The issues of trademark infringement and dilution go “wild” *

USA - May 20 2013
Those of us in a certain age bracket will remember Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" television program that first began in 1963. The Emmy…

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The new generic top-level domains and the new Trademark Clearinghouse: deciding whether to register your brands *

Global - May 16 2013
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide. It recently began…

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Are Dr. Dre’s claims of likelihood of confusion and dilution enough to “beat” his opponents? *

USA - March 13 2013
Rapper Dr. Dre and the company he co-founded, Beats Electronics, LLC, are on the offensive at the US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board challenging a…

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David can beat Goliath in the trademark world… just ask Mixed Chicks! *

USA - December 7 2012
On November 2, 2012, a federal jury in the Central District of California awarded Mixed Chicks LLC, a beauty supply company for mixed-race women, www.mixedchicks.net, $839,535 in actual damages and $7,275,000 in punitive damages for willfully infringing the MIXED CHICKS® trademark and trade dress with its MIXED SILK line of products.

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How do you or don’t you state a case for a declaratory judgment in a trademark dispute? *

USA - December 5 2012
Ever since the US Supreme Court in MedImmune, Inc. v. Genetech, Inc., 549 U.S. 118, 127 S, Ct, 764, 166 L. Ed.604 (2007) threw out the “reasonable apprehension” test as defining the grounds for bringing a declaratory judgment action, courts have considered a wide variety of factual circumstances in deciding which meet the Court’s redefinition of “controversy.”

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