Trademark News for 20-Sep-2008
- 'EFF Urges Judge to Dismiss Baseless Lawsuit (Electronic Frontier Foundations)
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Citizen, joined by Public Knowledge and Citizen Media Law Project, urged a federal judge in Chicago Friday to dismiss a law firm's baseless trademark claims, which were apparently aimed at quashing speech by an online news site.
'Law Firm Uses Bogus Trademark Claim in Attempt to Silence Online News Site (Kansas City InfoZine)
EFF Urges Judge to Dismiss Baseless Lawsuit
'From wigs to weird, Sarah Palin items surge online (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
From Sarah Palin's trademark Kazuo Kawasaki glasses, to gun-toting action figures and a large pumpkin carved with her face, the newcomer in the U.S. election campaign has sparked a rush of online novelties.
'Konami Trademark "Metal Gear Solid Existence" (Ferrago)
Konami have registered the wording "Metal Gear Solid Existence" leading us to believe there will be a game with this name coming out in the future.
'Major Law Office Cannot Use Trademark Law to Suppress Free Speech on the Web, Public Citizen and EFF Say (Public Citizen)
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? The Chicago office of a national law firm, Jones Day, cannot use trademark law to intimidate an independent Web site and stop it from referring to the firm by name or linking to the firm?s Web site, Public Citizen, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and the Citizen Media Law Project told the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois in a ...
'FNB sues N.Y. bank over ?Metropolitan? trademark (The Sharon Herald)
FNB Corp. has sued a New York bank claiming it has infringed upon FNB?s trademark of the ?Metropolitan National Bank? and ?Metropolitan? marks.
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