The Apple settlement signals a new found respect for trademarks and patents in China.
Other professional athletes waited until much later to apply for trademarks.
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The bureau argued that only trademark agencies could represent clients applying for trademarks, and that the trademark law made no mention of law firms acting in this capacity.
And courts have sometimes failed to properly apply the legal requirements for trademarks, choosing to base their decisions on the outstanding celebrity and unique recognition of fictional characters, or lack thereof, instead of focusing on their inherent distinctiveness and ability to act as a single source identifier for the applicable goods or services.
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By my count, Augusta National holds or has applied for more than 50 trademarks, many for the same words and images but explicitly extending into multiple realms: refrigerator magnets, playing cards, desk sets, ladies handbags, pewter mugs, bowls "with and without lids, " nut-based snacks, you name it.
In that suit, Nike has accused Yum of infringing its trademarks for the Air Force 1 shoe design, a pattern Nike maintains it has marketed and promoted since 1982.
Systems integration company Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego offers a product called Open Source Monitoring that scans the Web, newsgroups, Listservs and any other public forums for names and trademarks.
We wouldn't be surprised if Apple has done this for numerous other trademarks, either to give itself more options or to prevent others from trying to manufacture products under those names. (Slate Computing, LLC also happens to own the "Magic Slate" trademark, just so you know.) Also bought up in 2006?
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Generic terms, for example, are not accepted, and trademarks are approved only for those who legitimately hold them.
The show earned McLane a Tony for one of his trademarks: the use of ordinary objects clustered in stunning ways.
Furthermore, the New York Times notes that Samsung filed for a couple of trademarks this year named "Eye Scroll" and "Eye Pause".
The royalty, paid for the use of trademarks on certain products among other things, would be raised in phases to 3.15% of Hindustan Unilever's annual sales by March 2018, the company had said.
But most of the big firms will probably go after brand names for which they already own trademarks and hold onto any registries they acquire.
Google submitted applications for 101 domains, including trademarks like .google and names that "have interesting or creative potential, " according to a company blog post published in late May.
It's also famous among golf companies for how tightly it controls its trademarks.
They'd assign Internet names and numbers as they have assigned trademarks in the past: for the usual fee.
Warner Brothers is a staunch supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and keeps a keen eye out for infringement of its own copyright and trademarks.
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Note that Dr Pepper Snapple owns the trademarks of its brands only for the continent of North America so it cannot invest in the emerging economies in Asia, Africa or South America.
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Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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News Corp. reportedly made its filing after lawyers for IMG warned the conglomerate that it holds trademarks on the name.
The fashion industry has historically sought and been granted protection for limited aspects of their products, like trademarks on logos and brand names, which are recognized as their property.
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In addition to the EULA and copyright allegations, Apple's complaint against Psystar has claims for inducing copyright infringement and infringing on Apple trademarks by advertising non-Apple machines as compatible with OS X which is exactly Open Tech's ploy here.
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More specifically, Google has repeatedly been sued for repeatedly stealing most every form of property: trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, contact lists, and private information.
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But it is almost impossible to underestimate the value that those trademarks had to the success of their companies for so many decades.
Enterprising companies sometimes use the serendipity of country code domains to make creative URLs for themselves or to protect real estate around their corporate trademarks.
Disney, for example, had serious reservations about its ability to protect trademarks in China.
The V, VIZIO, VIZIO Internet Apps, Theater 3D, CinemaWide HDTV, Full Array TruLED, Edge Lit Razor LED, 240Hz SPS, 480Hz SPS, Entertainment Freedom and Entertainment Freedom for All names, logos and phrase are registered or unregistered trademarks of VIZIO, Inc.
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Intellectual property (IP), which includes not only patents, but also trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, can be a critical asset for companies of all sizes, and is almost always a major focus in acquisition and licensing discussions.
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They think, for example, that a "challenge period" should precede domain name assignment, so trademarks can be protected.
For the purposes of marketing products, especially golf and golf-related products, those trademarks were snapped up long ago by an entity known as Augusta National Inc.
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