566 ABA Journal Trademark Law articles.
A Portland, Ore., jury has awarded Adidas AG nearly $305 million for violation of its trademark for three-stripe shoes.
Lawyers at Kilpatrick Stockton who represented Adidas said the judgment against…
May 7, 2008 4:14 PM CDT
Internet keyword ads are a billion-dollar business, and many may be illegal
May 1, 2008 1:01 PM CDT
An athletic shoe company, a tire manufacturer, and even China’s largest dairy are sponsors of the New York Yankees. But a law firm?
That’s what nine-attorney Manhattan personal injury firm…
Apr 16, 2008 11:47 AM CDT
A federal judge has sided with a T-shirt maker in a trademark battle with Wal-Mart.
U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. has ruled that T-shirts and other paraphernalia with…
Mar 26, 2008 3:38 PM CDT
Polo Ralph Lauren has lost a federal appeal that sought to keep the United States Polo Association from using logos on apparel that featured two polo players on horseback.
The…
Mar 10, 2008 5:23 PM CDT
Low-Temp Locales Lay Claim to Worst Winter Weather, Slug It Out in Court Over Teeth-Chattering Title
Mar 1, 2008 8:05 AM CST
The singing Naked Cowboy has ambitions beyond winning his trademark lawsuit against the Mars candy company over a billboard featuring an M&M dressed in the same attire—or lack of it—that…
Feb 21, 2008 6:59 PM CST
Robert Burck has spent years developing his well-known persona as a seemingly naked cowboy playing his guitar in New York City’s Times Square. Now he is suing a major candy…
Feb 14, 2008 12:31 AM CST
The trial lawyers group once known as ATLA—the Association of Trial Lawyers of America—has sued a new lawyers group that calls itself The American Trial Lawyers Association, or TheATLA.
The…
Nov 30, 2007 3:35 PM CST
Computer maker Dell Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit that claims several companies violated counterfeiting laws by buying and selling Web addresses with misspellings of its name.
The lawsuit contends…
Nov 29, 2007 2:04 PM CST
In an unusual example of Chinese company resorting to litigation to enforce its intellectual property abroad, a Beijing curd maker has won a trademark infringement suit against a German company.
…Nov 26, 2007 7:19 PM CST
Music lost and humor won in two recent rulings in lawsuits filed by Louis Vuitton.
The luxury goods maker succeeded in getting a Britney Spears video showing Vuitton-like fabric pulled…
Nov 20, 2007 6:17 PM CST
A federal judge in Manhattan has begun to hear a closely watched case between a renowned jeweler and an Internet auctioneer accused of turning a blind eye to the sale…
Nov 14, 2007 9:46 PM CST
Musician Jon Bon Jovi is claiming that a new energy drink called Mijovi infringes his trademarked name.
In a cease-and-desist letter Bon Jovi’s lawyer protested the name of the drink…
Sep 11, 2007 3:05 PM CDT
“That’s hot,” is Paris Hilton’s trademark phrase, both figuratively and literally.
Those are the allegations in a lawsuit Hilton has filed over a Hallmark moment that was not a happy…
Sep 11, 2007 2:28 PM CDT
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