by Michael Lee | Aug 31, 2015 | Brand Protection, Copyrights, Film / Television, Gaming, Pirated Thoughts |
This party was BYOL, bring your own lawsuit. A party celebrating the launch of PAX was cancelled after the party’s organizers were sued for copyright infringement by the company behind Pokemon trading cards. Pokemon Company International, Inc. is the creator,...
by Michael Lee | Aug 28, 2015 | Comics, Copyrights, Counterfeits, Film / Television, Pirated Thoughts, Trademarks |
Its not just topless women in Times Square raising eyebrows but nefarious version of Disney’s characters. Times Square has become a haven of unlicensed characters sporting dirty looking costumes, fowl mouths, and groping hands and New York Police Commissioner,...
by Michael Lee | Aug 27, 2015 | Brand Protection, Pirated Thoughts, Sports, Trademarks |
“W” stands for win in this trademark dispute. For the last three years, a start-up finance website has been fighting with two Major League Baseball teams about its trademark, simply the letter W. The Nationals and Cubs both claim trademark priority to the...
by Michael Lee | Aug 26, 2015 | Counterfeits, Pirated Thoughts, Trademarks |
This decision wasn’t finger-licking good for a chicken sandwich creator. The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a former employee of Church’s Chicken was unable to assert copyright protection in a chicken sandwich recipe that he created. You really...
by Michael Lee | Aug 25, 2015 | Brand Protection, Comics, Film / Television, Pirated Thoughts, Startups, Trademarks |
DC Comics have garnered a great deal of buzz recently regarding their trademark oppositions. In a story that went viral, and was broken by Pirated Thoughts, DC Comics recently opposed Rihanna’s attempt to register a trademark for her real name ROBYN claiming...
