Palin’s Favorite Store to Change Name

When Out of the Closet (California), a non-profit HIV/AIDS company, learned about Out of the Closet (Alaska), Gov. Palin’s favorite second-hand clothing shop, the California non-profit promptly demanded that Alaskan store change its name.
Ms. Arvold, owner of the Alaskan store, has agreed to change the name of her store by year’s end.

Naked M&Ms?

The Naked Cowboy, of NYC Times Square fame, (aka Robert Burck) has dropped his lawsuit against Mars, Inc. for trademark infringement.

Movie Titles in Conflict

This article is an interesting discussion of what happens when a movie studio objects to the title of another studio’s film.
An excerpt:
But glancing at the posters for Fox’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and the Asylum’s “The Day the Earth Stopped,” you’d hardly know the difference. And both have release dates scheduled for mid-December.
Well, [...]

OHIM To Cut TM Filing Costs

OHIM has announced that it will be cutting trademark fees for small and medium size businesses.  
Charlie McCreevy, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, told an audience in Brussels he intended to propose a cut in the application and registration fees for a community trademark before the end of the year. He said there would [...]

Lego Loses Design Trademark

After Lego secured a 1999 CTM registration of its 2×4 dimension shape lego brick, one if its competitors, Mega Brands (it makes Mega Bloks), successfully sought cancellation of the registration claiming it was functional.  
Lego appealed the cancellation.  Today the European Court of First Instance rejected Lego’s application to reinstate its trademark.
 
Lego had submitted details of [...]

Heineken Sues Novelty Company

Heineken USA Inc. has concluded that the novelty Heineken neon clocks violate its Heineken trademark. So it sued the Chicago-based collectibles firm Scott’s Brewery Collectibles, demanding a permanent injunction and treble damages.
The action, filed on Oct. 22 with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, charges that Scott’s has used “exact replications” of the Heineken [...]