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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 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 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]
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]
.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]
Dell expected to lose 'cloud computing' trademark bid
News The US Patent and Trademark Office has backtracked on an earlier move to grant Dell trademark rights to the term 'cloud computing'. Dell received a preliminary notice on 8 July saying the company could have the trademark, but the notice was...
[August 11, 2008, 9:18]
German company seeks MP3 trademark
News Germany's Hypermedia has filed an application to trademark the word MP3 in Europe. The Munich-based company submitted the application to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), the body responsible for establishing uniform...
[March 24, 2000, 14:34]
Psion settles Intel 'netbook' trademark suit
News However, the British PDA maker Psion registered a trademark for 'netbook' in a filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office in 1996. Psion also sued Intel over use of the trademark. On Monday, Psion issued a statement in which it said that it and...
[June 1, 2009, 13:30]
Microsoft Excels itself with late trademark application
News Microsoft introduced its Excel spreadsheet program in 1985, but didn't get around to officially registering its trademark until earlier this year. The company filed a trademark application for Excel in April, even though the name is already...
[November 12, 2004, 7:50]
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]
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]
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]
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Downloads US Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Laws Quick Study Guide. US Trademark LawAppendix: Glossary of legal terms Glossary of legal terms in computer technology Glossary of patent legal concepts List of legal abbreviations List of 100 largest law firms...
[January 15, 2007, 6:00]
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]
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]
Google wins keyword trademark suit
News Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted Google's motion to dismiss a trademark-infringement complaint brought by Geico. The judge said that "as a matter of law it is not trademark infringement to...
[December 16, 2004, 8:00]
Microsoft loses latest round in Windows trademark battle
News At stake is the validity of the Windows trademark, which Microsoft was granted in 1995 after a two-year fight to reverse an earlier ruling by the US Trademarks Office that the word could not be trademarked.
[May 16, 2002, 16:25]
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]
