#trademark

#trademark

In 2005, San Francisco Dykes on Bikes® submitted declarations from more than two dozen expert witnesses arguing that 'dyke' was not disparaging, but instead had become a self-referential term of pride and empowerment.

The Goodwood-built marque pipped Radio Caroline, Twinings and Cadbury to the top spot in a survey that drew around 2,000 nominations, with the public asked to choose the brands they felt had most shaped daily life in the UK.

David Herrera registered the brand name Pedro Piscal with a Chilean commercial regulator in 2023 and began selling his pisco in off-licences and restaurants. Herrera stated, 'We tried a few names and Pedro Piscal stuck.'

This trademark filing is a first of its kind because a sitting president is filing a trademark application through his private company for a name that's going to go on a public building in an honorary capacity.

The objective is to create exclusivity around a recognisable appearance that consumers associate with one individual. This prevents third parties from exploiting that identity without consent, particularly in commercial settings.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) - The Syracuse Mets have to chalk this one up as an error. The baseball team had previously announced plans to retire the "Syracuse Mets" name and unveil a new identity and brand for future seasons. After months of planning, the team's rebranding process struck out. The Mets' general manager Jason Smorol tells NewsChannel 9 | LocalSYR.com that the new name they had selected was already trademarked.

When Sam Dean, a journalist and author, learned Condé Nast had allowed the Gourmet trademark to expire, he snatched it up for himself and - along with four co-founders - relaunched it this month as a newsletter. They moved up the debut to coincide with the New Year and a New York Times piece announcing the project, which overlapped with a trip Dean had planned.

In a move perhaps unsurprising to anyone familiar with trademarks, the viral Clawdbot AI agent has a new, equally lobster-y name. The popular AI agent was originally named after the monster users see while reloading Claude Code. Then Anthropic came knocking, sparking a new name: Moltbot. "Anthropic asked us to change our name," Moltbot wrote on X. "'Molt' fits perfectly - it's what lobsters do to grow." On his own X feed, creator Peter Steinberger was more direct: "I was forced to rename the account by Anthropic. Wasn't my decision."

A self-described "rat pack" of five "food-loving journalists" just bought the trademark to the defunct food magazine Gourmet, updated it for the modern reader, and brought it back as an online newsletter-all without consulting the magazine's former publisher, Condé Nast. And if you didn't know that already, you might've been able to guess it from the publication's new wordmark. The logo looks nothing like what you'd expect from the magazine that shuttered in 2009.

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice including his famous catchphrase: All right, all right, all right from the movie Dazed and Confused in an attempt to forestall unauthorised use by artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal reported that McConaughey has had eight separate applications approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office in recent weeks, including film clips of the actor standing on a porch and sitting in front of a tree,

VIP argued that under the standard developed by the Second Circuit in Rogers v. Grimaldi 875 F. 2d 994 (2d Cir. 1980), an infringement claim against an expressive work must be dismissed unless a complainant proves the work "(1) has no artistic relevance to the underlying work and (2) explicitly misleads as to the source or content of the work."

The TWITTER and TWEET brands have been eradicated from X Corp.'s products, services, and marketing, effectively abandoning the storied brand, with no intention to resume use of the mark,

In September, OpenAI launched a way for users to generate a digital likeness of themselves they could use to create personalized deepfake videos. This is one of the core features in Sora, OpenAI's app for sharing AI videos inside a TikTok-style feed. The self-deepfaking feature was called "cameo," and with that standout feature, Sora quickly rose to the top of Apple's iOS download charts.

Dana says he was first alerted when a neighbor texted him a picture of the shop and asked whether Call Your Mother had opened a location in New Jersey. Dana and Moreira have trademarked the phrase "call your mother" for use as a deli, café, or restaurant, plus the rotary phone logo. Their suit argues that the New Jersey shop's continued use of the name Call Your Bubbi and a similar logo, even after a cease-and-desist letter sent in August, is "likely to cause consumer confusion and deception."

During its lifetime, JavaScript has had several names: During development, its name was Mocha. In the Netscape Navigator 2.0 betas (September 1995), it was called LiveScript. In Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 3 (December 1995), it got its most common name, JavaScript. Why that name? JavaScript was going to be a glue language for components written in Java. The first standard for JavaScript was published in 1997, hosted by Ecma International (called ECMA at the time).

Jaguar Land Rover has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the Rail Delivery Group, demanding the removal of the terms 'ranger' and 'rover' from rail tickets due to trademark infringement.

Apple Corps and Apple Computer engaged in a protracted trademark battle lasting nearly thirty years, culminating in a $500 million settlement allowing Apple to utilize the Apple name for music distribution.

The CAFC explained that 'failure to prove instances of actual confusion is not dispositive against a trademark plaintiff, because actual confusion is hard to prove.'

"Drove 2.5 hours Memorial Weekend just to get a fluffy," wrote Denise Leveu.