With trademarks, the early bird gets the worm. I’m often asked when is the best time to trademark a new business or product name. On one hand, entrepreneurs feel pressure to register a trademark right away before anyone else starts using the name. On the…
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Thanks to a new concessionaire company that has taken over at Yosemite National Park, the traditional names of hotels and other attractions are being changed, prompting anger from long-time employees and visitors to the park. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Aramark, the new concessionaire company that…
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Nvidia Corp. lost its claims against Samsung Electronics Co. and Qualcomm Inc. after a U.S. trade agency said there was no violation of Nvidia’s patent rights related to graphics-processing chips. The U.S. International Trade Commission upheld on Monday a judge’s October findings that cleared Samsung…
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The patent application describes special rubber ports over headphone and other openings to protect them from water coming in. Apple is applying for a patent for a technology that could allow the company to build waterproof iPhones in the future by protecting external headphone ports…
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How will Washington ‘explain registrations such as ‘Licensed Serial Killer,’ ‘Yid Dish’?’ The U.S. government has determined that as a federally registered trademark, the Washington football team’s nickname “Redskins” is “government speech” rather than private speech and, therefore, can be censored. So what, then, should…
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We have all been in that situation when you drop your phone and watch helplessly as it falls. As it crashes to the ground, panic usually sets in as you wonder how bad that screen is going to look. You pick it up and you…
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Toyota Motor Corp., which is interested in all sorts of mobility, has filed for a patent that could lead to a flying car. The application, published in the database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, covers a “stackable wing for an aerocar,” according to…
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According to a patent granted to Apple on Tuesday, iPhones, iPads and other branded equipment could one day sport onboard smoke detection hardware to alert users, and interested parties, of a potentially dangerous situation. Source: USPTO Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 9,123,221 for “Wireless device networks…
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After being denied an en banc rehearing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over a prior decision that kept intact Apple’s multi-million dollar patent trial win, Samsung has voiced intent to argue the case in front of the Supreme Court. Samsung…
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A Durham marketer and distributer of generic pharmaceuticals is facing allegations that a diabetes drug it intends to sell infringes on patents owned by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday,…
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