Long time Trademark Blog reader Aaron Rubin of MoFo has a short case note available on the recent SKF v. ITC decision on gray market goods.
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YONGHE v. YONGHE in Shanghai
Yonghe Soybean Milk of Taiwan v. Xianheshang Yonghe Soybean Milk (YONGHE is a city in Taiwan) in Shanghai no. 1 Intermediate People’s Court via shanghaidaily.com.
Thank You To Minnesota
Thank you to the Midwest Intellectual Property Institute / Minnesota CLE for the invite and thanks to all attendees for hearing me out.
Q Logo v. Q logo
Via Veer, two similar Q logos.
Rainy Day Keyword Fun
Put GEICO into Google as a search term, just for fun.
F.I.T. v. NyFIT
Authors Guild v. Google Print con’t
Fred von Lohmann of EFF with a fair use analysis of Google Print.
Google Responds To Authors Guild Lawsuit
Authors Guild’s press release regarding its copyright suit against Google over its Google Print project.
Prof. Patry comments (note: chutzpah is the noun, chutzpadik is the adjective).
IPODCAST And PODCAST As Trademarks
Engadget notes that Apple has filed two trademark applications for IPODCAST last week, covering extremely broad ranges of goods and services. Engadget’s negative reaction seems misplaced (and seems to confuse patent concepts with trademark concepts). Apple is seeking exclusive rights to use IPODCAST as a trademark to identify certain goods and services – it is not…
Trademark Office Goes Wiki
Wow. In researching the piece I’m about to post (see above) I saw an office action (dated September 9 of this year) containing a descriptiveness objection, supoprted by live links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an amazing, uh, encyclopedic source, but given that anyone can edit a wiki page, its use as a reference source in…