ConAgra Foods Inc. says a competitor's tea label is so similar to its Swiss Miss product labels that consumers are becoming confused.
Language education company Rosetta Stone Inc. and rival Topics Entertainment Inc. sued each other this week, alleging trademark infringement over use of yellow boxes with black lettering.
Maker's Mark Distillery, famous for the distinctive wax seal atop its Kentucky bourbon, is seeing red over what it considers a trademark infringement by some liquor competitors.
A trademark for canola-based biodiesel fuel that was the subject of an awkward industry tug of war a year ago is seldom seen because few U.S. retailers are selling the fuel.
A Paris court on Wednesday barred a Swiss-based cookie maker from using the term "from Champagne" on its packaging.
Internet telephone provider Nuvio Corp. said Wednesday it has sued navigational device marker Garmin Ltd. over the name of Garmin's new wireless phone.
A small design company in America has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that it is unfairly using the Bing name for its search engine.
After discovering the Pirate Bay logo hadn't been registered with the patent office, a Swedish company took the opportunity to claim it as their own in order to commercially exploit it.
Seen by millions of people worldwide, the ship design used by The Pirate Bay is one of the most recognizable logos on the Internet today.
Maybe Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, and maybe he didn't.
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles
A trademark ruling that a Malteser cannot be mistaken for any other chocolate ball "sends a shiver down the spines" of the owners of big brands, an appeal hearing has been told.
KRAFT has again denied the iSnack 2.0 launch was a marketing stunt. And it has emerged that the food giant applied to trademark names for its new Vegemite-cream cheese blend more than two weeks before the closing date of a national competiton to name the spread.
Fast food giant McDonald's on Tuesday lost an eight-year trademark battle against a Malaysian curry restaurant after the country's highest court allowed the latter to use the prefix 'Mc'.
The American fast-food giant McDonald's has lost an eight-year legal battle to prevent a Malaysian restaurant calling itself McCurry.
The word "tweet" may have entered the international lexicon thanks to an explosion in 140-word microblogging messages, but an attempt by Twitter's founders to trademark it has been rejected.
Trademark holders have already had first dibs when new domain suffixes are created, but many companies fear that if ICANN suddenly adds 500 suffixes to the domain-name system, they'd have to register their brands in each domain.
But third-party developers can still feel free to use it as long as it's used in a reputable manner. What's less okay is using the word "Twitter" and copying the design.
EXCERPT: It's dawg vs. dog in a wiener war in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
The sticky question of whether a chocolate bunny can be trademarked has moved one step closer to being resolved following a ruling today by Europe's top court.
Two members of a criminal gang were indicted on criminal charges on Wednesday after forcing an 18-year-old boy to replace a tattoo they claimed had infringed their "trademark".
About a month after an appeals court revived a trademark lawsuit over Google's keyword sales, another suit has surfaced in Texas.
Google and 47 other international corporations have been sued in a US District Court for trademark infringement over their use of the word "Android."
Last month we reported on an interesting trademark case between online marketing guru Jeremy 'ShoeMoney' Schoemaker and a Google employee named Keyen Farrell, who works as an AdWords Account Strategist.
The constant hunt for valuable Google AdWords keywords is akin to Search Engine Optimization - a dark magic that can become very lucrative for those that can figure out how to best their competitors.
Hamburger chain McDonald's has reacted with ire to a new neon sign outside a Swedish strip club in southern Sweden.
APPLE has taken action in the federal Court to challenge a decision by Australia's trademarks regulator over intellectual property rights to the term 'MacPro'.
n days gone by, motorcycle club the Hells Angels seemed to follow a legal code not found in any American law book. Anyone who crossed it would face judgment in shades of black and blue.
PepsiCo says a metro Atlanta company is illegally distributing a Mexican version of its soda in Georgia, according to a lawsuit pending in federal court.
A series of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages - known as an emoticon - has been trademarked in Russia, says a local businessman. Entrepreneur Oleg Teterin said the trademark for the ;-) emoticon was granted to him by Russia's federal patent agency.