Word: lawsuits
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...simulates a glass of beer: put the phone to your lips, tip it and you can "swallow" the beer. He dropped the price as part of a presidential sale on Election Day but said he'll raise it again soon to test his theory. Sheraton, who's filed a lawsuit against Coors for creating an iBeer knockoff called iPint, declined to say how many copies his application sold...
...Wise’s strategy is more radical. He once listed a dolphin named Rainbow as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against an aquarium, and he hopes to establish animals as legal persons in future suits—he argues that if corporations and ships can already be persons before the law, it is absurd that animals cannot. Wise believes that until animals achieve legal personhood, even the strongest welfare laws will be undermined by animals’ property status—right now, there is no such thing as “animal rights law” he notes...
...Harvard. James G. Ashe, who works for the Harvard Trademark Program, said that Harvard “does not necessarily have to have the trademark registered in all goods and services in order to protect the mark from unauthorized use.” Last month, Harvard won a lawsuit against a Philippines-based jeans company that printed “Harvard Jeans USA, Cambridge, MA, Established 1936” on apparel without license from Harvard, even though the University has not registered trademarks there...
...spokeswoman Renee Rashid-Merem says the money is kept separate from the company's cash reserves under an agreement approved by the U.S. District Court in Detroit, which resulted from a "friendly" lawsuit that was part of the process that created the trust. The money can't be used for anything other than retiree health care. "We can't access it," she says...
Rather than risk exposure to the sun, MICHAEL JACKSON settles lawsuit with Bahraini prince...