Back when Navajo print was all the rage, the clothing chain released a whole line of products featuring the ubiquitous patterns, going so far as to sell panties they referred to as the "Navajo Hipster," which was a trademark violation (the tribe owns a bunch of trademarks relating to the word "Navajo") as well as being pretty gross.
In the Supreme Court case accepted this week, Nike (yes, that Nike, the famous sportswear company) sued a much smaller shoe company called Already, which does business under the name YUMS, for allegedly infringing one of its trademarks relating to the design of a shoe.
Columbia is the assignee of various trademarks related to the operation of See's Candy Shops, Inc. ("See's").
Entrepreneur Media has applied for more than 100 trademarks related to entrepreneurs, though it has abandoned some, like "You've Got Your Dream Now Get it Done".
The Patent and Trademark Office, which has not yet registered any of the trademarks related to Sept. 11, said it was still examining them to determine whether they qualify.
Under the new agreement Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, will own all of the trademarks related to the name and license certain trademarks back to Apple Corps for continued use.
HOPING to find a dark cloud's silver lining, and mine it, more than two dozen enterprising types have applied for trademarks related to the events of Sept. 11.
The dispute came to a head after Apple unveiled iTunes in 2003 and it wasn't put to rest until 2007 when it was agreed Apple Inc, the company dropped "Computer" from its name that year, would own of all the trademarks related to "Apple" and would license certain trademarks back to Apple Corps, including Apple Corps' granny smith logo.
In all, there are 110 trademarks related to food filed by Amazon Technologies, with a strong theme of quick fixes.
At the end of last year, MacRumors discovered that Apple once owned – and likely still owns -the domain name islate.com, after which we ran a search for U.S. and European trademarks related to the term.
Apple's portfolio of intellectual property is broad enough, for trademarks alone, to encompass several pages of the company's web site and, in April 2012, it listed 176 general business trademarks, 79 service marks, 7 trademarks related to NeXT products and services, and 2 trademarks related to FileMaker.
