I blogged the complaint filed by Blockchain Luxembourg against Blockchain.io here last week.
I have now been contacted by the head of communications for Blockchain.io, who asked that I post the following:
Paymium, that has been successfully operating a BTC/EUR exchange since 2013 and serving 170,000 customers, is currently closing its private ICO to accelerate
Royal Crown opposed various applications by Coke to register terms that included the word ZERO, on grounds of genericness (or, in the alternative, that the terms were highly descriptive and Coke had not shown a sufficient degree of secondary menaing in the term).
The court instructed the Board to consider, on remand, whether ZERO is
Too Soon to Tell If MOO DUK KWAN Is Generic
MD Penn
http://t.co/p1ZjPdRFSr
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) September 6, 2014
From the knock-down drag-out world of religious prayer cards: plaintiff fails to establish trade dress in its catalog. Exhaustive discussion of analysis of trademark protection for the ‘look and feel’ of a catalog.
43(b)log discussion of Gerffert v Dean here.
gerffert trade dress in catalog.pdf
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WEBSTERS CHALK PAINT POWDER v. ANNIE SLOAN,
ND Georgia
Plt. acquired distinctiveness in CHALK PAINT
http://t.co/pESejb9AOX
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) August 30, 2014
Cross Commerce v Collective, SDNY
What-Not-To-Do List for Surveys;
Also, COLLECTIVE is Descriptive
http://t.co/rzPXYORqKU
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) August 30, 2014
SWEAT SHOPPE for cycling studio v SWEAT SHOPPE for day spa
CD Cal
Def's summary judgment denied
http://t.co/E769FUpGIQ
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) August 25, 2014
INTA amicus brief on whether LADY GAGA is registrable as a trademark for class 9 recorded music, in Japan.
inta lady gaga descriptiveness brief.pdf
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Plaintiff has an incontestable registration for REGISTERED AGENTS, LTD. covering filing and retrieval of incorporation and corporate documents with government agencies.
Complaint Registered Agents Ltd Delaware(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();
ND Cal District Judge denies Apple’s motion for preliminary injunction regarding Amazon’s use of APP STORE FOR ANDROID. The Court denied to hold whether APP STORE is a generic term, but rather held that Apple failed to show a likelihood of confusion (noting that Apple failed to show that APP STORE was a strong mark).