PUBLIC MARKS with tag trademark

"Microsoft adCenter will no longer attempt to mediate affiliate compliance by creating lists of trademark-owner approved advertisers who can bid on trademarked keywords. " (...) "Intellectual property is a complicated topic, and Microsoft adCenter relies on trademark owners to help us understand their intellectual property."

"Isn't it ironic that a seller of fake PRADA bags can sell his fake products with a certificate of authenticity from the government?"

"China will revise the Trademark Law again in order to simplify lengthy procedures and improve efficiency in protecting exclusivity of registered trademarks"

"Japan's largest intercom maker, Aiphone Co., said Monday it is talking with Apple Inc. of the United States about the possibility that Apple's ''iPhone'' may violate its ''Aiphone'' trademark."

"Mattel Inc. sued a small company on Tuesday for using the toymaker's famed 'Barbie' trademark as part of the name for a pornographic Web site it owned."

Thomson CompuMark Forums : Internet Law Forum - May 22, 2007 - New York, NY Fichiers mp3 des exposés de : Martin Schwimmer Brett Lewis Anne Olson Patrick Slaven

"Here was “Florida’s oldest law firm” accusing us of infringing on their client’s trademark and cybersquatting on their client’s domain? Wait a minute, we were here first! "

World Trademark Review is the bi-monthly companion magazine to www.WorldTrademarkReport.com. It is a practitioner-led publication which focuses on the issues that matter to trademark professionals.

"A prominent Indian court has recently addressed for the first time the issue of parallel imports of intellectual property (IP) under Indian law in favor of a non-Indian IP owner."

Becky Pallack - 2007-08-01 "According to the company press release, on July 26, a jury returned a verdict finding damages of around $22 million for El Pollo Loco-Mexico, based on theories under Mexican law." Des montants de dommages et intérêts comme on en voit rarement en France...

Trademark licensing can be a lucrative business, if effectively managed.

DDP Settles Trademark Lawsuit Against Jay-Z July 25, 2007 (ce litige était mentionné dans un billet antérieur).

The dispute between BMW and Nissan arose over the letter M and its design.

Formula One Licensing has failed in a bid to gain exclusive control of the descriptor 'F1'. FOL, which is the brand exploitation division of the Formula One group run by Bernie Ecclestone, made a trademark application for the abbreviation for a range of goods to the UK Trademark Registry. The application was opposed by the French racing website Racing-Live SA.

Irlande : Allergan has sued Ocean Healthcare Ltd, Convent Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin, over selling products under the sign "Botoina" which, it claims, infringes Allergan's "Botox" trademarks.

The name "Dykes on Bikes" is inoffensive and a legitimate trademark, a federal appeals court ruled this week.

Shenzhen-based Yelaixiang Adult Products Ltd applied for the trademark of "Liantong", the same two Chinese characters as part of the Chinese name of the second largest mobile phone service provider in China, Zhongguo Liantong. Unlike other big names, China Unicom has shown indifference to the registration and has voiced no objection.

the current owner says he wants 77 million rubles, or $3 million, for the right to stick the name of the flamboyant and populist politician on a bottle of vodka

members of the historic Washington band called “The Wailers” brought suit in the Western District June 20 against Bob Marley’s historic band of the same name.

reverse product placement

"Seen in the context of this complex network of agreements, the trademark license becomes the way of “extending the brand” and co-marketing, so that each product helps sell the other products by reinforcing the popularity of the character. "

Procter & Gamble has retained The Beanstalk Group to help manage its growing global trademark licensing business.

Sotheby's sued three Hong Kong-registered companies that used the name "Su Fu Bi," written with the same Chinese characters Sotheby's uses to render its name in the language