2012

Three trademark applications were filed that include the term BLUE IVY CARTER.  One of those, 85526099, was signed by Beyonce.  That application received an office action after one week.  Did your eyebrows just go up?  OK, TDR doesn’t reflect it, but our guess is that the applicant filed a “Petition to Make Special“:…

From a patent case:

Defendants move to prevent [plaintiff] from using pejorative terms or phrases at trial. Specifically, Defendants contend that [plaintiff] is likely to repeat allegations that she has made in the press that [defendants] “stole” her bra. Courts may prohibit the use of pejorative terms under FRE 403 “when such categorizations [are] inflammatory

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Plaintiff claims trade dress in its traction hoist (used for things like moving window washing platforms). The trade dress claim was in:

1) a cube-shaped gear box with horizontal fins;

2) a cylindrical motor mounted in an off-set position on the cube and partially overhanging the edge of the cube:

3) the cylindrical motor including…