Michael Jordan files lawsuit in China for improper use of his name
Chicago Tribune
Lin himself is applying for a trademark in the United States to the term "Linsanity", which is widely used to describe his meteoric rise to fame, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office website.

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Kodak, Linsanity, Pinterest, Pirate Bay: Intellectual Property
BusinessWeek
The filing came six days after Yenchin Chang, a 35-year-old Alhambra, California, resident with no ties to Lin, became the first to apply for a Linsanity trademark, according to the website. A second filing was made on Feb.

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Jeremy Lin Files Patent Office Request to Trademark 'Linsanity'
BusinessWeek
The filing came six days after Yenchin Chang, a 35-year-old Alhambra, California, resident with no ties to Lin, became the first to apply for a Linsanity trademark, according to the website. A second filing was made on Feb.
Chinese Ball Maker Owns Trademark on Jeremy LinMyFox Los Angeles
Lin's trademark bounce set to net top scoreAsiaOne
Jeremy Lin Applies For Trademark On LinsanityHuffington Post

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Experts say Apple has trademark weakness
Jakarta Post
At least 39 Chinese companies and individuals in recent years have attempted to register the two trademarks in categories that Apple has not, according to the China Trademark Website. Six, including a flashlight manufacturer, have gone so far as ...
Apple Fever Cools in ChinaCRIENGLISH.com

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Urals Firm Wants Rights to Playboy Condoms
RIA Novosti
Moscow Arbitration Court accepted two lawsuits from Ufa-based Tekhnoservis firm asking it to terminate Playboy Enterprises rights to the trademark, local news website Proufu.ru said on Wednesday. Playboy Enterprises should get to keep publishing its ...

Chinese Ball Maker Owns Trademark on Jeremy Lin
MyFox Los Angeles
As of Wednesday evening the website of the trademark office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) was failing to work properly. Risheng Sports's owner, Yu Minjie, couldn't be reached for comment. Articles in the local media have ...

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Jeremy Lin: Knicks breakout star stakes own claim to 'Linsanity' trademark
San Jose Mercury News
The filing came six days after Yenchin Chang, a 35-year-old Alhambra, California, resident with no ties to Lin, became the first to apply for a Linsanity trademark, according to the website. A second filing was made on Feb.
Jeremy Lin: a Chinese trademark?Financial Times (blog)
Lin's Knicks Close Five-Game Homestand With Victory Against Atlanta HawksBloomberg
Chinese Ball Maker Takes Trademark on Jeremy Lin's NameWall Street Journal (blog)
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Who owns JetBluePark.com? Not the Red Sox.
Boston.com
In order to win a domain name from someone who has purchased it, a company or person has to prove that it owns a trademark, that the domain is identical or confusingly similar to that trademark, and that the domain was registered and is being used in ...
A federal law could throw a curve ball in one man's jokeWink News
Great Moments in the Yankees-Red Sox rivalryNBCSports.com

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New Tool in Trademark Fights
Wall Street Journal
By ANGUS LOTEN Phil Michaelson embraced a new tactic in trademark battles—online shame—after he created a web cookbook last year for people to collect and share recipes. The cookbook let consumers save the instructions for making a certain dish by ...

Not just Apple: Facebook may face trademark issues in China
ZDNet (blog)
The company has already filed multiple applications related to the “Facebook” name, both in English and Chinese, according to the China Trademark Website. In the process, the company has discovered that some of them have already been taken, ...

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