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25/05/16
Three’s a crowd – Tinder sues threesome App 3nder
It appears Match Group, the owners of dating app Tinder, have or are shortly intending to launch trade mark infringement action in the UK against new threesome rival app 3nder. Tinder reportedly issued a cease and desist letter to 3nder in December 2015 demanding that 3nder shut down its website and remove all references to...
24/05/16
Facebook and Instagram win UDRP dispute concerning confusingly similar registered domain names in China
On 10 May 2016, the Administrative Panel of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the “Panel”) made its decision in relation to complaints filed by Facebook, Inc and Instagram, LLC concerning alleged infringements of their respective trade marks. By way of background, Facebook is the registered owner of the trade mark “FACEBOOK”, which was first...
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24/05/16
Brand protection – it’s not child’s play
Two children’s toy manufacturers have gone head to head in a trade mark dispute heard before the Federal Court of Australia. The dispute arose when Australian company Playgro alleged its PLAYGRO trade marks were infringed contrary to s 120(1) of the Trade Mark Act 1995 (Cth) by Playgo Art & Craft Manufactory and Playgo Toy...
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23/05/16
The Power of the McTrademark!
Giant global fast-food conglomerate McDonalds has successfully opposed the registration of “McKosher” in Australia. Although McDonalds do not have a registered trade mark in Australia for “McKosher”, McDonalds argued that many of their registered and unregistered trade marks incorporate the prefix “Mc”, which are of the ilk, ‘McFood’ where the element ‘Food’ is variable...
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17/05/16
Playing the Trump Card – The Role of Trade Marks in the US Election
Say what you will about Mr Donald Trump – he never loses sight of a business opportunity. Back in November 2012, immediately after Mitt Romney lost the election to Barack Obama, Trump applied for the trade mark ‘Make America Great Again’, a slogan first used by Ronald Reagan who successfully campaigned in 1980 with the...
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16/05/16
Tats not fair…Who really owns your tattoo?
Solid Oak Sketches, a small agency that represents tattoo artists, is suing Take-Two Interactive and Visual Concepts, the digital games companies behind the NBA2K video game. Solid Oak Sketches claims the companies have infringed their copyright by featuring eight of their tattoos in its basketball video games since at least 2013, with one of the...
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11/05/16
Updates on Cases
There’ve been some developments in cases we’ve previously reported on. Here’s an update on the latest. Battle of the Giants: Oracle v Google The multibillion dollar copyright retrial case between Google and Oracle was back in court on Monday, to be heard before a jury. The case focusses on the Google Android OS, with Oracle...
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