by Madan Law | Aug 10, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademarks
Amazon hopes to trademark the glowing blue ring of its Echo device. The blue ring is recognized as the face of Alexa, the intelligent personal assistant and voice of the Echo, and lights up when she’s listening, thinking, and speaking. Amazon filed the trademark...
by Madan Law | Jul 19, 2017 | Intellectual Property, Trademarks
Chicago-based chewing gum company, Wrigley, is suing an electronic cigarette liquid (e-liquid) company, Chi-Town Vapers, for using its trademarked brands, Juicy Fruit and Doublemint, to market their e-liquid flavors. Chi-Town Vapers was selling Dbl Mint E-Liquid and...
by Madan Law | Jul 13, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Trademarks
Mars Inc. is a global manufacturer of many popular food products, especially candy. They are most known for their Twix and Snickers chocolate bars; Big Red, Orbit, and Doublemint gum; and Starburst and Skittles candies. Did you know that they also sold supplements?...
by Madan Law | Jul 12, 2017 | Intellectual Property, Patent
Teenagers with a patent pending?! Susana Cappello, Carolina Baigorri, and Victoria Roca are high school students from Miami, Florida. When Susana heard students at her sister’s college were being drugged, she and two friends wanted to create something to alert girls...
by Madan Law | Jul 7, 2017 | Intellectual Property
What are trade secrets? They are a type of intellectual property. Trade secrets are “secrets”, or confidential company information, that may include formulas, processes, designs, and methods that are used in a business to give it an advantage over...
by Madan Law | Jun 23, 2017 | Intellectual Property, Trademarks
The Slants brought their case to the Supreme Court and WON! Back in January, we had written an article about the Asian-American dance/rock band’s six year trademark battle to register and protect their band name. Their trademark application for “The...
