Las Vegas Trademark Attorney
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Too Many Cupcakeries
Ryan Gile at the Las Vegas Trademark Attorney does a fabulous job summarizing a new suit over ownership of THE CUPCAKERY trademark – it’s my favorite kind, a family feud. Is the REAL Cupcakery here – or here?? The text of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States… Continue reading
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Why You Don’t Allow Assignment of Trademark License Agreements
Here’s a case caption that gives you pause: “Hard Rock Cafe International (USA), Inc. v. Hard Rock Hotel Holdings, LLC et al.” Ryan Gile at the Las Vegas Trademark Attorney has done the heavy lifting on figuring out who sued whom and why. It’s a license relationship gone sour: the original trademark owner sold the… 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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“Who Owns Bratz?”
Be still my heart, my title is the opening line in the 9th Circuit decision about the long-standing dispute over the Bratz dolls, a title I have somehow thus far missed using. More background than you could ever want on the case is here. As we all know, MGA Entertainment lost in a big way. … Continue reading
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There’s Always Your First Name
From the caption you can guess the story in MacKenzie-Childs, Ltd. v. Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs: Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs started a business, didn’t have the business anymore, and then there was a dispute over who owned the name. The MacKenzie-Childs story is a little different from Joseph Abboud but still comes out the same.… Continue reading
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Sohmer v. Sohmer
Ryan Giles at the Las Vegas Trademark Attorney blog tells the tale of two claimants to the piano brand “Sohmer.” It’s a law school exam, and I think Ryan gets an “A.” Read it here. © 2009 Pamela Chestek Continue reading
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Who Owns “Black Sabbath”?
The Las Vegas Trademark Attorney gives us the jot and tittle of a dispute between Ozzy Osbourne and Anthony Iommi over the ownership of the BLACK SABBATH name. An interesting twist beyond the usual band name story, because Ozzy assigned the name to Iommi in 1980. What does it take to recapture ownership of a… Continue reading
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