Blue Ivy’s Name Trademarked by Jay-Z and Beyonce

Blue Ivy. It's an unusual name to give a child. However, that's exactly what Jay-Z and Beyonce did when the singer gave birth to a baby girl last month. Blue Ivy was born on January 7th at ... continue

Poor RIM, just can’t seem to catch a break, is now being sued over BBX trademark

If there ever was a Charlie Brown of the tech world one would have to vote for it to be RIM. No matter which way it turns lately the company seems to be constantly kicking at the ... continue

The now iconic Steve Jobs Apple image is headed to copyright fight

That image you see above has, in a very short period of time, become the iconic image of Apple and Steve Jobs. It first started spreading around the web just after his passing away was announced and ... continue

Company Fails Attempt To Trademark “Casey Anthony” Name

Only days after Casey Anthony was handed down a "not guilty" verdict the company Grant Media filed a U.S. Trademark application on July 10 to "own" the name Casey Anthony and now we've learned that the trademark ... continue

Twitter Faces Uphill Battles As They Try To Trademark “Tweet”

There isn't a day that has gone by in recent memory where I haven't heard the word "Tweet" used in conjunction with someone's Twitter message, in fact I often use the word Tweet when reporting on someone's ... continue

Could Facebook’s lawsuit against Shagbook cost it the ‘Facebook’ trademark?

Yesterday James Johnson here at The Inquisitr shared the news that Facebook was launching a lawsuit against a site called Shagbook claiming that the site has infringed on their Facebook trademark. As James noted in his post ... continue

Facebook Sues “Shagbook” Over Trademark Infringement

Facebook has filed a lawsuit against "Shagbook.com" alleging that the site has infringed on their trademarked name and now Shagbook is firing back, claiming that "Facebook" is a "generic term." According to Facebook the site has: “The intent to ... continue

Apple gets offensive – goes after small startup for using App Store

It is a given that in order to protect a trademark, no matter how stupid that trademark is, that you have to exercise all legal due diligence to protect it; which in most cases means suing any ... continue

FarmVille and CityVille creator trying to take down BlingVille

A new Facebook game called BlingVille has apparently pissed off Zynga, the company behind hits FarmVille and CityVille, because it uses the 'Ville' suffix. Zynga - like the schoolyard bully it is - is preparing to take ... continue

No Tweet trademark for Twitter

There was a lot of fuss recently raised over the idea that Twitter was going to try and trademark “Tweet”, giving rise to a lot rumination over how this would affect all those developers out there that ... continue