Former business associate of plaintiff tagTrends, starts competing business under the name tagTrends, changes it, then advertises itself as ‘formerly tagTrends.’
tagtrends
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Health services provider WILLINGWAY seeks TRO against Mariel Hemingway for use of THE WILLINGWAY for health-oriented book and kit.
willingway memo for tro
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University of Wyoming sues off-campus housing development named THE POINTE AT UW. What if it were named THE POINT OFF UW? THE POINTE NEAR UW? (doesn’t have quite the same ring).
uw v pointe uw
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The Government Advisory Committee of ICANN has released a communique. ‘Advice to the ICANN Board’ begins on page 3, and makes observations such as ‘singular and plural versions of the string as a TLD could lead to potential consumer confusion.’ Annexes I and II are controversial only because we live in bizarro ICANN world. They
cut beyond
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Interesting complaint. Registrant for domain names USSEARCHREPORTS.COM and NATURALIZES.COM brings DJ complaint based on a threat of a UDRP made by CitizenHawk, a brand protection company that brings UDRPs on behalf of trademark owners (such as the owners of US SEARCH.COM (sic – there is a space in the registered trademark) and NATURALIZERS.COM. This
UDRP Complaint re ARAMCOS.NET. The ‘title’ Registrant, as in the person whose name shows up in the authoritative Whois, contacts WIPO and indicates that he (or she) is the victim of identity fraud, and had nothing to do with the registration of the domain name. After being informed of the UDRP, the operator of the
hearpod v earpod
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Novartis sells BENEFIBER is a container that looks like this:
It owns a registration for the configuration of the container. The drawing in the registration looks like this:
The mark is described in the registration as:
. . . the design of a cylindrical bottle, the bottle having tapered sides near the top of the
Prior registrant for TIMELINES sues Facebook. FB fails at summary judgment to establish that TIMELINES is generic or descriptive, or that FB was not using it as a trademark.
timelines v facebook SJ
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