The system wins in court (Corvallis Gazette Times)
Sales were perking along at Sambuck?s Coffee shop in Astoria for 17 months, until Starbucks Coffee Co. opened a shop in 2002 and promptly ordered the owner to change her shop?s name. ?Sambuck?s? represented a ?confusing? infringement on Starbucks? copyright and logo, their corporate lawyers said.
'Renaissance expands and protects mangosteen brand (Nutraingredients.com)
12/5/2005 - Renaissance Herbs has added a new high-potency mangosteen extract to its XanoMax line and protected the brand with a registered trademark.
'Interland Acquires Web Hosting Company, Web.com (TopHosts.com)
ATLANTA, GA, November 30, 2005 ? Interland (NASDAQ: INLD), 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.
'Intellectual Property (Mondaq)
Intellectual Property in a trade dress is easy to enforce vis-à-vis trademark. Deceptive similarity in a trade dress is more palpable than that in the trademarks.
'US Patent Office rejects remaining NTP vs RIM patent (theRegister via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The US Patent and Trademark Office has rejected another patent owned by Research in Motion sparring partner NTP, effectively rendering invalid all eight ...
'RIM wins patent victory (Personal Computer World)
Research in Motion has won a small but potentially important victory in its patent battle against NTP, a small patent holding company. In a preliminary ruling the US Patent and Trademark Office effectively invalidated a patent that RIM was accused of violating.
'New row tears rag trade (Stuff)
A second pair of leading fashion designers are embroiled in a bitter trademark spat as competition at the top end of New Zealand's lucrative rag trade heats up.
'Sun rises over .eu domains (Computing.co.uk)
The .eu top-level domain is finally due to launch this week with the start of the so-called 'Sunrise' period on 7 December during which trademark holders are given first refusal to snap up their domains.
'Chinese firms ordered to compensate French Hennessy cognac over trademark infringement (People's Daily)
Two Chinese firms have been ordered to pay 300,000 yuan (37,500 US dollars) to the world-renowned French cognac producer Hennessy for trademark infringement, a Shanghai court has said.
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