In a case of dueling dentists, the state Business Court has found that the word ‘Carolina’ is something to be shared.

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Michael Jordan is taking a trademark dispute with a Chinese sports firm to China’s highest court. Last month the representative for the Hall of Fame basketball player said China’s supreme court will be taking the case of Jordan, along with ...

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When the yellow shield logo hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a trademark violation.

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Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP v. Von Drehle Corp. Plaintiff has filed a number of suits around the country alleging that defendant or its distributors infringed plaintiff’s trademark when they sold paper towels designed to fit into plaintiff’s enMotion paper towel dispensers. Plaintiff’s claim in this case is precluded by decisions in other courts that defendant’s actions did not infringe plaintiff’s trademark.

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Ray Communications Inc. v. Clear Channel Communications Inc. Although plaintiff communications company, which registered the Agrinet service mark in 1972 and has used it for radio broadcast of farm news, acknowledges it permitted certain uses of the Agrinet mark in some local markets by predecessors of defendant Clear Channel Inc., the district court erred in granting defendant summary judgment on the ground of laches to plaintiff’s trademark infringement suit.

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Family Dollar Stores, Inc. v. Overseas Direct Import Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-04-0103, 9 pp.) (Richard L. Voorhees, J.) W.D.N.C. Holding: The parties were engaged in settlement discussions, and when those settlement discussions broke down, it was reasonable for plaintiff ...

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Daniel Group v. Service Performance Group, Inc. Even though defendant's predecessor-in-interest, an Illinois corporation, was dissolved for nearly five years before defendant was incorporated in North Carolina, the shareholders of both corporations continued to use the . . .

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Internet marketing is nothing new, but a few attorneys in North Carolina are trying a tactic that has caught the attention of the N.C. State Bar. It works like this: A lawyer purchases a keyword or a phrase though Google's AdWords service so that when a consumer types in that keyword or phrase, the attorney's ad pops up on the screen along with the search engine results. Attorney J. Mark Wilson (pictured) believes the marketing tactic could lead to possible trademark infringement cases.

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Georgia Pacific Consumer Products LP v. Von Drehle Corp. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-01-0787, 26 pp.) (Hamilton, J.) No. 09-1942, Aug. 10, 2010; USDC at Raleigh (Boyle, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In this dispute over defendant von Drehle’s sale of allegedly ...

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