Trademark News for 10-Sep-2005

    'Google Geico Settle on Trademark Search Gripe
    FREE Webinar - Multiple Channels Multiple Challenges: A Database Update for Financial Services Marketers Natural (Organic) Search Engine Optimization Webinar A long-running legal dispute over Google's ability to sell sponsored listings that use trademarked terms has ended with an out-of-court settlement with auto insurer Geico. Geico the country's fourth largest provider of consumer auto insurance simply announced in a terse press release Thursday that its trademark infringement lawsuit against Google had been "resolved to the ...

    'EU Court Upholds DaimlerChrysler PICARO Trademark Claim
    LUXEMBOURG -(Dow Jones)- A top adviser recommended Thursday that the European Court uphold (DCX) PICARO trademark despite an objection by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso's heirs. (MORE TO FOLLOW) Dow Jones Newswires Picasso's heirs claimed PICARO and Picasso were too close in phonetic and visual similarity.

    'Burns acts to prohibit Last Best Place' trademarks
    By Robert Struckman - Missoulian - 09/09/05 MISSOULA "The Last Best Place'' trademark applications by Las Vegas businessman David E. Lipson may have come to an end.

    'Burns tries to block claims to 'Last Best'
    On Thursday U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns R-Mont. may have closed a door on the controversial applications which would have given Lipson exclusive commercial use of a popular phrase that has come to be synonymous with Montana. Burns inserted language into the Senate version of the Commerce Justice and Science Appropriations Bill that would forbid any federal dollars to be used to trademark the phrase.

    'Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties Names Commercial Investment Broker
    Raleigh NC September 9 2005 Billie Redmond President of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties has announced that Jim Harris has joined the firm as a Commercial Investment Broker. In this position Harris will specialize in the redevelopment and brokerage of properties in and around downtown Raleigh.

    'Burns defends 'Last Best Place' bill language to stymie trademark of phrase
    MISSOULA - "The Last Best Place" trademark applications by Las Vegas businessman David E. Lipson may have come to an end.

    'Report tracks winning words
    PHILADELPHIA - In case you hadn't heard carb is out over and done for and zero is in - or at least it was last year. But don't just take our word for it.

    'IFP suggests CIIs 'financial planner' label raises trademark issues
    The Institute of Financial Planning suggests the new Chartered Financial Planner title could present a legal conflict against the international Certified Financial Planner standard. In a statement issued this afternoon concerning the Privy Councils endorsement of Chartered Financial Planner status the reveals it believes use of the title will not only be confusing to consumers against the CFP mark but potentially raises trademark issues which it says will be unhelpful for everybody involved.

    'Google Settles Rest of Geico Suit
    Google settles final piece of Geico trademark case Google Inc. has settled the last part of a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader's advertising network illegally exploited insurer Geico Inc.'s brand avoiding a trial on an issue that threatened to bog down one of the Internet's biggest moneymaking machines.


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