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Burst.com Versus Apple

Trademark @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Finally, Apple has settled a long-lasting dispute with Burst.com over some of its iPod technologies. It all started in 2004, when Burst.com asked Apple to license a few of its patents, saying that those were at the core of the iPod. However, in January 2006 Apple sued Burst.com, arguing that the patents were invalid and […]

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UK Retailers Can Apply for Trademark

Trademark @ November 19, 2007 # One Comment

In 1994, the Trademark Act caused the British legal trademark approach to fall in line with the general EU Directive regarding trademarks. The Trademark Act thus forced the UK to handle trademark applications in the same way as in the rest of Europe.
It was thanks to this Trademark Act, that recently the UK Registrar of […]

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Lawsuit Against Google

Trademark @ November 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Google has been sued by an American university and a starting-up business in the US. Boston’s Northeastern University and the company Jarg, whose co-founder is associate professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, accuse Google of using a search engine technology that was developed and patented by them in 1997.
The patent, number 5,694,593, is dated Dec. 2, […]

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