PALM BEACH, FL - On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the addition of “.com” to a generic word or phrase can be trademarked when it reviews “United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.” on Docket No. 19-46 with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The issue has reached the highest court in the country after lower courts reversed the decisions of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") and Trademark … [Read more...]
How Google Became the Most Popular Search Engine; Eyes on Innovation
NEW YORK, NY – In the early 1990’s, the Internet was in its infancy. At that time, a great majority of information on this new and interesting "World Wide Web" was from colleges and universities. With the growth of this vast amount of information came interest in a better way for finding things which birthed some of the webs very first search engines, many of which you’ve likely never even heard of. Some who used the Internet at that time might be more likely to remember more … [Read more...]
New gTLD Domain Operator Find.cars Search Service Granted Federal Trademark
PRESS RELEASE: WHY SEARCH WHEN YOU CAN FIND?® trademark encapsulates attitude, effectiveness of the internet’s premiere used car searching service. (COMMACK, NY) Cars Digital Inc., through parent company, Long Island Media, Inc. has announced the successful registration of a federal trademark WHY SEARCH WHEN YOU CAN FIND?® with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its Find.Cars service, establishing the phrase as a catch-all motto that encompasses the spirit … [Read more...]
Entrepreneurial Thinkers: Registering Your Own Trademark; Without Hiring a Lawyer
Many business owners and entrepreneurial thinkers would probably like to register a trademark but they think it’s too expensive or that you have to hire a few lawyers to get it done. Not so. Registering your own trademark is fairly easy to do provided you know a little about, well, what you want the trademark to be – That’s it. The process is easier than you might think. Now the office for Trademarks is the same office where you would file a patent, a much more complicated … [Read more...]