562 ABA Journal Trademark Law articles.
Bidding had reached more than $40,000 on a motorized recliner seized after its owner was accused of driving the chair home from a bar while drunk.
But the eBay auction…
Nov 3, 2009 6:51 PM CST
It isn’t what an attorney would generally recommend to a client. But attorney Edward Harrington Heyburn says he was willing to risk litigation when he created a legal blog that…
Nov 2, 2009 7:35 PM CST
A group of pranksters called the Yes Men is facing a lawsuit for impersonating the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at a news conference.
The chamber is suing the Yes Men…
Oct 27, 2009 2:32 PM CDT
In an opinion that could point the way for a first-of-a-kind court ruling in the European Union, an adviser to the European Court of Justice says the use of a…
Sep 22, 2009 8:42 PM CDT
A federal judge has sided with Pfizer in an unusual trademark dispute over its erectile disfunction drug Viagra, granting a permanent injunction banning a New York man from towing a…
Sep 10, 2009 4:57 PM CDT
Seeing a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company create an animated desk-lamp character on the silver screen that apparently was based on its own actual lamp design didn’t bother a…
Sep 8, 2009 11:24 PM CDT
Lawyers frequently have been accused of tarnishing the reputation of the legal profession by filing frivolous lawsuits (McDonald’s coffee, anyone?), so when a tour boat operator recently sued a competitor…
Sep 2, 2009 3:50 AM CDT
A federal appeals court has ruled Paris Hilton may sue Hallmark for using her photograph and her trademarked catchphrase, “That’s hot.”
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
Sep 1, 2009 12:23 PM CDT
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has backed down from an earlier claim that a blogger critical of the investment bank was violating its trademark.
After sending a cease-and-desist letter earlier this…
Jul 17, 2009 5:54 PM CDT
Who’s the original Superdawg?
That would be the one in Chicago that’s been serving up frankfurters since 1948 on the city’s northwest side. And this Superdawg—a food TV favorite easily…
Jun 25, 2009 4:06 PM CDT
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa announced Friday that Twitter agreed to pay his legal fees and make a donation to his animal rescue foundation to settle his suit…
Jun 8, 2009 5:18 PM CDT
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has sued Twitter claiming that the microblogging site refused to take down an imposter’s page that contained “derogatory and demeaning” remarks.
The suit…
Jun 5, 2009 11:49 AM CDT
It’s not exactly a dog-eat-dog battle. On one side is Bay Quackers. On the other is Ride the Ducks.
Both companies operate amphibious vehicles, known as ducks, in the city…
Jun 3, 2009 6:42 PM CDT
Two Connecticut personal injury lawyers are suing Google, contending that the Internet search engine improperly sold advertising rights concerning their law firm name to a competitor.
When Internet users type…
May 27, 2009 10:01 PM CDT
Practicing intellectual property law at Pavia & Harcourt in the 1980s and 1990s offered U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor an early opportunity to demonstrate her legal eagle potential.
Representing…
May 26, 2009 11:13 PM CDT
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