Category Archives: Trademark

• China And Hong Kong Trademarks. Think Puerto Rico.

  Posted on 一月 22, 2012 by adminsampsung in Trademark

  by Dan @ Chinalawblog on December 30, 2011 Just got back from a family vacation in Puerto Rico. While there, I saw a rental car company called “Target.” This company had the same logo as theTarget stores so common on the U.S. mainland. Well of course that got me to thinking. Is this rental car company infringing on [...]

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• 2011: An Intellectual Property Year In Partial Review

  Posted on 一月 19, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright, Patent, Trademark

  by Michael M. Ratoza The year 2011 produced many significant IP cases, some of which were discussed in previous posts in this blog. Here are some highlights: Georgia State University: College Course Electronic Packets ~ Cambridge University Press v. Board of Regents of University System of Georgia (08-cv-1425, N.D. Georgia). This case remains pending before Judge Orinda D. [...]

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• The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issued 37 precedential decisions in calendar 2011

  Posted on 一月 18, 2012 by adminsampsung in Trademark

  By John L. Welch @ the TTABlog Section 2(a) – Immoral or Scandalous: Precedential No. 25: TTAB Finds Raised Middle Finger Design for Bottle to be Scandalous or Immoral, Affirms 2(a) Refusal Section 2(d) – likelihood of confusion: Precedential No. 32: CLASSIC AMERICAN BLEND Confusingly Similar to CLASSIC CANADIAN for Tobacco, Says TTAB Precedential No. 27: [...]

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• The war between Coke and Pepsi over the shape of a bottle is alive and well.

  Posted on 十二月 23, 2011 by adminsampsung in Trademark

  by ipwars.com Last week the parties were in court fighting over discovery. By the tie of the hearing what was actually in dispute was quite narrow. In the end, Dodds-Streeton J ruled that Coca Cola should be allowed to get discovery amongst other things from Schweppes, Pepsi’s bottler in Australia, relating to whether or not [...]

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• BMW’s Long March to Court

  Posted on 十二月 22, 2011 by adminsampsung in Trademark

  By Stan Abrams @ China Hearsay on 12/01/11 This intellectual property case is really funky, as in “WTF is this all about?” Here are the basic facts, and then I’ll chime in with a bit of admittedly confused commentary: The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) is suing BMW China for allegedly using images of the Long March rocket [...]

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