chain of title
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Just Another Skirmish or the War?
Registrant’s goods Cancellation action Paul Audio, Inc. v. Zhou is just one glimpse of what clearly is a much larger dispute. Baoning Zhou, an individual, is the owner of a registration for the mark C-MARK for audio equipment. Petitioner Paul Audio, Inc., owned by Li Gong, had also applied to register the C-MARK mark for… Continue reading
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Check the Chain of Title, Please
Folks, really. Check the assignment documents before you file the lawsuit, don’t assume the face of the patent is correct: At some point soon after PBS Inc. filed its motion to amend, it was discovered that PBS Ltd., not PBS Inc., is the assignee and owner of the ‘651 and ‘039 patents. PBS Inc. is… Continue reading
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Bona Fide Purchaser in Good Faith
ZDNet reports that there will be a new “Commodore 64” computer. It’s being described in a press release (scroll to August 25, 2010 entry) as an updated computer in “an exact replica of the original beige chassis Commodore C64.” Original Commodore 64. Photo: Bill Bertram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pixel8).Photo licensed under CC-BY-SA But hat tip to whoever had… Continue reading
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Awesome Job by Ryan Gile at Las Vegas Trademark Attorney
Wow. Ryan Gile at the Las Vegas Trademark Attorney has written a 3,700 word tome, with diagrams, on the convoluted and complicated (an understatement) ownership interest in the trademark “Tropicana” for hotels. I can’t begin to imagine how long it took to write it, much less understand all the transactions before being able to write… Continue reading
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“New Discovered” Doesn’t Mean “I Just Now Went Looking”
American Plastic Equipment, Inc. claimed to own the copyright in toy action figures first manufactured by Louis Marx & Co. Defendant Toytrackerz, LLC made replicas and was sued. In its original decision (blogged here and here), the court found that there were two defects in American Plastic’s chain of title. The first break was in… Continue reading
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