Trademark News for 30-May-2009
- 'IGDA Board Member Langdell, IGF Mobile Nominee Edge, And A Sorry Trademark Tale (Gamasutra)
[In this analysis piece, Gamasutra publisher Simon Carless looks at the trademark infringement case against Mobigame's Edge to discover why Soul Edge never made it to the West under that name and the litigious habits of IGDA board member Tim Langdell.] So, browsing our sister iPhone game site FingerGaming.com just now, I was surprised to learn about 'Edge Pulled Over Alleged trademark ...
'Ubisoft snap up Killing Day trademark (Ferrago)
Shelved shooter resurrected Long mooted FPS 'Killing Day' was first announced way back at E3 in 2005 as part of Sony's big press conference that year. Reportedly canned in 2006, Ubisoft have now acquired the trademark for the name, which means we could yet see the game in the near future. Talk about an unexpected comeback... You can see more details here . Thanks to once more to VG247 for this.
'TOP TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS RECOGNIZED IN THE CSC TRADEMARK INSIDER ANNUAL REPORT (dBusinessNews.com)
Report also notes that while trademark filings in 2008 fell for the first time in four years as a result of the economic downturn, brand owners still filed for the second highest number of trademarks in over a decade.
'City seeks to trademark poet's name (The Japan Times)
The government of Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, has filed to register the name of local son and poet Chuya Nakahara as a trademark for snacks, stationery, beer, sake and Nakahara-related events, a city official said Thursday. The municipality, which runs a museum dedicated to the famous poet, filed the application with the Japan Patent Office in February to forestall infringement by other ...
'Trademark infringement a growing problem for marketers (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Bogus logos create trademark issues
'HHMI's Plan to Enforce HMMer Trademark Sparks Debate in Bioinformatics Community (GenomeWeb News)
A recent decision by the copyright holder of the widely used HMMER software to enforce its trademark has prompted some discussion in the bioinformatics community about forking the software and its commercial use.
'Osbourne sues Iommi over Black Sabbath trademark (world entertainment news via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Ozzy Osbourne is suing his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi in a dispute over ownership of the group's name.
'Gameloft Files Trademark Suit Against New York?s ?Naked Cowboy? (Bloomberg)
May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Gameloft , Europe?s biggest maker of games for mobile phones, sued Robert Burck, the New York street performer known as the ?Naked Cowboy,? to halt claims that its New York Nights game infringes Burck?s trademark.
'Facebook quietly settles trademark dispute (San Jose Mercury News)
A dispute over Facebook's trademark that harkens to a rivalry between Harvard schoolmates Mark Zuckerberg and Aaron Greenspan has been quietly resolved ? just one business day before Facebook trumpeted its $200 million investment from a Russian firm that valued all of Facebook at $10 billion.
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