2015 Advertising Ownership Registration 
The TTABlog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Deemed a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT), applicant was banned from doing business in the United States from 2008 to 2015. Although it did not resume use of the mark for seven years, it commenced TTAB litigation with ARSA in 2016 regarding ownership of the mark. In May 2015, applicant was removed from the SDNT list.
The IPKat
DECEMBER 14, 2023
In Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria Limited neglected to renew their contract with actor and filmmaker Adewole Ojo to use his photographs for advertisements. The defendant has used the plaintiff’s song in an advertisement without the plaintiff's consent. The company was ordered to pay Ojo, ₦20 million (US$44 448) in damages.
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The IPKat
DECEMBER 16, 2021
While the High Court found Morison liable for trademark infringement as well as passing-off, the trial judge did not make a finding of copyright infringement, stating that as the designer of the device was not called to testify, copyright ownership was not sufficiently proven. NTA-Star used photos of Banire on their billboards.
The TTABlog
MAY 25, 2023
However, Applicant JBL failed to prove that this design has acquired distinctiveness, and so registration was refused on the Principal Register, but the Board accepted JBL's alternative amendment to the Supplemental Register. JBL pointed to its ownership of seven design patents for rocking chairs of the same or a very similar configuration.
The TTABlog
AUGUST 2, 2021
For only the second time since the CAFC's 2009 decision in In re Bose , the Board upheld a claim of fraud, ordering cancellation of a registration for the mark FUJIIRYOKI for massage chairs. William Shen, the CEO of Respondent ACIGI, filed the underlying application and then assigned the registration to ACIGI soon after issuance.
43(B)log
OCTOBER 4, 2021
WPI counterclaimed against Restellini and third-party Institut Restellini SAS – Documentation Centre alleging copyright infringement and false advertising. In 2015, the Catalogue Raisonné Amedeo Modigliani is henceforth transferred to Institut Restellini, being taken up with new methods, even more modern and scientifically extensive.
The TTABlog
JANUARY 26, 2024
The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark FREEDOM PARTY for "organizing and conducting dance parties" on the ground that Respondent Hyman was not the sole owner of the mark when he filed his underlying use-based application. Gilles , 115 USPQ2d 1296 (TTAB 2015). Edward Levy and Marc Padro v.
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