Trademark News for 29-Nov-2005
- 'Pfizer Says PTO to Back Lipitor Patent (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Drug maker Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday that the Patent and trademark Office will back the validity of a patent that protects its best-selling cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor well into the next decade.
'Vodafone to sue Russian company for brand violation (Cellular-News.com)
MOSCOW, Nov 29 (Prime-Tass) -- The U.K.'s telecommunication company Vodafone Group plans to start court proceedings against Russia's Vodafone Telecom to regain the right to use its trademark in Russia, Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday quoting Vodafone Group's Spokesman Bobby Leach.
'November 29: Opportunities to work together (Rome Sentinel)
Aprice tag as large as Rome is proposing for a new payroll system °[trademark] some $400,000 °[trademark] certainly ought to give one pause to ask, °[infinity]Isn°Øt there a better way?°±
'Bits and bytes (Northwest Indiana Times Business)
NEW YORK | Less than a week after launching, a media Web site that combines new and traditional journalism is changing its name to avoid a trademark battle with an existing public radio show.
'Apex Healthcare buys Grafton Pharmasia, Agnesia trademark (The Edge Daily)
Apex Healthcare Bhd (AHB) is expanding its regional distribution network with the proposed acquisition of Singapore-based Grafton Pharmasia Pte Ltd (GPPL) and the Agnesia trademark, in a related party transaction.
'Starbucks wins right to use its own trademark in Russia (Corvallis Gazette Times)
MOSCOW ? Starbucks Corp. has regained the right to use its brand on coffee houses in Russia after a protracted legal battle with a trademark squatter who was asking $600,000 for the logo, Russia?s intellectual property agency said Thursday.
'Protection via copyrights, trademarks (The Indianapolis Star)
Question: What does a trademark protect? Is it the same as a copyright? Answer: The Indiana Trademark Act protects words, phrases, symbols or designs used to distinguish the source of goods or products, said AJ Feeney-Ruiz, spokesman for Secretary of State Todd Rokita.
'Quirky scripts trademark of ?My Name is Earl' (Cumberland Times-News)
CUMBERLAND - You won't find a roundtable of Ivy League graduates pitching ideas to writer Greg Garcia on his new NBC sitcom. The ?My Name is Earl? creator and executive producer is looking for a little ?less-educated writing.?
'Tyra Banks gives up modeling for empire building (The Buffalo News)
HOLLYWOOD - When Tyra Banks sashayed down the Victoria's Secret catwalk in trademark Angel wings for the last time a couple weeks ago, she traded in her image as a glamorous supermodel in favor of her new calling: a down-home, just-one-of-the-girls media star.
'(AFX UK Focus) 2005-11-29 17:54 GMT: Pfizer: U.S. to cofirm validity of Lipitor ingredient patent (Interactive Investor)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) -- Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday the U.S. Patent and trademark Office has announced it will confirm the validity of Pfizer's U.S. patent covering the crystalline form of atorvastatin calcium used as the active ingredient in Lipitor.
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