Trademark News for 15-Jun-2008

    'O2 loses bubble trademark battle (BBC News)
    Mobile phone firm O2 loses a four-year court battle with Hutchison 3G for using its bubbles trademark in adverts.

    'O2 loses case over trademark adverts (Financial Times)
    O2 has lost a four-year case against the rival mobile operator 3, which used its trademark bubbles imagery in an advertisement comparing the costs of calls.

    'Brothel wins trademark protection in Germany (EARTHtimes.org)
    Koblenz, Germany - A brothel in Germany has won trademark protection, with judges ruling that a madam could not copy the name Club Pearls from an existing house of ill repute, a legal magazine, OLG Report, said Friday. A lower court had rejected a pi...

    'Sheldon Ocker's the write stuff (Akron Beacon Journal)
    Sheldon: Read your story on the exploding bats and wanted to share some info. When I started in a 12-and-under league, our coach taught us to always have the trademark up, so you always hit with the wood grain in a position that it would not break.

    'MEDIA MAGNET (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
    Last month, the Wall Street Journal immortalized Jim Gibbons with one of its trademark ink dot portraits. Unfortunately for Gibbons, the story that went with it was nothing he would want to clip out and add to his scrapbook.

    'NBC's Tim Russert dies at 58 of heart attack (AP via Yahoo! News)
    Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity. Praise poured in from the biggest names in politics, some recalling their own meltdown moments on his hot seat.



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