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Apple gets lawyers in over 'pod' companies
News It's not the first time Jobs and co have come over all precious regarding their trademarks. Mach5Products also applied for a patent on the name in 2004, which Apple has opposed and requested the company abandon in its lawyers' letter. [15 Aug 2006]
GPLv3 gets public airing
News Stallman fielded several detailed legal questions from open source contributors on several topics, including licence compatibility; the patent retaliation clause; trademarks; and issues that arise when GPL software links to non-GPL software, such... [18 Jan 2006]
New online tools will slash £290m in red-tape
News A new web-based application form for trademarks will reduce administrative time and costs. More use of electronic filing, registration and search systems at agencies including Companies House and the Patent Office could save businesses £290m over... [30 Nov 2005]
Linux founder defends trademark action
News Torvalds' has also recently been accused of hypocrisy, with some in the open source community claiming his criticism of software patents is contradictory to his enforcement of trademarks. Florian Mueller, who campaigned against the EU software... [22 Aug 2005]
Excel finally gets registered
News Curiously, a glance at Microsoft's own trademark list shows that company has not officially registered trademarks for some of its most popular brands, including Office and Word. Microsoft has posted an online guide to using the trademarks and names... [12 Nov 2004]
Will Google lose right to Gmail name?
News Our unregistered trademarks include: AdSense, AdWords, Blogger, Froogle, Gmail, I'm Feeling Lucky and PageRank. The search giant is fourth in line to be considered for ownership of the trademark name, Gmail, according to filings with the US Patent... [16 Aug 2004]
Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
White Paper The Report, written by the IITF Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights chaired by Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Bruce A. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. [20 Apr 2004]
Google pet shop lawsuit gets go ahead
News The legal status of trademarks used in sponsored link advertising remains murky. But Hurley let the trademark case against the search firms proceed, noting that because Novak had succeeded in obtaining a trademark registration from the US Patent... [07 Apr 2004]
Microsoft wins 'HTML application' patent
News Microsoft has been awarded a patent by the US Patents and Trademarks Office on writing Windows applications in HTML, making it possible to bypass the built-in security that browsers offer. According to the application, the patent (no.covers writing... [11 Dec 2003]
BT on the edge of an i-mode nervous breakdown
Comment They registered UK trademarks on 16 different versions of the word i-mode - using upper case, lower case, with a hyphen, with a dot, with both and with neither. Surely such compulsive lawyers would have registered a European patent, too. [15 Dec 2000]
Ask the Lawyer @ silicon.com
Comment The practice of including the trademarks of others in the code for a Web page - called meta-tagging - to attract business is a clear infringement of rights. The answer depends to an extent on whether the product is covered by a foreign patent or... [05 Jun 2000]
