Rosie fights with ROSIE.  Rosie leaves ROSIE.  ROSIE closes ROSIE. ROSIE sues Rosie.  Rosie counter-sues ROSIE.  My chance of having magazine named after me diminished.

Nartron’s complaint that STMicroelectronics infringed its SMART POWER trademark for electrical relay assemblies and electrical power circuits in combination with electrical logic circuits is dismissed by Sixth Circuit, on the grounds that (1) SMART POWER is a generic term for technology that combines power transistors and control circuitry on a single integrated circuit and…

Icannwatch on Wall St. Journal on the ITU on ICANN.

Doonesbury on Blogs.  This is not a permalink so today is the only day to see this.

Ireland has endorsed the Nice Treaty, opening the way for expansion of the EEC.  This raises the question, what to do about trademarks in the proposed new member countries (including eight Eastern European countries, as well as Cyprus and Malta) identical to existing Community Trademarks but having different owners.  The CTM sets out to be…

Another political campaign with allegations of cybersquatting and infringement, this time in Wisconsin.

There is a long and tortuous history concerning the trademark for HAVANA CLUB rum.  There was a pre-Castro HAVANA CLUB rum and there is a present day Cuban HAVANA CLUB rum.

Bacardi (successor in interest to the pre-Castro rum) was influential in getting the U.S. to adopt legislation to ban importation of the Cuban version…

INTA is informing its members that the United States Senate passed the advice and consent resolution for the Madrid Protocol, an International treaty allowing for easier filing of trademark applications in multiple jurisdictions.  The next step for the Protocol is the promulgation of rules by the USPTO.   In addition, the U.S. must deposit its…