Trademark News for 16-Sep-2006
- 'Red Bull challenges Redline in trademark dispute (Miami Herald)
VS. It started as a simple trademark-infringement spat, with Red Bull, the Goliath of the energy-drink business, claiming the packaging of competitor Redline is ''confusingly similar'' to Red Bull's.
'Mao's unknown artists create history in image (San Jose Mercury News)
It happens every year, under cover of darkness, in the waning days of September. The giant portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Tiananmen Square -- he of the Mona Lisa gaze, flushed cheeks and trademark gray suit -- is spirited away and replaced by a new Mao. He looks just like the old Mao.
'Judge allows AIG claims in CV Starr trademark case (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A federal judge has allowed American International Group Inc. to pursue a lawsuit accusing a firm run by former chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg of improperly using the "Starr" name to win business.
'LIONS NOTEBOOK: LB Sims socked with $7,500 fine (Detroit Free Press)
The NFL fined Lions rookie linebacker Ernie Sims $7,500 for his hit on sliding Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck. Sims said Friday he would be more careful with sliding quarterbacks in the future but wouldn't lose any of his trademark aggressiveness.
'Apple 'Pod' Trademark Fight Expands To U.K. (InformationWeek)
A British company is the latest to announce it has received a warning from Apple regarding its yet-to-be-released "securipod" wallet.
'NeoMagic(R) Corporation Announces The Issuance of a New Embedded DRAM Patent (SYS-CON Media)
NeoMagic Corporation announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) has issued a patent to the Company that covers a number of important aspects of embedded dynamic random-access-memory (DRAM) technology and on-chip semiconductor memories. Specifically, the USPTO granted NeoMagic United States Patent No. 7,106,619, which covers the use of specific on-chip memory
'Is Mentor maneuvering for Magma merger? (EETimes)
Was Mentor's intervention in requesting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reexamine two Magma patents laying the groundwork for a possible merger of the two companies? At least one EDA analyst thinks its possible.
'Gameworld: Skywalker storms into Lego Star Wars II (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A young Luke Skywalker sizes up a cadre of white-clad storm troopers then with his trademark light saber slashes through one storm trooper after another with the enemy crumbling ... into Lego pieces.
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