Several key trademark applications for Second Life creator Linden Lab will be published for opposition over the next month. Applications slated to enter this phase include those for the marks: SL YOUR WORLD. YOUR IMAGINATION. SECOND LIFE GRID SL GRID SECOND 2ND LIFE Linden Lab has applications entering this phase for two logos (pictured right [...]
Posted in Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Minsky v. Linden Lab, Providers, SLART Cancellation, Second Life, Trademark Law, Virtual Law, Virtual Law Practice, Virtual Worlds & Games on September 16th, 2008 6 Comments »
Opening a second front in its dispute over “SLART” with artist and “SLART” trademark registrant Richard Minsky, Second Life creator Linden Lab has filed a Petition for Cancellation (.pdf) with the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeals Board seeking to cancel registration of “SLART.” Minsky has filed an Answer (.pdf). Trial (which, at the TTAB, is [...]
The first few weeks of the SLART trademark lawsuit between artist/”SLART” trademark registrant Richard Minsky and Linden Lab, et. al. have been busy, and culminated in a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by Consent (.pdf) governing Linden Lab’s short-term response to complaints about the use of “SLART” in Second Life. Minsky had originally sought (and was [...]
Stephen Wu (California attorney, Second Life’s ‘Legal Writer’, President-Elect of the SL Bar Association, current Vice-Chair of the Section of Science & Technology Law of the American Bar Association, and the guy who put me in touch with the ABA’s publishing people about writing Virtual Law) has set up a dedicated website for his 3D [...]
