Discussion of Vietnamanese companie, such as Trung Nguyen (Central Highlands) Coffee, failing to protect their products abroad.

Bloomberg LP apparently uses the trademark PENGBO in China. It has sued two Chinese companies for using that mark. The article doesn’t explain why Bloomberg uses that trademark.
This may be completely missing the issue in this case, but some Western companies use neither a translation nor a transliteration (characters that produce the phonetic equivalent…

OHIM confirms FIFA World Cup Trademarks. Via Sportsbusiness.com.
Prior discussion of case by Lovells here.

From Friday’s Wall Street Journal (sorry, I’m running behind), an article (no free online version available) entitled ‘China’s Logo Crackdown,’ discussing the absence of infringements of the logo for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The question is raised: if China can effectively stop the infringement of one trademark, can it effectively stop the infringement of other…

You cannot copy your CD onto your iPod in Australia. More here.

IPKAT reports on a forum non conveniens application by Atari of NY denied in a UK court.  Maybe the IPKAT can expand upon its observation as to ‘how infrequently an application to stay UK proceedings in favour of a foreign action is ever successful – at least in IP disputes.’

Reuters reports that Google will stop using GMAIL and will instead use GOOGLEMAIL in the UK, as a result of a trademark protest from an owner of prior rights in the term.

I will subtly point out here that our firm performs trademark clearance searches and provides availability opinions for the U.S. and abroad, working with…