According to the complaint below, CARIBBEAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, promoted here, doesn’t exist (see para 21 of comlpaint).

Plaintiff, American Global University School of Medicine, alleges that defendant, former employee of Plaintiff,  stole passwords and codes, and set up fictitious websites, accepting admission application fees to a fictitious medical school (estimated $500k para 33).   Also,

Reno Aces baseball teams allege that logo designer sold similar image to Nevada Aces base ball team (depiction of Nevada Aces logo in complaint).

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Before the Sonny Bono copyright extension in 1998, I thought this would be the dominant trademark issue of coming decades.  It might still be if there are no more extensions, so here’s a preview.

Fleischer claims trademark and copyright in the BETTY BOOP word and image.  It has incontestable trademarks in both.

Avela sells BETTY

I have news.

I moved my practice to Leason Ellis today.  Leason Ellis is a young, growing IP law boutique in White Plains, NY (for you out-of-towners, White Plains is 35 minutes from mid-town Manhattan).  We do trademarks, patents, copyrights, domain names and licensing.  It’s a national-caliber practice with in-building parking, so what more could

Detail from display in Niketown in Manhattan.

From the complaint: Plaintiff Swatch, a Swiss publicly traded company, hosted a conference call for securities analysts. The call was transmitted and recorded by a conference call service. Participants were instructed not to record the call for publication or broadcast. Bloomberg News was not invited or authorized to participate in the call. Bloomberg recorded the

The NY Times ran an article today on KENNEDY FRIED CHICKEN . There was an original KENNEDY FRIED CHICKEN in Brooklyn and it spend its early years being sued by KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, That dispute ended when KFC became KFC. While the owner of the original Kennedy’s now owns federal trademark registration 2994240, the name