Category: Trademark

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

The technology news website Fusible reported on June 30 that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) denied a cybersquatting complaint Nintendo of America had filed against the owner of the website WiiU.com. Wii U is the name of Nintendo’s latest video game console, but the video game website Kotaku reported that WiiU.com was actually registered

Jonah Peretti, the founder of the viral content website BuzzFeed, told the Atlantic in an April 2012 story discussed some of the ways that the popular website avoids copyright infringement issues. In addition to licensing fees BuzzFeed pays to Reuters, the Associated Press and Getty Images for use of their libraries, Peretti argued that a lot of

On Monday, we discussed a lawsuit filed by filmmaker Jennifer Nelson that seeks to have a court declare the song “Happy Birthday to You” to be in the public domain. That New York Times story noted that another filmmaker, Steve James, had to pay $5,000 to use the song in the 1994 documentary “Hoop Dreams,”

Last November, we discussed a Forbes column authored by Eric Goldman in which the Director of the High Tech Law Institute and Associate Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law noted that “there have been countless trademark lawsuitsover competitive keyword advertising” during the last dozen years, but most trademark infringement lawsuits fail. On May 14, Goldman wrote