We can't imagine many people will be duped by the new, new iphone, but one thing we know for sure is that Apple ain't scared'a no trademark battle.
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Worse, the company's chief asset--its nifty software--still has no patent or trademark protection (see radar graph).
Two decades later Habring is independent and the Doppelchronograph design is no longer under trademark.
If you were the owner of the KOOL-AID mark at the time, it raised what certainly was no MICKEY MOUSE trademark problem.
In fact, the Patent and Trademark Office has no control over the revenue it earns.
It has also so far made no representations in another important trademark case now being considered by the European Court.
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.
There are no international-trade rules governing trademark rights, Mr Cornish points out.
No appearance of a Nike competing brand trademark or emblem.
Mr. Newman says he didn't have to ask Apple for permission to use the lowercase i and had no trouble getting iHospital registered as a trademark in the U.S. and Europe.
He was also seen as a loose cannon whose frequent barbs were no less dangerous because they were delivered in his trademark deliberate, slow staccato.
Diaz (27-8-0 with one no contest) never quit, but showed less of his trademark trash-talking.
Of course, and this is a topic for another day, no one is required to own a federal registration to use a trademark, and the absence of a registration does not prove a mark is unlawful.
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What is also clear is that copyright, patent, and trademark laws, standing quietly on their own, are no longer able to maintain the balance of incentives and protections that have defined these industries for hundreds of years.
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Although the firm's founders registered the Dagadu Djokdja trademark a few years ago, they say they have received no help from the local government in staunching the flood of pirated Dagadu products.
That's no mean feat when DMM looks to have been founded in 2012 and filed for the Matrix One trademark on June 8th, two weeks before we saw the device ourselves.
The Assassin's Creed video game series -- beyond its trademark murderous historical fiction -- is known for arriving in annual installments. 2013 is no exception, with French publisher Ubisoft recently revealing Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, a pirate-centric next entry in the long-running franchise.
Meanwhile, Aussie battler Lleyton Hewitt is out on Court Five and clearly means business as he prepares for his final-four clash with the defending champion Roger Federer - he has already put on his trademark back-to-front white baseball cap and is scampering around as though there is no tomorrow.
The duo made no attempt to disguise themselves: Dzhokhar's friends reportedly spotted him in crime photos in which he wore his trademark baseball cap turned backward.
The decision, issued on July 22nd by the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, concerned an application by the Nanjing Zishi Law Firm to register a trademark on behalf of a Chinese supplier of agricultural products.
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