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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 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 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]
Creative MP3 strategy scuppered by trademark dispute
News A trademark dispute has forced the European launch of Creative Technology's Nomad MP3 player to be cancelled according to PCWorld. Previously a spokesman for the company blamed the earthquake in Taiwan for the decision citing component shortages...
[October 21, 1999, 16:51]
.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]
Torvalds wades into Linux trademark row
News Linux founder Linus Torvalds has defended his protection of the Linux trademark and claims that sublicensing the trademark is a loss-making operation. Last month, a lawyer acting on behalf of Linus Torvalds wrote to 90 companies in Australia asking...
[August 22, 2005, 13:30]
'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman
News Richard Stallman, chair of the Free Software Foundation, said on Thursday that the Linux trademark fracas in Australia has distracted attention away from the real issue - that of freedom to distribute and change software.
[August 26, 2005, 18:05]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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[January 15, 2007, 6:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
