🔸 In 2009, the US Federal Court ruled that Taco Bell is liable for USD 42 million in a breach of Intellectual Property rights. The famous Chihuahua mascot and the line “¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!” used by Taco Bell in their early 1990s advertisement was pitched by two Michigan men and was used
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🔸 Louis Vuitton Malletier, a historic luxury house known largely for its monogram “LV” leather goods lost their trademark and copyright infringement case against Haute Diggity Dog, a dog toy brand for manufacturing dog chew, “Chewy Vuiton” toys mimicking LVM’s Louis Vuitton handbags
Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician and scientist famously credited with the development of the concept of calculus. But do you know Isaac Newton was not the first person to publish his work? The Calculus Controversy was an argument between the mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
🔸 Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. (the Applicant) applied to register their trademark in Classes 29 and 30 including milk products and coffee beverages. Starbucks Corporation then opposed the registration based on three relative grounds and two absolute grounds of refusal. Essentially, the IP
🔸 GoPro, Inc. has recently filed a notice of opposition before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (in the US) against Meifeng Chen’s application of “Highero” trademark for cameras, megaphones’ scanners etc in Class 9. GoPro reportedly claims that it owns several registered trademarks