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“Tebow-Mania” Already Rocking New York’s IP Scene

May. 06, 2012 / by Brian Roe / 0 Comments

Critics, linebackers, and Mark Sanchez are not Tim Tebow’s only competition. Tim Tebow has already found his name at the center of several hotly contested intellectual property disputes.  Before Tebow even received his new playbook from the New York Jets, a controversy erupted in federal court in Lower Manhattan between sports merchandise moguls Nike and [...]

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Chef Boulud Serving Up Infringement Lawsuit

Apr. 23, 2012 / by Steven Daroci / 0 Comments

Daniel Boulud, the world-renowned chef, is suing a Buffalo music club and restaurant for trademark infringement.  Boulud wants the owners of Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar to stop using the name DBGB, according to a lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Manhattan. Boulud’s complaint claims he claimed the name after he opened DBGB Kitchen & Bar [...]

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Keeper of the Pinstripes: From the Silver Screen to the Courtroom

Apr. 15, 2012 / by Marli Sussman / 1 Comments

To a group of movie investors, Keeper of the Pinstripes sounded like an ideal business venture. Capitalizing on nostalgia for old-timers Yankee baseball, the film was to depict the “interior and exterior of the ‘old’ Yankee stadium [for one] final public appearance,” and tell the story of “a mysterious room hidden within the depths of [...]

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Feb. 22, 2012 / by Chrissie Cahill / 0 Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, odds are you have heard of Jeremy Lin and the Linsanity bringing Madison Square Garden to its feet.  Thanks to Lin, the Knicks have won eight of their last nine games (the Knicks face the Nets tonight).  Lin’s story is one for the [...]

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That’s so not zen: Yogis suing Yogis

Feb. 03, 2012 / by Amy Dunayevich / 1 Comments

This blog’s tech editor started doing yoga recently. Sure she’s, like, 10 years behind, but late is better than never right? Knowing nothing about yoga she started sampling different studios and even tried doing Bikram Yoga which is the 90 minute, twenty-something poses in a 105-degree-room yoga. It was difficult! It was sweaty! But mostly [...]

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The Great Patent Case Experiment

Nov. 02, 2011 / by David Shamoon / 0 Comments

A new ten-year pilot program that directs patent cases to a select group of judges within each participating federal district is finally underway in the Southern District of New York.  The bills establishing the program took a few years to make their way through Congress, and the Southern District was selected back in June to [...]

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Attention design font-heads: The “9/11″ brand is in Gotham, not Helvetica.

Oct. 31, 2011 / by Amy Dunayevich / 0 Comments

Stop the train presses. The uniform font of the NYC subway system signage is Helvetica. But since the “9/11 memorial” has become its own brand, and is printed in its own font, NY historians and journalists wonder “where will [branding] stop?” Insert “subway stop” pun here. But as it stands, MTA officials do not believe [...]

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Don’t Mess With L.E.S.

Oct. 21, 2011 / by Emily Wolf / 0 Comments

“[A] litigious Clinton Street resident has waged epic David-vs-Goliath battles against corporate fashion brands eager to cash in on the neighborhood name. Unfortunately for them, Robert Lopez owns the trademark to ‘Lower East Side,’ and has since the mid-nineties. Previous legal pursuits to protect the grassroots brand included cases against J. Crew, Urban Outfitters, Payless [...]

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Even Spiderman’s Spidey-sense Can’t Help This Broadway Show

Oct. 06, 2011 / by Malhar Naik / 0 Comments

The oft-maligned production of the Broadway musical “Spiderman: Turn Off the Lights” will face off with former star, Tony award winner Julie Taymor in a battle for royalty payments.  Taymor argues she led development for the musical, while producers argue she was fired due to a breach of contract.

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NYC Is Trying to Protect Its Brand

Sep. 28, 2011 / by Tim Shields / 0 Comments

From AM New York: “City officials have taken extraordinary steps to protect the iconic ‘NYC’ name and other city trademarks — including NYPD and FDNY — by filing lawsuits, firing off hundreds of cease-and-desist letters and cracking down on merchants mixed up with counterfeit goods.”

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