Trademark News for 19-May-2009
- 'Google Revises AdWords Trademark Policy To Allow For More Freedom (ISEDB)
Despite facing a number of pending lawsuits over the sale of trademarked keywords through its online advertising platform, last Friday Google announced on its corporate blog that it will allow some ads to display trademarks in their text in order to better target their visitors.
'Google Revises Trademark Policy To Allow Brand Names In More Ads (Forbes)
Google has revised its trademark policy to make it easier for advertisers to include brand names in the text of their ads. Until now, companies could not run ads with a trademarked brand name in the text if they did not own the trademark.
'Google Finds No Data Misuse In Shoemoney Trademark Case (Search Engine Land)
Earlier this month, my Why Hasn?t Google Cleared, Fired Or Suspended Accused AdWords Employee? article asked why Google hadn?t yet publicly commented about accusations that one of their employees may have abused the AdWords system for his own benefit.
'US Patent Office upholds StemCells' patents, company to resume patent infringement case against Neuralstem (PharmaBiz)
StemCells Inc announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has upheld the validity of the remaining two neural stem cell patents which were subjected to re-examination proceedings commenced by Neuralstem Inc. The upheld patents are the subject of two related lawsuits initiated by StemCells against Neuralstem, which allege infringement of a total of six patents.
'Newegg Inc. Sues Kohl's for Trademark Infringement (Marketwire)
Newegg Inc. Seeks a Temporary Injunction Against Kohl's for Infringement of the "Once You Know, You Newegg"(R) Trademark in Kohl's New Marketing Campaign
'The day I met Prabhakaran (rediff.com)
Prabhakaran strode in, wearing his trademark safari suit. Well built, very sure of himself. He put his hands on the table and looked around the hall scanning the entire area slowly. There was pin drop silence. We had been told not to get up but those on stage had risen.
'Newegg Inc. Sues Kohl's for Trademark Infringement (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Newegg Inc., the second-largest online-only retailer in North America, today announced that it has filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against Kohl's Corporation for trademark infringement and unfair competition.
'Appeals court sides with Redskins over trademark (Sports Illustrated)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Washington Redskins won another legal victory Friday in a 17-year fight with a group of American Indians who contend the football team's trademark is racially offensive.
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