Written by 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 [...]
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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 [...]
READ MORE »Will You Keep Your Trademark PG From The New .XXX Domain Extensions?
With a plethora of top level domain addresses to choose from, the newest member to the group has been turning heads and raising eyebrows. .xxx domain addresses will be available to the general public on December 6, 2011 however, the “sunrise period” which is a time frame that allows trademark owners to register their names [...]
READ MORE »Charities being Uncharitable
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Some may say that this is “uncharitable”, but Susan G. Komen For the Cure is fighting to prevent other charitable groups from using the term “for the cure” or “for a cure”. Susan G. Komen Breat Cancer Foundation has trademarked variants from “DVD’s for the Cure” to “Ski for the Cure” “Hotels for the Cure“! [...]
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