Apparently Instagram’s API Brand Guidelines said that INSTA- formatives were cool. See para 26 of the complaint.
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Blockchain.io Responds to BLOCKCHAIN Trademark Lawsuit
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
SDNY: Sick Boy v Chainsmokers re SICK BOY
Sick Boy Clothing, a South Dakota-based apparel company, owns a registration for SICK BOY. Its website identifies musicians who wear SICK BOY clothing. The Chainsmokers, a band, released a song entitled “Sick Boy,” and sells some merchandise using the term.
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SDNY Lawsuit Over Use of BLOCKCHAIN Trademark – You Read That Right
Plaintiff, Blockchain Luxembourg, owns a federal trademark registration for BLOCKCHAIN and design, disclaiming the word BLOCKCHAIN. It provides blockchain-related goods and services, and operates websites at blockchain.com and blockchain.info.
It defines the marks in which it claims rights in this suit in para 24 of the complaint:
So yes, plaintiff disclaimed the
Regus v WeWork re HQ for Office Space Rental and Services (ND Texas)
Office rental company Regus sues office rental company WeWork over use of the mark HQ. Regus has a registration from 1988 for HQ covering office services (i.e. supplying ‘back office’ personnel services to its renters)
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After All That, Belmora v Bayer (FLANAX) Dismissed On Statute of Limitations
Bayer sells FLANAX brand pain reliever in Mexico. Virginia-based Belmora adopted and applied to register the FLANAX mark for pain reliever in 2003, prior to any use or applications in the U.S. by Bayer. 4th Circuit, in the first circuit court case to apply Lexmark to 43(a)(1)(A), held that for purposes of 12(b)(6), Bayer could
Engine Company 3, Ladder Company 12
When we lived in Chelsea, our local firehouse was Engine Co. 3, Ladder Co. 12. They would send firemen to visit our kids’ preschool. When we took the kids in the stroller by the firehouse, the firemen would let the kids climb on the firetrucks.
On 9/11, Engine Co. 3, Ladder Co. 12 lost five
Rebecca Minkoff on Effect of Tariffs on Counterfeits
From NY Times article on proposed tariffs:
Luxury Handbags
“Placing tariffs on products like ours (in particular handbags) that are not at risk for intellectual property theft in manufacturing, and are not related to the China 2025 plan, will only ennoble the bad actors in the Chinese economy who pose a genuine threat to
IPO Amicus in Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceutical re OnSale Bar
Amicus Brief of Intellectual Property Owners Association, in support of neither party, drafted by my colleagues Rob Isackson, Matt Kaufman and Lauren Sabol.
ARGUMENT
I. Proper Application of the Post-AIA OnSale
Bar Is Critically Important to All
Industries and Fields of Technology
II. The Post-AIA On-Sale Bar Provision Should
Be Interpreted to Exclude Secret Sales
How A Trademark Lawyer Sees The Chelsea-Arsenal Pre-Game Show
credit: DB Schwimmer