A decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to create a category for medical marijuana has fired up companies seeking protection for their product and business names.
Gucci America’s mistaken belief that its former top lawyer had an active license to practice law isn’t enough to shield documents from discovery based on attorney-client privilege, a magistrate judge…
The Wall Street Journal has sent a flippant reply to the New York Times over its claim that the Journal stole the Times’ tagline, “Not Just Wall Street. Every Street.”
You might think Indiana officials would have learned a lawsuit lesson from the Dillinger Museum. After a seven-year litigation saga, tourism officials in Hammond…
A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction barring the owner of a lingerie and sex-toy shop from calling his business “Victor’s Secret” or “Victor’s Little Secret.”
In an impressive demonstration of the power of online social media and journalists’ devotion to their work, a conversation among three friends in a San Francisco bar earlier this month…
Hershey Co. has filed a Lanham Act claim against a well-known supplier of upscale kitchen accoutrements, contending that a brownie pan being marketed by Williams-Sonoma Inc. violates trademark law by…
A divided California appeals court has revived a malicious prosecution lawsuit against Manatt Phelps & Phillips concerning a 1998 federal trademark dilution and false advertising complaint it filed against the…
An aggressive law enforcement probe of an Apple iPhone prototype that reportedly was forgotten by a company employee at a California bar was sparked by a complaint from an O’Melveny…
The former general counsel for Gucci doesn’t think he deserved to be fired for working at the company while on inactive status, and he explains why in an affidavit filed…
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