Caterpillar has lost its TRO motion to restrain Disney’s release of the movie “George of the Jungle 2,” which movie allegedly infringed and/or tarnished Caterpillar’s trademarks in its depiction of bulldozers in the movie. Background here.
In a somewhat similar fact pattern, Wham-O had failed in enjoining the use of its SLIP N’ SLIDE
The Parma Ham consortium comes one step closer to obtaining the name PARMAHAM.COM.
Consorzio Del Prosciutto dil Parma v. Domain Name Clearing Company and Chris Truax, no. 02-56839 (Ninth Cir. Oct. 16, 2003).
The problems of selling high quality merchandise on the Web: Tiffany and Company alleges that Overstock.com sold pendants bearing the TIFFANY mark that were not authorized by Tiffany. Overstock indicates that it had verified the source of the items. Tiffany suggests that certain sales documents in the trade channel that lead to Overstock obtaining the
Plaintiff established that the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens had infirnged his copyright in a drawing for the Balitmore Ravens logo. He claimed damages based on a variety of sources of revenue to the team, including merchandise sales and broadcast income. The Fourth Circuit holds that there must be a conceivable connection between the infringement
Coca Cola has agreed to stop using Yao Ming’s image on packaging in China and has apologized for using it without his permission. Yao has a sponsorship agreement with Pepsi. Via Interfax.
Rap lyrics by Judge in Eminem defamation case here.
Tiffany and Company awarded $573K in damages against a website selling counterfiet TIFFANY jewlery, via AP.
Via Internetnews.com, Bidz has sued eBay over the use of its registered trademark $1 NO RESERVE.
If you wanted to make a fish-shaped gummy candle, you would likely need to make the back flat, where you pour the liquid into a starch impression. Also, in order to make it look like a fish you would likely need to use a head, tail, scale pattern and eyes. So Malaco Leaf, owner of
A California woman has brought an action against Smuckers, alleging that its description of its jam as “simply 100 percent fruit” is false, as the jam only contains 30 percent fruit. Via