Hot Springs National Park logo challenged The Interior Department is moving to block a city tourism board from attaining a trademark for the “Hot Springs National Park” logo, a symbol that is used throughout the resort town and in promotional advertising. The logo does not delineate between the national park itself and the city, and [...]
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On December 3, 2007, Fark.com (NSFW) filed an application to trademark “Not Safe For Work,” pertaining to the following: (1) “Entertainment Services namely providing a website featuring photographic, audio, video and prose presentations featuring comedic captions regarding current events and online discussions and/or reviews of web materials of an adult nature” (2) “Entertainment services, namely, providing [...]
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Coulson Oil Company Inc v. Deweese Enterprises Inc; No. 4:2007cv01102; Filed: November 9, 2007; Court: Arkansas Eastern District Court Here is a Trademark Infringement lawsuit involving gas stations run [...]
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Last week, the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida unsealed a lawsuit that Dell filed in October. See story here: Dell Takes Cybersquatters to Court. The cybersquatting/typosquatting lawsuit is unique in that they are going after several registrars as being “responsible for registering and profiting off of nearly 1,100 domains that were “confusingly similar” to Dell’s [...]
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The band the Red Hot Chili Peppers have sued Showtime Networks for their use of the word “Californication” as the title of one of their shows. It was also the name of RHCP’s 1999 album and song. Claims are being made under federal trademark law and state unfair competition law. There are a number of [...]
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Lindsey Management Company Inc v. Links at Northcreek LLC et al; No. 4:2007cv01076; Filed: November 1, 2007; Court: Arkansas Eastern District CourtThis one looks like fun, but for reasons [...]
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Monday, the 8th Cir. affirmed U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler’s ruling last year in C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, LP. At issue was a purely contractual issue, which we don’t care about here (CBC had a contract with MLB to use players names and stats. When it ended [...]
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This story at the Seattle Trademark Lawyer points out something that I see all the time: christian organizations ripping off logos and look and feel to push their agenda by trying to look hip (today I got a flier ripping off Facebook.com’s look and feel for a college christian ministry). The above story is about Starbucks [...]
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Lance asserts ownership of the color yellow, in combination with any word ending in “strong.” Lance Armstrong’s Foundation has sold over 70 mil. of those yellow LiveStrong wristbands for $1 each. And, they are trademarked. No surprise then that they had a problem with the Animal Charity Collar Group, Inc. for their yellow dog collars with either [...]
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The U.S. District Courts for the Eastern or Western District of Arkansas was chosen as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Thirty Eight Street Inc et al v. Bajrang LLC, No. 07-920 (4:2007cv00920) (E.D. Ark., filed Oct. 2, 2007) Thirty Eight Street brought suit against Bajrang for trademark infringement. Thirty [...]
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