Trademark News for 18-Mar-2009
- '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.
'Cadila moves SC against Dabur, Baidyanath on trademark (Business Standard India)
Pharma major Cadila Healthcare has moved the Supreme Court seeking to restrain Dabur India and Shree Baidyanath Ayurved from using its trademark 'Sugar free', used for artificial sweeteners.
'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 Grants Reissue Patent Relating to Lipitor (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Pfizer Inc announced today that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has granted reissue patent RE40667, relating to Lipitor. The company had applied for the reissue patent in January 2007, in order to correct a technical defect in the '995 enantiomer patent for atorvastatin calcium, the salt form of atorvastatin sold as Lipitor.
'Apple looks to trademark Genius logo for iTunes (MacNN)
Apple has applied to extend the coverage of its Genius logo trademark, filings from the US Patent and Trademark Office show. The trademark was originally sought after in 2007, but only in reference to the Genius Bar found in Apple Stores and other related services. An updated trademark would also cover Genius playlists and sidebars, currently used for video and music in iTunes....
''OBX' not valid trademark (Outer Banks Sentinel)
The US Court of Appeals, Eastern District of North Carolina, has upheld a lower court's ruling that the use of "OBX" is a "geographically descriptive abbreviation that has no secondary meaning and therefore is not a valid trademark."
'Google faces trademark tussle (Channel 4)
Luxury goods retailer Louis Vuitton and internet giant Google have returned to court in the latest round of a trademark tussle which could prevent search engines using protected brand names.
'Google Adds MySQL To Trademark AdWords Keyword Ban List (Search Engine Roundtable)
A DigitalPoint Forums thread has discussion over a new trademarked term that made it into Google's trademark policy list. The word is " MySQL " and is the name of one of the more popular open source database systems. Yesterday, I received an email that one of my demo ads (wasn't live anyway) was disapproved due to trademark violations. I read it, thought to myself, no big deal and trashed the ...
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