Written by Technological advancement in the 21st century is truly a marvel of human ingenuity and occurs at such a rapid rate that often times new technologies are outdated before any sort of intellectual property rights can even be granted to their respective owners. Barring the unfortunate instances when this occurs, protecting these technologies sooner rather [...]
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Mark Madness
Working in the intellectual property business, there are some things you can always rely on happening: trademark bullies, large companies trying to hide their trademark filings, and the “flavor of the month” trademark applications. We saw it with Charlie Sheen, with Occupy Wall Street, and now it seems there is a new trademark cropping up [...]
READ MORE »Google’s Schemer, or Meevine’s?
On Thursday, December 8, 2011, Google Inc. launched a new service called SchemerTM, which has slowly been building up some speed in the blogosphere; however, there are some interesting things to be noted about this new service from a trademark perspective. Schemer itself appears to be a sort of Foursquare® meets your typical Sunday paper [...]
READ MORE »The $1.5 Billion iPad
With a resounding thud of the gavel on December 13, 2011, technology powerhouse Apple Inc.® may have just lost all rights to the trademark name iPad® in a key economic market, China. The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court has put forth a final answer on legal proceedings that have been occuring since 2006, when a Taiwan [...]
READ MORE »Chicken and Kale Like Peas in a Pod?
In this world there are two types of trademark owners, those who are gun shy and those who are trigger happy when it comes to potential trademark infringement. Typically, trigger happy trademark owners are well within their rights when issuing a cease and desist letter, especially when they have enlisted the help of an intellectual [...]
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