Trademark News for 19-May-2008
- 'Judge Sides With Red Cross Over Trademark (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Johnson & Johnson lost the second round in its trademark dispute against the disaster relief agency when a federal judge in Manhattan threw out most of the case.
'Recent Original Stories (New Mobile Computing)
Cisco has sued Apple over the use of the 'iPhone' brand . "Cisco today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from infringing upon and deliberately copying and using Cisco's registered iPhone trademark."
'New scheme to combat Google trademark bids (Mad.co.uk)
Search marketing agency Greenlight is launching a scheme which it claims will protect brands against Google's controversial strategy of allowing advertisers to bid on trademarked keywords.
'Who owns Sensex? BSE or Pune analyst? (rediff.com)
Challenging the Bombay Stock Exchange, which has applied to register Sensex as its trademark, Deepak Mohoni, a stock market analyst in Pune, has filed his own plea with the Trademark registry claiming that the word had been coined by him to denote the BSE sensitive index in his newspaper columns before BSE started using it.
'Despite ad blitz, airport sees few Illinois travelers (BizJournals)
For years, General Mitchell International Airport has touted itself in advertisements as Chicago's "third airport" and even went as far as to apply for a federal trademark for the term.
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