Plaintiff’s predecessor in interest adopted the mark iBooks for both physical books and ebooks in 1999. It had some success, and had annual sales of up to $2 million by 2005. Its trademark application however had been rejected on descriptiveness and mis-descriptiveness grounds. In 2006 the CEO of predecessor died in a car accident, plunging
A Conversation on Twitter Today Regarding Band Names
Who were the first musicians to use suggestive or arbitrary group names?Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five?
— TrademarkBlog (@TrademarkBlog) May 9, 2013
@legallysocial @trademarkblog Jelly Roll Morton.1905
— Elizabeth King (@ElizabethKing) May 9, 2013
@elizabethking @legallysocial He wrote Jelly Roll Blues in 05 but didn’t perform as Jelly Roll then.But
Link to Text of Decision in Righthaven
Righthaven’s standing to bring lawsuits denied rejected; fair use holding by lower court vacated as Righthaven didn’t have standing.
Righthaven LLC v. Hoehn #Contracts #Copyright #IPLaw j.st/Ryw
— US 9th Cir (@US9thCircuitCt) May 9, 2013
GRONK NATION v Gronk t-shirts
The football-playing Gronkowski brothers sue t-shirt company for selling GRONK shirts, alleging Federal trademark and various Massachusett state claims including right of publicity.
Grammar note regarding paragraph 11: both ‘More important’ and ‘more importantly’ are acceptable usages.
Pictured above – the Gronk Brothers, on the Gronk Nation website.
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It’s Fun To Stay At The (Historic) YMCA
YMCA sues developers attempting to create an arts center in a former YMCA they promote as the Historic YMCA.
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TIBETAN BAICAO TEA v TIBETAN BAICAO TEA
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DJ Action: CHEWEY BREEDERER CRISPAW Dog Toy v LOUIS ROEDERER CRISTAL Champagne
Taking a page from CHEWY VUITTON, plaintiff sells rubber dog toys in the shapes of bottles, including CATAROMA (to look like CORONA), HEINIE SNIFFIN’ (Heinekin) and BARKS ROOT BEER (guess). Declaratory judgment defendant Roederer sells CRISTAL Champagne, and protested plaintiff’s use of CRISPAW.
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Potvin Sucks!
Allan Zelnick died yesterday at the age of 82. Now there’s one fewer person who understands what the term ‘Lemon Treed’ means. Allan is on the short list of people to whom I owe my career. I quote him a lot, usually unknowingly. I will always remember that the Koppers Oil Tanker case stands for
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