As you may recall a number of years ago Mattel sued MGA Entertainment claiming MGA stole its trade secrets when it entered into an agreement with Carter Bryant, the designer of the Bratz doll.  If you are not familiar with the Bratz, they are dolls who are portrayed as teenagers and are distinguished by large [...]

On February 9, 2011 Ford Motor Company sued Ferrari S.p.A. for trademark infringement of its F-150 mark.  Ford has been using the F-150 name for trucks since 1974.  Ferrari chose to name its 2011 Formula One racing car the F150.  According to Ferrari it chose the name to pay tribute to this year’s 150 anniversary [...]

We have received a reader question from our August Newsletter http://mkgip.com/ajax/EmailPreview.php?RF_ITEM[]=Email$0@16;Email The reader asks:                 My company develops special formulations for customers that are typically using virgin plastic resins.  We replace that material with ours which contains various biomass, i.e., corncobs, sunflower hulls.  My question is how do we protect our formulations from competitors in [...]

 In June of this year, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the ruling in the case of Bilski v. Kapos, which as we all hoped, would have provided a clear definition, or test, of what is considered to be patentable subject matter. Unfortunately, the Bilski decision provided little guidance.       The Supreme [...]