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Trademark Battle Over Google Ads Intensifies
News A lawsuit filed this week has intensified an ongoing dispute over whether Google's policy of selling ads related to search terms is legal or involves trademark infringement. Earlier this year, auction giant eBay asked Google to block advertisers...
[January 29, 2004, 13:30]
Trademark Claims Loom For Firms Bearing 'Linux'
News Australian companies trading on the name "Linux" may be exposed to trademark claims for the first time as early as next year, if the nation's major open-source body gets its way. As reported by ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia on Tuesday, Linux...
[August 13, 2004, 11:05]
Trademark Slip Ruins Creative's MP3 Christmas
News The Patent Office has confirmed that "Nomad", the label at the centre of the Creative debacle , is a registered trademark and as such, prevents the multimedia company from launching its MP3 player in Europe.
[October 22, 1999, 13:50]
Trademark Infringement Suit Hits Search Again
News JP Enterprises, which owns the LoveCity.com site, filed the lawsuit on 6 June in a US district court in Colorado, accusing Yahoo, HDVE LLC, Spark Networks and Insight Direct USA of unfair competition and trademark dilution and infringement.
[June 19, 2006, 10:00]
Trademark Suit Pits Porn Against Profits
News But the case has some ambiguity, because Edgar Online Inc.doesn't actually have an approved trademark on the Edgar Online name, and, according to some legal experts, may not have the right to such a trademark.
[May 28, 1999, 9:03]
Torvalds Wades Into Linux Trademark Row
Talkback If he does not trademark Linux then some unscrupulous toady will do so. If he has the trademark then he MUST enforce it by law. So stop wingeing and be glad that SCO or Microsoft did not trademark Linux because Linus had not bothered.
[August 22, 2005, 16:35]
Apple Sued Over Trademark
News Tibco Software on Thursday filed a trademark infringement suit against Apple. For quite some time we have tried to reach an amicable agreement but, given Apple's continual refusal to honor our trademark, we have been forced to take action.
[August 28, 2003, 17:20]
Researchers Fight Red Hat's Fedora Trademark
News A team of university researchers says it will oppose Red Hat's attempt to trademark "Fedora", the company's moniker for its new hobbyist Linux line, based on their prior use of the name. Red Hat went ahead with the name and applied to the US Patent...
[November 24, 2003, 10:15]
SPAM Maker Sees Trademark Bid Canned
News Hormel Foods Corporation, which owns the trademark for spiced ham food product SPAM, has failed in its attempt to register "spam" as an EU-wide trademark when used to designate unsolicited emails. Hormel attempted to register "spam" as a trademark...
[October 5, 2006, 14:15]
Apple's IPhone Trademark In With A Chance - If They Want It
Blog There's a principle in US law that if you don't defend your trademark, you lose it. This has led to a lot of misery over the years - Peanuts author Charles Shulz was reportedly very unhappy about the way his characters had to be vigorously defended...
[January 11, 2007, 13:01]
A Brief History Of SGML And XML At The Patent And Trademark Office
White Papers The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) currently publishes approximately 3,500 patent grants per week and nearly that many patent applications. Sometime in 2002, the number of applications is likely to exceed the number of grants...
[September 1, 2005, 0:00]
IBM Accused Of Trademark Infringement
News IBM is reportedly being sued by a Chinese software company over alleged trademark infringement. The case between IBM and Chinese firm Shanghai Shenji Computer Software Company is currently under review in Beijing's Chaoyang People's Court...
[January 10, 2005, 15:05]
.tm Makes Net Trademark Debut
News Because it recalls the familiar "trademark" symbol, ".tm"-which Sunday joined the ranks of ".com," ".net," ".org," and others as a top-level domain-can now be used to spiff up a company's Web address.
[February 4, 1998, 9:20]
Intel Avoids Trademark Tangle With New Code Name
News To avoid a trademark dispute, Intel has changed the code name of Tanglewood, a version of its Itanium expected to come out after 2005 that will contain several processor cores, to Tukwila, an Intel spokesman said.
[December 19, 2003, 8:45]
Post-it Notes Trademark Threatens Office Release
News Microsoft plans a sticky memo feature in the imminent Office 97 that 3M says infringes on its famous trademark and is asking for the feature to be removed in the shipping version of the product. M last year released a version of its Post-it Notes...
[January 10, 1997, 11:55]
JBoss Denies Running A Trademark Monopoly
News JBoss has been accused of using its trademark to create a monopoly, but the company insists it is merely protecting its brand. Rickard Öberg, who claims to be the co-founder of JBoss, said in a blog last week that JBoss' trademark policy is in...
[October 11, 2005, 12:20]
Linux Australia Trademark Battle Takes New Twist
News Legal wrangling over a South Australian company's attempt to trademark the term Linux Australia has taken an unusual turn. Linux Australia Pty Ltd, currently trading as Openera, came under scrutiny from open-source enthusiasts last month when it...
[September 23, 2004, 9:40]
Torvalds Loses Linux Trademark Bid
News The move apparently had been initiated by Linux Australia, an open-source advocacy group, as part of a bid to stop local companies from trying to trademark the word "Linux. The group was motivated by a desire to protect its own name after an...
[September 17, 2005, 11:35]
Pay-to-play Search Ignites Trademark Battle
News In recent years, trademark owners and their rivals have embarked on a game of one-upmanship, with smaller companies creating new ways to attract Web surfers that tread close to, if not over, the infringement line, legal experts said.
[February 11, 2002, 12:02]
Debian Developers Ponder Trademark Changes
News The leader of the Debian Linux distribution has called for changes to be made to the open source project's trademark policy, to ensure it has the appropriate level of protection against legal challenges.
[September 22, 2005, 12:55]
