The Canadian manufacturer of fine, fur-lined parkas, Canada Goose, recently sued Sears for trademark infringement. Apparently, the Sears parka bears a striking resemblance to the Canada Goose “Kensington” coat. The distinguishing features of the Canada Goose coat are its three-quarter length, fur-lined hood and circular patch on the upper right sleeve. According to CTV News,
Google released its most recent transparency report on Thursday, December 19. Google has included an extensive section on requests to remove content from search results that contain copyright infringement. The report contains an approximately 1 million row database of copyright infringement claims dating back to 2011. In just the past month, Google has received 23,235,747
According to the Guardian Liberty Voice, users of the popular video sharing website, YouTube, have noticed a sharp increase in the number of copyright claims flagged by their copyrighted content scans due to recent changes in the website’s Content ID system. The claims were mostly made against YouTube users who specialize in publishing footage of
GoldieBlox, a toy company specializing in engineering toys for young girls based out of San Francisco, has made concessions to the New York hip-hop group the Beastie Boys by removing a video featuring their song, “Girls.” According to the court papers, “the video advertisement posted on [GoldieBlox’s] website and other video sharing websites featuring the
According to the Washington Post, the United States Postal Service (USPS) falsely assumed that an image of the Statue of Liberty obtained from the online image library Getty Images was in the public domain. The USPS used the image of Lady Liberty for a popular “forever” stamp in 2010. A keen-eyed stamp collector noticed an
According to the National Crime Prevention Council, Google finally won an 8-year long lawsuit against a host of authors who claim that Google Books, an online library, illegally scanned millions of books. Google Books was born in 2004 with the digitization of university libraries, such as Harvard and Oxford. The lawsuit began in 2005 after
According to the Daily Mail, the Hells Angels have filed a trademark infringementsuit against Dillard’s and 8732 Apparel, accusing each of copying its logo. The Hells Angels, an international motorcycle club, owns four U.S. trademark registrations for its Death Head logo, a winged skull, which is used to signify membership. In its suit, the Angels’ allege
Global News is reporting that Canada Goose has filed a trademark infringement suit against Sears for allegedly selling knock-offs of its winter coats. In the suit, Canada Goose alleges that Sears Canada Inc. is passing off one of their parkas as a Canada Goose Inc. winter coat. “(Sears) is intentionally seeking to mislead consumers and potential consumers
Vermont-based Against The Grain Gourmet Foods has filed a lawsuit accusing California-based Against All Grain of trademark infringement. According to the Brattleboro Reformer, the suit was filed on October 11 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. In the suit, Against The Grain alleges that the California company’s use of the name Against
A new look has jumpstarted a trademark dispute between whiskey makers Jack Daniel’s and Popcorn Sutton’s, according to the Detroit Free Press. After Popcorn Sutton’s Tennessee White Whiskey started out being sold in Mason jars, an acknowledgement of the fact that Popcorn Sutton’s gets its name from and carries on the tradition of famed Appalachian
