by FriedlandVining | Mar 23, 2012 | Intellectual Property Blog
On Friday, a Federal Judge refused to dismiss General Motors LLC (GM) from a lawsuit over the use of Albert Einstein’s image in magazine advertisements, ruling that an Israeli University might have inherited the genius’s publicity rights. Last year, The Hebrew...
by FriedlandVining | Mar 13, 2012 | Intellectual Property Blog
Oprah Winfrey, Hearst Corp., and others were dismissed last week from a trademark infringement suit in New York federal court regarding the catchphrase “Own Your Power” after the Court determined that her use of the phrase was a form of fair use. The Plaintiff, Own...
by FriedlandVining | Mar 7, 2012 | Intellectual Property Blog
Almost four years to the date, the TTAB sustained an opposition to register the mark GUANTANAMERA for cigars for the second time, finding the mark primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive under Section 2(e)(3) of the Trademark Act. To deny a geographic mark...
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