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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh is taking an aggressive approach to his celebrity publicity rights. He sued the mother of his children in May of this year because she agreed to appear on VH1’s TV show, “Basketball Wives,” even though the two had never been married. Details on defending celebrities’ publicity rights are available from a Los Angeles business litigation attorney. In his lawsuit, Bosh claimed that Allison Mathis violated his trademark and publicity rights by Mathis’s decision to appear on “Basketball Wives.” He essentially claimed that her appearance on the show would take away from his own stardom and that she should not be able to use his name on the show. Mathis never actually appeared on the show, as the company producing it decided against it at the last minute. The company’s decision may have come about as a result of Bosh’s lawsuit. His lawyers told the production…
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In an episode of the hit, 1990s TV show “Seinfeld,” Jerry asks Kramer whether the pizza place that Kramer is near is Famous Ray’s. Kramer responds that it is just Original Ray’s, to which Jerry asks whether that means Famous Original Ray’s or just Original Ray’s. It turns out that the conversation was not far from the truth, as two Ray’s pizza establishments are now facing off in Manhattan federal court over name confusion. Famous Original Ray’s is suing Famous Ray’s on false advertising and unfair competition grounds, stemming from the latter’s use of the name “Famous Ray’s Pizza.” Famous Ray’s pizza restaurants came into existence about 50 years ago and are located throughout the New York City area. Nearly 50 pizza places have some variant of Ray’s Pizza in their name, though only about a tenth of them are a part of the original chain. A Los Angeles business…
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Harry Potter fans throughout the world were abuzz about the mysterious website that author J.K. Rowling recently launched. Prior to June 23, the Pottermore website depicted two owls with a “Coming soon ….” message just above a signature of Rowling. Trademark registrations, however, provided clues as to what the author had in mind. Trademark registration information is available from a Los Angeles business litigation attorney. Warner Bros. filed the trademark application for Pottermore almost two years ago. The application mentioned providing users access to a global network, on-line chat rooms and bulletin boards so that they could interact with one another in real time. Many speculated that Pottemore stood for Potter Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Experience along the lines of immensely popular massive multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft and Happy Farm. Since its original filing, Warner Bros. has also filed protections for various products that would be associated with…
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