Trademark News for 18-Dec-2005
- 'Sprucing up gift cards (San Jose Mercury News)
No more plain, plastic gift cards. Push a button on Target's new card and its trademark pooch Spot barks ``Jingle Bells.'' Consumers at Gap and Wal-Mart personalize them by inserting family photos.
'PROUD MARY (New York Post)
-- Fans of Mary J. Blige were mystified when, in 1999, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul decided to shed her trademark sunglasses and reveal her famously-never-discussed scar under her left eye on the refreshingly natural cover shot of her "Mary" album.
'Trademark issues grow more common Montana companies find legal woes as they spread beyond state's borders (Missoulian)
It's been about five years since the copyright and trademark infringement case between a Missoula company and Timex Corp. was first filed.
'TECHNICAL (New York Post)
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'New Orleans' historic streetcars return (USA Today)
New Orleans on Sunday resumed its streetcar service, which had been out of commission since Hurricane Katrina wiped out the utility poles and metal tracks used to propel the city's trademark mode of transportation.
'Hope springs eternal for Gen Xers (San Jose Mercury News)
If the Bay Area's trademark optimism has taken a deadly hit since 2000, someone better tell the Generation X workers who are next in line to invent the next big thing.
'New Orleans' Historic Streetcars Return (AP via Yahoo! News)
The clackety-clack is officially back. New Orleans on Sunday resumed its streetcar service, which had been out of commission since Hurricane Katrina wiped out the utility poles and metal tracks used to propel the city's trademark mode of transportation.
'Patent Office to Speed Review of BlackBerry (Los Angeles Times)
The U.S. Patent and trademark Office said it would try to complete with "special dispatch" a review of patents that could result in the shutdown of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry e-mail device in the U.S.
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