Via the Daily News of Sri Lanka: Coca Cola has successfully enjoined the makers of MY COLA from using similar labels and similarly shaped bottles and from placing its stickers saying MY COLA on Coca Cola’s display racks.

Via IPKAT, Chanel, owner of the mark COCO, successfully opposes application for COCO DE MER in the Chancery Division of the English High Court. 

Wall Street Journal, page B1 today (paid sub req.) “Lawsuit Over Counterfeit Jewlery Shakes Big Discounter,”  reports on lawsuit filed by Liz Clairborne against Tuesday Morning, a close-out retailer, alleging that a distributor, Consumer Product Recovery, placed the MONET brand on two million pieces of counterfeit jewelry.  More coverage via Google News here.

International…

NY Times article reporting little backlash against U.S. brands as a result of Iraq.

OK, it seems that there are rival copyright royalty collectives in Nigeria (as there are here) and that one them, headed by Charly Boy, hired 100 individuals to ‘invade’ the national copyright office.  The dispute resolves around the fact that Mr. Boy’s collective is not licensed to collect royalties.

Coverage here, background here.

DM News reports that a German company, Metaspinner, has obtained an order in Germany barring Google from selling the keyword PREISPIRATEN.  According to the article, Google had previously prevailed in a similar suit in Germany.  More coverage here.

Google.de search of PREISPIRATEN here.

Google’s problem in France from last week here.

Google’s…

The University of Iowa football team refuses to play teams that have American Indian mascots, such as the Florida State Seminoles.  It makes exceptions, such as the Fighting Illini (due to Big Ten conference obligations).  Via Findlaw.

Not really having to do with trademarks but: In Quebec, margarine must be white, because if it were yellow, consumers would confuse it with butter. Canada’s Supreme Court is now reviewing this law.  Via CBC.