Trademark News for 17-Mar-2009
- 'Group faces hearing on trademark (The Red and Black)
The group that sold T-shirts with a picture resembling Hairy Dawg smoking a joint under the Arch will face a formal hearing with the University. Georgia NORML, a student organization that advocates the reform of marijuana laws, has been accused of breaching copyright violation laws.
'Eastday-China handles 56,634 trademark infringement cases in 2008 (Eastday.com)
China investigated 56,634 trademark infringement cases in 2008, up 12.55 percent from the previous year.
'KILPATRICK STOCKTON IS ONLY FIRM TO HAVE THREE OF THE TOP TWENTY TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS NATIONWIDE (dBusinessNews.com)
ATLANTA ? Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that in the current issue of World Trademark Review, three of the firm?s attorneys are among only 20 attorneys named ?Trademark experts? experts? -- the leading trademark professionals in the United States.
'China says trademark cases up 12.6 pct in 2008 (TODAYonline)
File photo shows street vendors selling counterfeit watches and fake luxury brand wallets outside a department store in Shanghai. China investigated more than 56,000 trademark infringement cases in 2008, up 12.6 percent from the previous year, the government said.
'Gucci loses trademark dispute in Sweden (Moldova.org)
The Swedish Court of Patent Appeals said Gucci's famous monogram, at least in Sweden, already had a registered owner.The court ruled that a company in Gothenburg, Sweden, Vastra Frolunda, already had claim to the double-G logo that is known the world over as a symbol of the fashion company.Gucci, a widely pirated brand, will have to get by without trademark protection in Sweden, Tidningarnas ...
'Google, LVMH Spar Over Keyword Trademark Rights at Top EU Court (Bloomberg)
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Louis Vuitton told the European Union?s highest court that Google Inc. doesn?t have the right to sell trademark-protected names to advertisers that trigger ?sponsored links? when the name is used in an Internet search.
'U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Issues Preliminary Ruling Rejecting All Sixteen Claims of Fourth Patent Asserted ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Aruba Networks, Inc., a global leader in wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued a preliminary re-examination report rejecting all claims of Patent No. 7,173,923, one of four patents asserted against Aruba Networks by Motorola in 2007.
'China handles 56,634 trademark infringement cases in 2008 (People's Daily)
China investigated 56,634 trademark infringement cases in 2008, up 12.55 percent from the previous year. Statistics released by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) on Sunday revealed that these include 45,492 domestic cases and 11,142 foreign-related ones, up 13.74 percent and 7.97 percent, respectively. Fines from the cases reached 467 million yuan (68.3 million U.S. ...
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