Hard Rock Cafe complains re use of HARD LOX CAFE as name of not for profit festival. Note reference to how Hard Rock was ‘obligated’ to complain.
My Life, My Card, My Second Lawsuit
Second time someone claimed prior rights in American Express’ MY LIFE MY CARD slogan.
First time reported here, apparently later settled.
EBay Sues Over Its ITs
From the Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Blog, we learn that eBay is suing WorldClassAuctions.com (source of the second tagline above) on 13 counts of trademark infringement (link to complaint there). EBay alleges trade dress in its home page (always an interesting theory), as well as its IT mark.
Boycott Old Navy If You Feel Like It
Details via Counterfeit Chic here.
Foley v. Foley Con’t
Foley firm settles trademark dispute with Foley firm.
Suggested advertising slogan for everyone else:
“Go With The Trademark Firm Not Embroiled In A Trademark Dispute”
You Can Get Dizzy Thinking About This
Wall Street Journal: On MySpace, Millions of Users Make ‘Friends’ With Ads (Free online today only), on the practice of movie studios to create MySpace personal pages for fictional characters from their movies, such as Ricky Bobby of “Talledega Nights,” and John Tucker of “John Tucker Must Die.” Presently there are numerous MySpace pages for
SciFinder Scholar v. Google Scholar
News.com: “Google Scholar trademark case ends.”
The Website Formerly Known As NPGMC
Price closes his website at NPGMusicClub.com and his attorney says it has nothing to do with a recent lawsuit brought by antoher NPG.
ROMANTIC INTERLUDE v. PROVOCATIVE INTERLUDE
Stephan Co, says that Elizabeth ARden infringed its INTERLUDE trademark through sale of Arden’s PROVOCATIVE INTERLUDE product. Elizabeth Arden says the suit is without merit.
Not mentioned in the story: Stephan apparently sells under the ROMANTIC INTERLUDE mark.
Milbank v. Milbank, Foley v. Foley
NY Times: “Law Firms, Unflattered, Turn on Soundalikes.”