Crunch time for Sanitarium in Granola trade mark dispute *

Australia - August 9 2012
It was a case of reap what you know rather than reap what you sow for Sanitarium as the NSW Full Court handed down a decision stating that the trademark "GRANOLA", an invented word, was capable of being used as a descriptive word given that it had become understood as a descriptive term in Australia.

Tetris ruling stacks up arguments against videogame clones *

USA - August 8 2012
Have you, like us, seen nostalgic Gen X-ers playing new versions of old arcade games on their smartphones and wondered whether these “clones” would sooner or later make an appearance on IP Whiteboard?