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Cameras and Bicycles — Say Cheez!

January 31, 2012 Trademark

You’ve probably heard about the bankruptcy of Eastman Kodak Company.  Yes, everyone sees the irony in a once successful company famous for its technical innovations failing to keep pace with the rapid speed of digital technology.  Should we write off Kodak and leave it to the dry and dusty bins of history — as one […]

A Tale of (More Than) Two Brothers

January 31, 2012 Copyright

History, though sometimes a dry and dusty exercise, may occasionally teach important lessons in trademark law, and in common sense (a quality often found lacking in trademark attorneys).  Case in point: the dispute between Warner Bros. movie studio and the Marx Brothers, over the film “A Night in Casablanca”. Our story opens in 1947.  Groucho […]

Walmart Sponsors New Product Competition

January 31, 2012 Patent

Walmart currently is sponsoring a ‘get on the  shelf‘ competition to identify new products for sale through Walmart.com and its brick-and-mortar stores.  The contest rules require that applicants submit an entry form and a link to a YouTube video of the product.  After the entries are vetted by Walmart, links to the YouTube videos will be placed on the ‘get on […]

French Fries Sue Crabs…What Next?

December 31, 2011 Trademark

The owner of the popular Chickie and Pete’s (CP) restaurant chain, Pete Ciarrocchi, is on a tear trying to maintain his monopoly over the use of “crab fries,” a seasoned french fry product, which Philadelphia Magazine claims Ciarrocchi invented.  Not so says a handful of restaurants in the Maryland eastern shore who have orchestrated a […]

Patent Reform Signed into Law

September 30, 2011 Patent

On September 16, 2011 President Obama signed the ‘America Invents Act‘ into law.  More than five years in the making, the Act will have profound consequences for inventors, for companies whose employees create inventions and for persons accused of patent infringement.  Over the next several newsletters, we will bring you up to speed and explain […]

Descriptive Trademarks Before the Board: Apple Loses One

September 30, 2011 Trademark

When clients ask us to file a trademark application, one of the first things we evaluate is the strength of the proposed trademark.  Is it a strong, distinctive mark that will pass muster with trademark law, or is it a weak, non-distinctive mark that will inevitably be rejected by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)?   […]

LWH Tests Facebook’s Intellectual Property Protection Program

July 28, 2011 Internet Law, Trademark

Back in June 2009, we wrote about protecting trademarks under Facebook’s new URL redesign, which permitted a member to use a personal name as part of his or her Facebook address.  Aware that the redesign offered new opportunities for trademark infringement, Facebook simultaneously issued guidelines for protecting trademark rights should a Facebook owner steal a […]

LWH Reclaims Domain Name from Marchex Sales

June 29, 2011 Internet Law, Lipton Weinberger & Husick Blog, Litigation

Your trademarks are among your company’s most valuable assets; controlling them is a necessity for successful branding.  Domain names, particularly if they incorporate your trademarks, are part of your intellectual property portfolio and demand as much attention as your other assets. Sometimes, through no fault of your own,  another company owns a domain name, which […]

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