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Text of Complaint: TOAST v TOAST
TOAST for software platform for restaurants v. TOAST and USE TOAST for mobile app that provides customers with food and drink recommendations.
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6 Things Trademark Lawyers Want To Know About the New EU Trademark Law
Much has been written about the coming amendments to EU trademark law. We have a short attention span here so long-time friend to the Trademark Blog, Verena von Bomhard of Bomhard IP, boils down the essentials to six things trademark lawyers want to know about the new EU trademark law.
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Text of Complaint, FRAPPUCCINO v FREDDOCCINO (WD NY)
Starbucks sues Coffee Culture for dilution and infringement arising from use of FREDDOCCINO, as well as false advertising relating to various ‘fair trade’ claims.
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Text of Complaint in BWP Media v Bleacher Report Over Gronk Photos
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Swyers and The Trademark Company v PTO
The Trademark Company is reportedly the second largest filer of trademarks in the U.S. The USPTO appears to have been investigating the firm’s practices relating to that firm’s use of electronic signatures and the level of supervision by attorneys of that firm’s filed applications. The Trademark Company is protesting tactics taken by the PTO.
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Text of Decision in LV v My Other Bag – LV Ordered To Find Parody Funny
Followers of the legal treatments of parodies of trademarks may want to skip immediately to footnote 4 of the decision.
You see the top two pictures above? One side of the bag says ‘My Other Bag …” and the other side is a depiction of an LV bag. Get it? Ok, that’s fair use. LV’s
Sunkist Lemons and Oranges Billboard (undated)
Text of FTE v Spirits Intl (STOLI) – 2d Circuit
Southern District Court of NY had previously declined to recognize transfer of STOLI marks to a quasi-government entity, FTE, thus holding that FTE had no standing to bring this infringement suit. Second Circuit reverses:
“The declaration of a United States court that the executive branch of the Russian government violated its own law by transferring