Category: Intellectual Property

On June 19, the court in Bochum, Germany ruled in favor of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce in a trademark infringement lawsuit, according to Yahoo! Finance. The lawsuit involved the unauthorized use of the world famous Hollywood Sign and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which are both the Chamber’s licensed trademark properties, by Mensing department store in

After losing a trademark infringement lawsuit, Microsoft will have to rename its SkyDrive cloud storage service, according to PCWorld. In 2011, U.K. broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) alleged that SkyDrive was infringing upon the “Sky” portion of its name in a lawsuit filed on its behalf in the English High Court. Microsoft was unable to defend the

A U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California ruled in favor of World Marketing Inc.’s Visitor clothing line over surfwear giant Quicksilver’s VSTR apparel line in a trademark infringement suit, according to California Apparel News. Quicksilver was sentenced, after an eight-person jury found it guilty of infringing on World Marketing’s Visitor menswear label, to pay World Marketing