NY Times: “Got Milk? For Sports Drink Maker, Nestle Says No:
On June 9, Nestlé USA filed a petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to revoke Muscle Milk’s trademark for being “deceptively misdescriptive.” In response to questions from The New York Times, representatives for both Nestlé and CytoSport issued statements.
WSJ: In a Mermaid Statue, Danes Find Something Rotten in State of Michigan
GREENVILLE, Mich. — This town’s statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Mermaid” is a symbol of its proud Danish heritage. Now some are saying she doesn’t have permission to be in the country.
Nobody disputes the sculpture — installed in 1994 as
Plaintiff sounds a bit like a cross between Nathan Thurm and Mr. Devious (from the Monty Python motor insurance sketch).
Defendant/Counter-claim plaintiff, operates the JAPONAIS restaurants, using the logo above. Apparently the JAPONAIS restaurants are well known. Plaintiff filed a trademark application covering the mark depicted in the bottom drawing, claiming that the similarities were
Early coverage here. Seems that this involves the sale of STEVE MADDEN watches on eBay which is problematic because STEVE MADDEN doesn’t license watches.
Steve Madden v Ebay
Plaintiffs may not receive fees and costs relating to enforcing defendant’s compliance with preliminary injunction order – proper award was profits, even though defendant obtained no profits from its contempt.
Decision Profits After Contempt
Award of statutory damages in default copyright infringement case relating to karaoke machines.
Decision Karaoke
Soaring Helmet v Bill Me dba Leatherup.com and Google, WD WA June9 2009
Nike owns a registration in the design of the AIR FORCE 1 sneaker (middle picture) consisting of “the design of the stitching on the exterior of the shoe, the design of the material panels that form the exterior body of the shoe, the design of the wavy panel on the top of the shoe that
For one thing, I’m posting more often to the TrademarkBlog Twitter account.