Intellectual Property Law

On May 27th, this logo was filed for a t-shirt line

Sixteen days earlier, this mark was filed, also for clothing, though I can say right now the USPTO is going to take issue with the wording in the goods description area.

So who gets it? Swine Flu Sucks filed first BUT Swine Flu! has claimed a first use date of May 12th. I'll revisit these marks in a few months once the applications have been reviewed. The decisions made by the USPTO will make for an enlightening post, I think.

Also filed in May were two marks by the health care products company, Novartis for "vaccines for human use." Swinflunov and Swineflunov certainly imply that they're connected, somehow, to the swine flu.

Full post as published by TradeMark Express: A Daily Blog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).