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... more expressive contexts.) Sachs also lost the dilution by tarnishment, and NY state dilution, claim, because Viagra is famous and "it is well settled that 'a mark is tarnished when its likeness is placed in the context of sexual activity, obscenity, or ... " the missile and distributing condoms, would thus be tarnishing. Comment: um, excuse me? How can Viagra be tarnished by being placed in the context of sexual activity, especially when the court's just concluded that reasonable consumers wouldn' ...

... even published studies. So what exactly happened? The study was suspicious anyway, since it consisted solely of telephone interviews with Viagra users who had been diagnosed with non-arteritic anterior ischemicoptic neuropathy ("NAION") and a case-matched ... the study's numbers were crunched? Yes. One of the study's "main findings" was "mischaracterized." The study claimed that Viagra users with "personal histories" of heart attack were at significantly greater risk of NAION. But in fact there was ...

... Pfizer sales rep Jamie Reidy's book "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman." I can't wait to see that one . . . the movie will be called "Love and ... at BNet writes: In the book, Reidy claimed he was the company's No. 1 Viagra salesman, and that he employed a comical variety of unethical tactics to make his ... Pfizer's internal logic for avoiding blame for the deaths of some patients who had taken Viagra. It was the exertion of the sex that killed them, Reidy claimed the company argued, not ...

Reuters: Pfizer appeals against Viagra trademark ruling in China: "Pfizer Inc. has filed an appeal after losing a lawsuit over the Chinese name for its impotence treatment Viagra, the U.S. drugmaker said in a statement on Wednesday. Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker, sued a Chinese firm over its usage of the brand "Wei Ge" or "Mighty Brother" in November 2005, but lost the case last month, Pfizer said." While Pfizer markets the anti-impotence pill as Wan Ai Ke in China, it is commonly called ...

Pfizer has been in a tenacious six-year battle defending its Chinese Viagra patent against twelve domestic drug companies who claim to have spent over US$12M to produce generic versions of the drug. In 2004, it ... 's would be victorious when the China State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) invalidated Pfizer's patent, saying it lacked relevant data to support Viagra's "specific therapeutic effect." However, Pfizer appealed and the Bejing High People's Court has issued a final judgment of patent ...

... to a case where a federal judge in Chicago has frozen respective assets and issued a temporary injunction against a Viagra and similar product spam operation responsible for sending billions of those Viagra and other messages that clog ... an electronic money network." Wailin Wong at the Chicago Tribune in Feds bust alleged spam network behind billions of Viagra e-mails, writes regarding the criminal liability of the spammers: "The FTC is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation but couldn't ...

... weighs in with an observation on the nature of freedom: I've always enjoyed the fact that people get angry over the use of sex to sell Viagra or condoms, but they are fine with ads that use sex to sell cars, computers, all sorts of chazzerai. I guess you can use sex to promote ... bill because parents on their own can't resist the peer pressure. Hu-lo, isn't that what we signed up for? Meanwhile Ignoto says that "no Viagra before 10 pm" is a loser because all the guys who need it are asleep by 930.

It seems that Viagra is now jumping into the blame game for divorce. Prior to the birth of Viagra and other male impotence pills, couples were faced with serious problems in the bedroom, which often times meant the road to divorce. Now, it seems that men who are taking this "miracle" drug, are leaving their wives because they have found their sexual stride in old age. While I don't know

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Tuesday that it has filed an appeal with Beijing's First Intermediate People's Court against China's State Intellectual Property Office decision to reject the company's Chinese patent for Viagra. Pfizer's efforts to obtain a patent for Viagra are seen as a test of China's willingness to protect the intellectual property rights of foreign companies, following

PENSION PROBLEMS: THE "VIAGRA EFFECT." "The widespread tendency in Brazil for men to remarry women several decades younger - called the 'Viagra effect' - is undermining the country's pension system, researchers warned Tuesday. The report, by Brazil's National Social Security Institute (INSS), showed that a trend of men in their 60s marrying women half their age was leaving a big pool of young widows collecting benefits for much longer than anticipated. . . . Under current laws, when a retired ...