You know how Apple used to sue everyone with an "i" in front of their name? It looks like Fitbug is doing the same with the word "fit" as they claim trademark infringement against rival Fitbit. More...
Microsoft has filed the necessary paperwork with the USPTO to trademark "Blink", despite Google announcing at the start of this month that their new Chrome rendering engine will be called Blink More...
Microsoft has filed for two game-related trademarks in the past couple of weeks, one for something called Marlow Briggs and the other for a title named Gunpower. More...
Apple has been served with a lawsuit in the US by Proview who claims that it legally owns the trademark to the name "iPad". The two companies have previously battled over the name in China. More...
Apple cannot claim the trademark to the term iPad in China, following a court ruling that gave the rights to the name to Proview Technology who had previously trademarked iPad over 10 years ago. More...
Microsoft is seeking to trademark "Charms," the term used to describe the menu and its icons that appear on the right or bottom-left of the screen in Windows 8. More...
Following this Monday's WWDC revelation of iOS 5 and iCloud, it turned out that the iCloud name, which Apple purchased from Xcerion (who renamed their product to CloudMe) towards the end of April, was intended... More...
Microsoft says that the phrase "App Store" is too generic of a term to only be able to be used by Apple, and now is fighting for the right to be able to use the... More...
Facebook never ceases to make headlines, but this time it's not rolling out any new features or security updates. According to TechCrunch, Facebook has been granted the rights to trademark the word "Face." Within three months,... More...
One Melbourne business has found itself in a David-and-Goliath battle with Google over its name - Scoogle. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the eyewear business is locked in a trademark dispute with the search giant,... More...
Google has once again been thwarted in its bid to trademark "Gmail" in the European Union because of a similar trademark in Germany. The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) has just published... More...
Internet auction site EBay has blocked retailer Perfumebay.com from using a Web site address ending with "ebay" after an appeals court ruled it was trademark infringement. Perfumebay, a seller of designer perfumes over the Internet,... More...
The Cisco versus Apple trademark dispute still hasn't been resolved: Cisco is granting Apple's request for more time to reply to the lawsuit filed by the networking giant. "Cisco has agreed to give Apple an... More...
Hold the phone Apple. Get in line Cisco. When it comes to Canada, it turns out Comwave Telecom Inc. has dibs on the IPhone brand name. The Toronto-based company has been marketing a voice-over-Internet services... More...
Apple is more likely to reach a deal with Cisco Systems than to risk losing a trademark suit over the use of the name iPhone, experts say. In going to court, Apple would have to... More...
System Shock's rights to the spiritual successor may have been locked by Take-Two, but Electronic Arts is making sure the original franchise stays up. Electronic Arts registered a trademark last month on the title"System Shock"... More...
In a crucial legal loss for Linus Torvalds, Intellectual Property Australia has ruled that the term "Linux" is just too frequently used on the internet and was not distinctive enough to be trademarked. ... More...
Linus Torvald has trademarked the name Linux and has moved forward to ask companies using the name to pay a trademark fee. Late last week, an Australian company started pursuing companies using the... More...
By naming the next version of Windows "Vista," Microsoft may have stepped on the toes of another software company just down the road in Redmond. That would be Vista, a business software and services company... More...
Speaking exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz, Dan Morelle - managing director of online store ElectricBirdLand - has claimed the European launch of PSP could be delayed as Sony has yet to register vital trademarks. Morelle... More...
On November 12, Microsoft Corp. filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the Shadowrun mark. Although this doesn't confirm a game is in development, it is a positive sign for... More...
First "Windows," now "Excel." New York City-based software company Savvysoft says MicrosoftRelevant Products/Services from Microsoft has demanded that it drop the name Excel from its TurboExcel product, which makes Microsoft's Excel portable to other systems... More...
cybershark has reported in our Back Page News that Google, after its Gmail debut, does not hold legal rights to the trademark, yet. Normally, the registrations for trademarks are handled in a "first... More...
Looks like Linus Torvalds is going back to court, but this time he'll be in an Australian court room. Linux Australia Inc. has asked for the help of Linus Torvalds to once again save... More...
The networking software from Apple known as Rendezvous is now OpenTalk. This name changes comes after Apple has reached an agreement with Tibco Software. Last year Tibco Software accused Apple of infringing on... More...
By now just about everybody is aware of the on going lawsuit between Michael Robertson's abomination known as Linspire (Lindows) and Microsoft's Windows. Is Lindows violating the Windows name that Microsoft is best known... More...
A judgement against the Linux distributor could force the company to stop using its trademark and surrender its domain names, pending an appeal. (Uh-oh... -Ed) A French court has decided against Linux... More...
The US District Court in Seattle has ruled in favour of Lindows.com on key legal issues in the company's dispute with Microsoft. Lindows.com will be able to keep its trademark until the final decision in... More...
Dealing a potential setback to the Web search advertising market, a federal appeals court has reopened a lawsuit challenging the unauthorized use of trademarks in ads linked to search engine keywords. The Ninth Circuit U.S.... More...
Tibco Software on Thursday filed a trademark infringement suit against Apple Computer. Tibco alleges that Apple's Rendezvous networking software, used in Apple products such as the iTunes music service, infringes on Tibco's... More...
THE BIGGEST CHIP company in the known universe has caught a group of 17 artists in American town jeopardising its intellectual property by using the word "inside". A report in the Boston Globe said that... More...
The Yahoo! yodeler is crying foul. Wylie Gustafson, whose Yahoo yodel captured the freewheeling spirit of the popular Internet portal in TV and radio ads, has filed a $5 million lawsuit, claiming he... More...