PUBLIC MARKS with tags litige & trademark

Extrait de la décision citée par Spicy IP : "We are of the view that it is for the applicant (Candico) to prove that if the mark is allowed to continue on the register it would affect their right. In fact it is seen that after a cease and desist notice was issued the applicants (Candico) have only initiated a suit against the first respondents (Perfetti). It is clear that the applicant was not facing any legal threat and so cannot be said to be an aggrieved person."

A Beijing company called Gu Ge Technology sued Google China earlier this year, claiming that its Chinese name, "Gu Ge" was confusingly similar to its own name.

Girls Gone Wild vs. Girls Gone Wine

"Here was “Florida’s oldest law firm” accusing us of infringing on their client’s trademark and cybersquatting on their client’s domain? Wait a minute, we were here first! "

"A prominent Indian court has recently addressed for the first time the issue of parallel imports of intellectual property (IP) under Indian law in favor of a non-Indian IP owner."

DDP Settles Trademark Lawsuit Against Jay-Z July 25, 2007 (ce litige était mentionné dans un billet antérieur).

Formula One Licensing has failed in a bid to gain exclusive control of the descriptor 'F1'. FOL, which is the brand exploitation division of the Formula One group run by Bernie Ecclestone, made a trademark application for the abbreviation for a range of goods to the UK Trademark Registry. The application was opposed by the French racing website Racing-Live SA.

Irlande : Allergan has sued Ocean Healthcare Ltd, Convent Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin, over selling products under the sign "Botoina" which, it claims, infringes Allergan's "Botox" trademarks.

The Las Vegas Visitors Authority has won a ruling in U.S. District Court protecting its trademark slogan "What Happens Here Stays Here."

"both Shiloh, 11 months, and mom Angelina Jolie, 31, have filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to block Hors Lá Monde Corp., a jewelry-design and fragrance company, from naming its latest perfume Shiloh."

Giersch and Google also are in legal disputes in Norway, Switzerland and Monaco

Lico Leasing, a Spanish company working on the finance sector under a registered trademark "LICO", filed a claim against Lycos Espana Internet Services S.L. to stop the use of the trademark "Lycos" in Spain and the domain name lycos.es.