trade-mark

The Obama Effect on IP

Howard Knopf
November 06, 2008 00:29

IP-Watch has a good analysis of the likely direction of the Obama administration here. IP-Watch also speculates on some Obama appointments here. Although a Democratic administration is likely to be very sympathetic to the wishes of IP owners and rightly so, there is reason to hope that the Obama...

VANOC's Excessive IP Efforts

Howard Knopf
September 28, 2008 05:27

There’s a big fluff over VANOC’s trade-mark application for WITH GLOWING HEARTS. See the Globe and Mail story, for which I was interviewed, here. Far be it from me to defend the overly zealous - indeed excessive - Vancouver Olympic IP effort, but actually, it was a "normal" trade-mark app...

Red cross trade-mark dispute

Mala Joshi
August 10, 2007 12:18

Health-care company Johnson and Johnson has sued the American Red Cross in a Manhattan Federal Court over the right to the "red cross" mark on ancillary products such as humidifiers, medical examination gloves, nail clippers, combs and toothbrushes.The parties entered into a co-existence agreement...