Trademark battle: cash and Carey
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Grammy-winning pop  singer Mariah Carey is trying to block porn star-turned  politician Mary Carey from trademarking her similar-sounding  stage name, saying that fans could get the two performers  confused.
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By Thomas Ginsberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 9--Pleading hasn't worked. Freebies ultimately fail. Outright pressure can backfire.
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Disney Enterprises may have to sell its trademarks in South Africa to pay for damages if a poor family wins a lawsuit claiming it lost millions in royalties from the hit song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
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Cisco(R) and Apple today announced that they have resolved their dispute involving the "iPhone" trademark.  Under the agreement, both companies are free to use the "iPhone" trademark on their products throughout the world.
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Search Engine Keyword Trademark Infringements  On May 19, 2004, auto insurance company Geico sued Google and Overture for allegedly violating its trademarks in search-related advertisements, in the latest legal salvo against the Internet companies.  The insurer charged the two companies with infringing on its trademarks when they sold them as keywords to ...
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Google Faces Another Keyword Lawsuit  Another lawsuit has been filed against Google because of the trademarked keyterms that companies bid for in the AdWords keyword advertising program.  Next week Google will head over to a German courtroom where it will continue to defend its technology against Metaspinner Media GmbH.  Neowin reports ...
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By Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc. has a few more days to respond to Cisco Systems Inc.'s trademark infringement lawsuit that threatens to keep Apple from using the name "iPhone" on its much-hyped cell phone-music player.
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Blog: The companies are about to face off in a federal appeals court over their ongoing patent dispute.
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Tequila is suffering an identity crisis: The original poor man's liquor has earned status and trademark protection, but now must fight to defend its name and its niche in a fickle international marketplace.
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Microsoft said it will seek to invalidate claims by a company that has sued it for trademark infringement over the "Office Live" name.
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By Jordan Robertson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN JOSE -- For the third time in nearly three decades, iPod maker Apple Inc. has resolved a bitter trademark dispute with The Beatles' guardian Apple Corps Ltd. over use of the iconic apple logo and name.
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By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- "We can work it out." That was the message that iPod maker Apple Inc. and the Beatles' guardian Apple Corps Ltd. sent Monday in burying nearly three decades of trademark strife over the iconic apple logo and name.
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Apple Computer said it had settled its long-running trademark dispute with The Beatles over the use of &quot;Apple&quot; as a name and logo, raising hopes that songs by the Fab Four might soon be available as legal downloads.
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Apple Computer is slated to be in court this fall in England to answer claims that is infringing on a trademark agreement dating back to 1991.
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Forget about Tivoization. How about adding a clause to the next version of the GPL that counters Novellization? The clause would say (in proper legalese), that if any code infringes on intellectual property or patents held by third parties, and the third parties take legal action, the contributors of the offending code assume 100% liability.  In short, if Novell injects Microsoft IP into open source and Microsoft wants to sue, it must sue Novell and nobody else, because Novell assumes liability under this new license.  This would render any "promise not to sue the end customer" agreement with Novell meaningless.
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Interlink Electronics sues the game company, saying Wii's remote infringes on a patent for a "trigger operated electronic device." Plus: Homebrewers
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p2pnet.net News:- It&#39;s Apple vs Apple again - that&#39;s to say Steve Jobs&#39; Apple versus The Beatles&#39; Apple. Apple-B claims Apple-J infringes its trade mark and the latter, &quot;is likely to be forced into a multimillion