Trademark News for 31-May-2009
- 'Trademark infringement a growing problem for marketers (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Bogus logos create trademark issues
'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 ...
'Facebook Quietly Settles Trademark Dispute (HispanicBusiness.com)
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.
'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.
'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.
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