Trademark

If the startup OpenAI is feeling protective about its brand lately, it’s understandable. ThreatGPT, MedicalGPT, DateGPT and DirtyGPT are a mere sampling of the many outfits to apply for trademar

NFTs are no different than old-school physical assets in one important way: They’re governed by a legal framework which, in many respects, is rooted in the 20th century.

Fresh off a $17.4 million fundraise in May, GetHenry announced it is changing its name to Cycle, reflecting both the fact that the company makes bicycles and tricycles, and highlighting the company&#8

I was recently talking to a startup that was airing its frustration over Apple’s Tracker Detect app that enables Android users to find nearby, unknown AirTags. The problem? The company TrackerDe

How should a founder go about effectively naming their baby startup and avoid picking a name that will hurt them?

Platforms like Shopify, Stripe and WordPress have done a lot to make essential business-building tools — like running storefronts, accepting payments and building websites — accessible to

Let’s say you want to come up with a great brand name for a new beverage brand you’re launching. You know what consumers are looking for, and you’re the creative type. What’s the biggest namin

Pins, pins everywhere! Back in October, we reported on a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/04/pinterest-files-a-trademark-suit-against-social-travel-startup-pintrips-claims-pinning-buttons-confu

Pinterest raised a $225 million round in <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/23/confirmed-pinterest-raises-225-million/">October 2013</a> to help fuel its international expansion, but a recent rul

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.pinterest.com">Pinterest</a> has made a point of <a target="_blank" href="http://business.pinterest.com/brand-guidelines/">discouraging</a> the many social media co

Are the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.path.com">Path</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pinterest.com">Pinterest</a> logos too similar? Path apparently thinks so. The mobile messaging s

British Sky Broadcasting Group and Microsoft today announced that they have settled the trademark infringement arguments in Europe that Sky brought against Microsoft in an English court. As a result o

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft</a> went <a target="_blank" href="http://t.co/JiDdlmlid3">big on pushing cloud services</a> this week at its Build conference, but today it

Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple filed a trademark application for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple noticed earlier today, however, th

Apple and Amazon are fighting over made up words, as you may well be aware. Apple takes issue with Amazon's use of "Appstore," the name for the online retailer's marketplace of Android software, which

Europe's state railways continue to pick up steam in their lawsuits against <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com">Apple</a>. Today, it emerged that Russian Railways has <a target="_blank" hre

So here's a story that hopefully will be an eye-opener for entrepreneurs and startups, while providing a painful peek into trademark harassment and the importance of due diligence. It goes a little so

It was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/yuri-milner-dave-morin-sv-angel-crunchfund-and-more-hook-up-pair-with-4-2m/">less than a week ago</a> that Tenthbit, the developers of the buzzy, new

While Apple is busy fighting Proview over the iPad trademark in China, it has lost a different trademark battle in Europe: Wapple, the mobile web developers, have won a suit filed by Apple over its na

<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/timelines">Timelines Inc.</a>, a small venture capital-backed Chicago company that operates the <a href="http://timelines.com">Timelines.com</a> website, has