24
May/08
"Here I Come To Save The Day"
TUAW: “Company Sues CBS and Apple Over “Mighty Mouse“:
A firm named Man and Machine is suing both Apple and CBS for trademark infringement for using the Mighty Mouse name to describe a computer input device. Man and Machine makes hygenic water- and chemical-resistant keyboards and mice for hospitals and laboratories.
Mighty Mouse theme song here.
- 2(a) False Connection
- abandoment
- Abandonment / Residual Goodwill
- Advertising
- Affirmative Defenses
- Ambush Marketing
- Appellations of Origin
- arbitration
- Artistic Relevance
- Background Use
- Branding
- But Is It Art?
- Channels of trade
- Circuit Court Decisions
- Clickwrap
- Commercial Speech
- Compatibility / Replacement Parts
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- Desing Patent
- Digital Rights Management
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- eBay Merc
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- EULA
- Exceptional Case
- Extraterritorial Application
- False Advertising
- False Endorsement
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- First Amendment
- Forum Non Conveniens
- Franchise
- FRE 408
- Functionality
- General blogging affairs
- Genericide
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- Grey Goods
- Hot News / Misappropriation
- House Mark
- Ideas, Protection of
- in rem
- Inherent Registrability
- Initial Interest Confusion
- Insurance
- International
- Irony
- irreparable harm – eBay
- Legislation
- Libel/Defamation
- Likelihood of Confusion
- Linking
- Lionel Hutz
- Litigation
- Logos
- Madrid Protocol
- Miscellany
- Mootness
- Motion to Transfer
- Motion Trademarks
- Music Copyright
- Naked License
- New TLDs
- Nominative Fair Use
- Non Disclosure
- Non-Traditional Trademarks
- Octane
- Olympics
- Open Source
- Other People's Mail
- Pan American Convention
- Paris Convention
- Parody/Speech
- Personal Jurisdiction
- Pleading
- Podcasting
- Post purchase confusion
- Priority
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- Public Domain
- Recently Filed Suits
- Redskins Trademark
- Relatedness of goods
- Restraining Order re Assets
- Reverse Confusion
- Right of Publicity/Privacy
- RSS and Data Aggregation
- Rule 11
- Rule 12(b)(6)
- Rule 15
- Russia
- Sanctions
- Scandalous and Immoral!
- School Names
- Scope
- SDNY Procedure
- Search Engines
- Service of Process
- Shapes
- Similarity of Logos
- Slogans / Ornamental Use
- State Trademarks
- Stoller
- Surname
- Surveys
- Tatoos
- THe Sacred Right to One's Name
- Third Party Practice
- TITWIITWTW
- Trade Dress
- Trade Libel
- Trade Secret
- Trademark Fair Use
- Trademark Practice
- Trademark Trolls
- TTAB Filings
- UDRP
- Uncategorized
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- Venue
- Vexatious Litigation
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- What Is This Thing Called Dilution?
- YouTube
