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Trademark Law

Las Vegas Trademark Attorney

Covers a wide variety of trademark issues, especially in Las Vegas and the 9th Circuit.
By Ryan Gile

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Last Entry: May 24, 2010 at 14:15:00

An "ALASKA GROWN" trademark dispute

Posted on January 13, 2008
An Alaska Superior Court judge has ruled against an Alaskan farm organization in a dispute between the State of Alaska and the organization over the right to print the ALASKA GROWN logo (the ?Logo?) on T-shirts and other clothing items. See State of Alaska, Dept...

Barack Obama faces trademark infringement threat over ?Change Rocks? campaign slogan

Posted on January 10, 2008
In 2004, Stefan Doyno, currently a 19-year-old student at SUNY-Buffalo, came up with an idea for jewelry with interchangeable stones. As he states on his Change Rocks website, he got the idea for the ring after creating a homemade gift for his mother: "I wanted to create a high-quality, yet affordable ring that women could change to match what they were wearing or how they were feeling...

Proctor & Gamble Sues Private-label Distributor for Trade Dress Infringement over Herbal Essences

Posted on January 09, 2008
The Procter & Gamble Company ("P&G") has a history of aggressively enforcing its trademark and trade dress rights, especially against companies that create and distribute "private-label" products to retailers that are meant to compete with P&G products...

Jerry Seinfeld and wife Jessica face copyright infringement, defamation and trademark infringement lawsuit over cookbook

Posted on January 09, 2008
On January 7, 2007, Missy Chase Lapine (?Lapine?) and The Sneaky Chef, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Seinfeld for copyright infringement, defamation, and trademark infringement...

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A Trademark Lawsuit with a lot of ?Moxie?

Posted on January 04, 2008
On December 18, 2007, Moxie Java International, LLC (?Moxie Java?) filed a declaratory judgment action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho against Cornucopia Beverages, Inc. (?Cornucopia?) over the right to use the term ?Moxie.? See Moxie Java International, LLC v...

Bellagio Files Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Against Florida Condo Developer

Posted on January 04, 2008
On December 31, 2007, Bellagio, LLC (?Bellagio?), the owner of the world-famous Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against Bellagio Harbor Village Master Association, Inc...

Boston Brouhaha Between Big Sister and Big Brothers Big Sisters

Posted on January 03, 2008
The Boston Globe ran a story today (link here) about a trademark infringement lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on December 28, 2007, by the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston (?Big Sister?) against Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay (?Big Brothers?)...

Fourth Circuit Rules that District Court can compel Rule 30(b)(6) subpoena of foreign corporation

Posted on January 02, 2008
Filewrapper.com and John Welch?s The TTABlog both have good postings on the Fourth Circuit?s decision last week that a foreign corporation can be compelled to answer a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition subpoena arising out of a TTAB opposition issued pursuant to 35 U...

Ninth Circuit Upholds Ebay?s Victory Over Use of ?Search Smart? on Website

Posted on December 28, 2007
The Ninth Circuit today upheld a lower court?s decision finding that eBay, Inc?s (?eBay?s?) use of the name ?Smart Search? on its Internet auction website did not infringe on the registered trademark SMARTSEARCH held by Applied Information Sciences Corp...

?Reverse Cybersquatting? ? the dark side of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

Posted on December 27, 2007
In a previous posting (link here), I wrote about a flurry of trademark infringement lawsuits filed by 3700 Associates, LLC (?3700 Associates?) ? the developer of the Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino in Las Vegas ? against various named defendants. Based on the named defendants in one of the complaints, 3700 Associates appeared to be going after domain registrants buying up domain names that were similar to its THE COSMOPOLITAN RESORT & CASINO mark for which it has two recently received registrations (word mark and stylized mark covering real estate services featuring condominiums) as well as two pending applications (word mark and stylized mark covering vacation time shares, casino services, and resort hotels)...

Johnson & Johnson gets early Christmas gift from Third Circuit in its Splenda� trade dress infringement lawsuit.

Posted on December 25, 2007
On Monday, December 24, 2007, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that McNeil Nutritionals, LLC (?McNeil?), the Johnson & Johnson division that makes Splenda� artificial sweetener (a brand of the artificial sweetener, sucralose), can get a second chance at obtaining a preliminary injunction against Heartland Sweeteners LLC and Heartland Packaging Corp...

Trademarking Christmas -- Is Nothing Sacred?

Posted on December 24, 2007
A nice Christmas-related trademark story courtesy of The Huffington Post (link here), which writes about the following Christmas themed trademarks.The first two are held by Liberty Counsel (both for promoting public awareness of the legal issues relating to religious celebrations):HELP SAVE CHRISTMAS I (heart) CHRIST MAS (and design)The other mark mentioned is MERRY CHRISTMAS...