North Carolina Sued By Flying Dog Brewery Over Regulatory Body Refusing To Allow Sales Due To 'Offensive' Label

Normally, when we talk about beer in these pages, we're typically talking trademark infringement issues. Because of the creative way those in the exploding craft brewing industry have gone about naming their brews and designing their labels, far...

Turner Entertainment Forces Name Change Of 'Surrender Dorothy' Beer, Which Isn't Actually Referencing Wizard Of Oz

It won't come as a total surprise that we have covered intellectual property stories involving The Wizard of Oz in the past. Both the book and film are iconic to say the least, so it would perhaps be a bit strange if such issues didn't arise...

Protection Of Three-Dimensional Trademarks Pursuant To Turkish Law And European Union Legislation - Intellectual Property - Turkey

The appearance of trademarks may be illustrated in different ways with the current, rapidly growing technology and marketing opportunities...

Mariah Carey can't sell 'Black Irish' in Ireland due to earlier patent

Singer Mariah Carey is not able to sell her new liquor called Black Irish in Ireland or the EU

Solo Cup Company Got Artist’s Instagram Nuked for Using Famous Jazz Pattern

Christopher Locke makes art that’s a comment on our disposable culture. One of the brands he parodies got him removed from Instagram.

Scouts BSA Seek To End Girl Scouts' Trademark Lawsuit By Brazenly Claiming No Confusion Does Or Will Exist

We've been covering the lawsuit brought by The Girl Scouts of America against Scouts BSA, formerly The Boy Scouts of America, for some time. In the two posts that covered the suit, the GSA has alleged all kinds of very real confusion in the...

[Meme] Very International Patent Office...

As we shall see later this week, Latvia has some explaining to do

Foreign sales trademark case ‘ripe for SCOTUS appeal’ to fix split

The Tenth Circuit’s analysis in Hetronic v Hetronic Germany expands a circuit split, which could lead SCOTUS to accept cert if the defendants appeal

Greek God or Continent? Defining “Confusing Similarity” under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act | JD Supra

Examining whether a registered mark and a domain name were confusingly similar under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), the US...

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Spring tears down math geek t-shirt listing because it dared to mention the trademarked word 'zeta' - https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/data_scientists_riemann_zeta_function/ trademark madness

Polish companies willingly protect trademarks and industrial designs in the European Union

Despite the pandemic, statistics from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) indicate a growing interest in the EU trademark and…

Appointed Person considers status of international trade marks in the UK post BREXIT

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

Checks needed amid Chinese UK trademark boom: sources

Counsel from China and the UK set out possible reasons for mass filings at the UKIPO, the effect on the register and potential solutions

Tux: A brief history of the Linux mascot

Ever wonder where Tux the penguin came from? Jack Wallen offers up a bit of a history lesson.

Golden Bunny III: No retroactive application of EU Trade Mark Directive

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

John Deere announces $1.6 billion in third-quarter profits, enough to pay every UAW-Deere worker $160,000

Any talk from the UAW that claims their sellout contract is the best they can do is a lie.

Unilever Sends Letter To Firm In Israel Over Use Of 'Ben & Jerry's' Trademark

A couple of weeks back, we discussed 2021's thus-far dumbest controversy: Ben & Jerry's ceasing to sell ice cream in "occupied Palestinian territory". The ice cream maker is owned by Unilver and found itself in...