Sick Boy Clothing, a South Dakota-based apparel company, owns a registration for SICK BOY. Its website identifies musicians who wear SICK BOY clothing. The Chainsmokers, a band, released a song entitled “Sick Boy,” and sells some merchandise using the term.
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Plaintiff, Blockchain Luxembourg, owns a federal trademark registration for BLOCKCHAIN and design, disclaiming the word BLOCKCHAIN. It provides blockchain-related goods and services, and operates websites at blockchain.com and blockchain.info.
It defines the marks in which it claims rights in this suit in para 24 of the complaint:
So yes, plaintiff disclaimed the
Office rental company Regus sues office rental company WeWork over use of the mark HQ. Regus has a registration from 1988 for HQ covering office services (i.e. supplying ‘back office’ personnel services to its renters)
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Bayer sells FLANAX brand pain reliever in Mexico. Virginia-based Belmora adopted and applied to register the FLANAX mark for pain reliever in 2003, prior to any use or applications in the U.S. by Bayer. 4th Circuit, in the first circuit court case to apply Lexmark to 43(a)(1)(A), held that for purposes of 12(b)(6), Bayer could
When we lived in Chelsea, our local firehouse was Engine Co. 3, Ladder Co. 12. They would send firemen to visit our kids’ preschool. When we took the kids in the stroller by the firehouse, the firemen would let the kids climb on the firetrucks.
On 9/11, Engine Co. 3, Ladder Co. 12 lost five
From NY Times article on proposed tariffs:
Luxury Handbags
“Placing tariffs on products like ours (in particular handbags) that are not at risk for intellectual property theft in manufacturing, and are not related to the China 2025 plan, will only ennoble the bad actors in the Chinese economy who pose a genuine threat to
Amicus Brief of Intellectual Property Owners Association, in support of neither party, drafted by my colleagues Rob Isackson, Matt Kaufman and Lauren Sabol.
ARGUMENT
I. Proper Application of the Post-AIA OnSale
Bar Is Critically Important to All
Industries and Fields of Technology
II. The Post-AIA On-Sale Bar Provision Should
Be Interpreted to Exclude Secret Sales
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Reflex Media operates online dating websites such as SEEKING ARRANGEMENT. Seeking Arrangement uses the term ‘Sugar Daddies’ to describe its target customers. Its taglines RELATIONSHIPS ON YOUR TERMS and MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS are part of its coy branding.
Defendant RichMeetBeautiful (hmmm, a little too-on-the-nose) allegedly used plaintiff’s taglines, but also copied various profile descriptions.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment for CoreLogic in an action brought under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Plaintiffs, professional real estate photographers, alleged that CoreLogic removed copyright management information from their photographs and distributed their photographs with the copyright management information removed, in violation of