Plaintiff produces live performances of the Marvelettes, or Marvelletes, or something, but as Motown, or the Marvelletes, or whoever it was that sang “Please Mr. Postman”, never abandoned the mark, so plaintiff couldn’t obtain common law rights vis-a-vis defendant.
AAA sues Howard Johnson Express Inn of Monterey for unauthorized use of the AAA logo. The photo above is from TripAdvisor.
Unsuccessful lawsuit against MGA by copyright owner of ‘devil/angel’ image shown above, not objectively unreasonable nor brought in bad faith, thus MGA is not entitled to attorney fees.
Costco can’t establish for purposes of summary judgment that samples of product deemed to be counterfeit came from defendant’s shipment.
From here.
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District Court judge refuses to grant Hyundai’s request for certification of intermediate decision granting LV’s motion for summary judgment on dilution, noting that infringement claim is still pending. On to trial.
From here.