Nick Woodman founded the GoPro camera in 2002 as a great way to record footage while on a surfboard. His desire was to create a wearable camera that would allow him to capture himself and friends while out on the water. Initially, the camera company was called Woodman Labs. In 2004, the company sold its first camera, which was a 35mm unit called the Hero. They coined the phrase “GoPro Be A Hero” and later became known as GoPro Inc. Today they have a variety of offerings to satisfy any action seeker and have succeeded in their effort to merge…
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The king of supply chain logistics has made its way to the way you and came up with a fashionable idea for cutting the cost of making clothes. Amazon was recently awarded a patent for what they call “on-demand-apparel-manufacturing” that will create or make your clothing once it has been ordered. The Patent has the software designed to collect clothing orders internationally and then derives a way to fulfill them. Also, stated in the patent, “the orders can be organized by the computing environment into one or more groups of orders based on one or more productivity factors like size,…
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The American automobile manufacturer Lincoln and the China based company, Lynk & Co. go head to head on how their names sound alike. Lincoln plans to take legal action against Lynk & Co with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to block use of the Lynk & Co name in the United States. United States Trademark Law protects against such alleged consumer confusion and this matter may give rise to a trademark infringement case against the Chinese company. Lynk & Co. currently have two model concepts they would like to release next year in the U.S. What is unique about…
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Apple continues to wow us with yet another patent that provides insight into what they are working on. The company has invented a way to secretly call 911 using your fingerprint. The 911 patent was granted on technology that will sense the manner you are holding your phone in order to trigger the 911 call. Once the panic command is activated, the phone would provide the users’ location to responders and could also livestream audio or video off the iPhone. With this patented technology, if an attacker requires the user to unlock the phone, the user could comply and put…
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Amazon is back at it again and this time they seem to have their sights set on Blue Apron. Amazon has filed an intent to use trademark application for prepared food kits with the phrase “We do the prep. You be the chef.” Earlier this year, the online giant purchased Whole Foods for $13.7 billion but their involvement in this space dates back to 2013 with Amazon Fresh grocery delivery. The company also trademarked the phrase “Some eat to live. We live to eat” on their Wickedly Prime snack foods released earlier this year. #Trademarks #OmniLegalGroup #Intellectualpropertylaw
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On this day in 1940, Frederick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks, helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood. His invention altered American society’s eating habits, so that people could eat fresh food throughout the United States, especially during the summer and winter seasons. The air-conditioning unit also branched out to the military field hospitals and military field kitchens. Today, Jones is celebrated as the most creative African American inventor of our time. #patent #frederickmckinleyjones #USPTO #omnilegalgroup
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Omid Khalifeh of Omni Legal Group Named 2017 Southern California Rising Star by Super Lawyers Omni Legal Group's principal patent attorney, Omid E. Khalifeh, has once again been selected to appear on the 2017 Southern California Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers. Omni Legal Group is congratulating its principal patent attorney, Omid Khalifeh, on being selected as a Rising Star by SuperLawyers in the publication of the 2017 Rising Star list by Super Lawyers, which was officially released in July 2017. Super Lawyers is an honor that is reserved only for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice. Out of the…
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In April 2011, Even Spiegel floated the Snapchat idea in front of his class as a final project, the classmates focused on the temporary aspect of the potential product, and started the thought of temporary photos. Bobby Murphy was eventually brought into the project to write the source code for the application, and Picaboo first launched as an iOS-only app in July 2011. The application was relaunched in September 2011 under the name Snapchat.
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Highly acclaimed musicians Beyoncé and Jay-Z have recently filed trademark applications in the names of their newborn twins, Rumi and Sir Carter. Both applications were filed on June 26, 2017, around the same time as when the entire family returned home from the hospital. As we reported after the birth of their first child, they took the same precautions for the name of their eldest daughter, Blue Ivy. This month we discuss the importance of registering one’s intellectual property interest in a name by filing for trademark registration. The following is some important information business owners should know about trademark…
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