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Crackberry Trademark Registrations Refused by Trademark Trial and Appeal Board – Parody not a Defense

By on March 14, 2012 in Dilution, Famous Trademarks, Likelihood of Confusion, Opposition, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Trademarks

In a precedential opinion, on February 27, 2012 the US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board sustained four oppositions filed by Research in Motion (RIM) against Defining Presence Marketing Group, Inc. (DPMG). Link to Case here. DPMG had filed four trademark applications, each for the mark CRACKBERRY.   Three of the CRACKBERRY applications were filed in [...]

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REDSKINS Trademark Dispute May Go to US Supreme Court

By on September 17, 2009 in Disparagement, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Trademarks, US Supreme Court

Attorneys for the petitioners who filed a complaint against the use of the term REDSKINS for the Washington pro football team filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari with the US Supreme Court on Monday of this week.In 1992, Suzan Harjo led seven Native Americans in petitioning the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) to [...]

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