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whitepaper M.T.M.an Italian company that owns the BRC Gas Equipment trademark, was established in 1977 and has grown to become one of the top manufacturers of alternative fuel systems for motor vehicles. M.T.M.wanted to increase efficiency company-wide and...
[11 May 2008]
Comment That industry has recently been rocked by Google's decision to change its trademark protection policy for UK and Irish advertisers. Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark holder, the consumer or the law itself?
[30 Apr 2008]
News The World Intellectual Property Organization ousted a record number of "cybersquatters" from websites with domain names referring to trademarked companies, foundations and celebrities in 2007. The World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo), a...
[28 Mar 2008]
News asserted that the OpenSocial Foundation will be a standalone body, to the point that Google will relinquish its trademark on "OpenSocial" and the ownership of the website. and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial...
[26 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Founded in Charleston, South Carolina in 1947 as a Piggly Wiggly franchise operation, the Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company revolutionized grocery shopping in South Carolina and Georgia, bringing the company's trademark checkout stands, national...
[02 Dec 2007]
whitepaper The agency selected a range of Oracle SOA Suite applications to integrate the main KIPO database to its trademark database, ensuring information can be updated regularly from a variety of sources. The Korea Institute of Patent Information (KIPI...
[14 Sep 2007]
News The Linux Foundation, custodian of the Linux trademark, has announced two summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software. Attendance at the first summit will be restricted to members of the Linux Foundation and their...
[13 Sep 2007]
Photo In trademark black turtleneck, jeans and trainers Jobs built up to the big announcement gradually first unveiling a new feature allowing customers to create their own ringtones from songs in the iTunes Store for 99 cents before moving onto the...
[06 Sep 2007]
whitepaper Coca-Cola Femsa, S.A.de C.V.is the largest bottler of Coca-Cola trademark beverages - such as Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Lift - in Latin America. The company wanted to boost performance of application server infrastructure.
[05 Sep 2007]
CIO Profile Mike Bell's trademark is turning around poorly performing IT departments and at the end of last year Somerfield signed a landmark outsourcing deal with Indian company Tata Consultancy Services that marked the culmination of an overhaul of the...
[06 Jun 2007]
News Hurst added that the simple act of naming a public wi-fi network - a decision often not given much thought - could potentially open up the network owner to other complaints, such as 'passing off' and trademark infringement, depending on the wording.
[04 Jun 2007]
News Critics have argued that in practice, written evidence is required to pass that test, which has made it harder to overturn allegedly obvious patents and rendered it easier to obtain them from the US Patent and Trademark Office in the first place.
[01 May 2007]
News While it was a cute and clever name, it had issues around copyright and trademark, as well as internationalisation… The pun (to be 'frugal') isn't obvious. Google is rebranding "Froogle" as "Google Product Search" and simplifying the interface to...
[19 Apr 2007]
whitepaper The law firm of Banner & Witcoff specializes in intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, computer, franchise and unfair competition law. The firm wanted attorneys to retain their telephone numbers and...
[12 Apr 2007]
News Until 7 April last year, only trademark holders, public bodies and certain companies with prior rights could use the dot-eu domain. More than 2.5 million people and organisations have registered European Union domain names since dot-eu was opened...
[11 Apr 2007]
News And by iPhone, we mean Apple's iPhone, rather than Cisco's - the pair settled their trademark spat by agreeing to share the brand. The big names of the tech world dominated February's stories - with Apple, Google and Microsoft all featuring heavily...
[28 Feb 2007]
News A company called Office Live has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Microsoft over the software giant's use of "Office Live" for its on-demand productivity tools. Office Live, based in the Los Angeles area, registered the "Office Live...
[26 Feb 2007]
News Apple and Cisco Systems have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit over the use of the iPhone name for Apple's new multimedia phone. Cisco sued Apple for trademark infringement in January after Apple unveiled its long-awaited multimedia phone...
[22 Feb 2007]
News Both phones run on the latest version of Microsoft's mobile software, Windows Mobile 6, and come in Motorola's trademark skinny form-factor. UK users will soon be able to get their hands on two new versions of Motorola's Q smart phone - the company...
[13 Feb 2007]
News Google ceded rights to the Gmail name in the UK following a court case with Independent International Investment Research, which registered the trademark Gmail in the time between Google's webmail launch and the search behemoth's own attempt to...
[08 Feb 2007]
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