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... namely, MRI diagnostic apparatus." Despite the sophistication of the purchasers, the differences in the marks and the goods, and the distinctiveness of the word VANTAGE, the Board found the mark likely to cause confusion with the registered mark TITAN for "medical diagnostic apparatus, namely, ... not relevant. We must consider whether the marks TITAN and VANTAGE TITAN when used on the identified goods are confusingly similar. Dan Robbins & Associates, Inc. v. Questor Corp., 599 F.2d 1009, 202 ...

... case, the plaintiff was an applicant for employment at The Gap whose personal information was compromised when two laptops belonging to Vantage, Inc, the company that processed job applications for The Gap, were stolen. Going along with the vast majority of courts ... was fatal to the plaintiff's claim that he was a third party beneficiary to the agreement between The Gap and Vantage. Though The Gap was able to get off the hook in this civil litigation, it undoubtedly spent large sums of money on ...

... name of the service the company provides. Generic terms are not subject to trademark protection. In the case of America Online, Inc. v. AT & T Corp., 243 F.3d 812 (4th Cir. 2001), the court held ... to denote anything other than the trademarked good or service." Illinois High School Ass'n. v. GTE Vantage, Inc., 99 F.3d 244 (7th Cir. 1996). One redeeming quality of the definition is that "googling" is limited to using Google and not conducting searches in general. But perhaps Google's domination ...

... The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently addressed the standard for a declaratory judgment action in the context of trademark rights. In Vantage Trailers, Inc. v. Beall Corporation, 567 F.3d 745 (5th Cir. 2009), Vantage filed civil ... trailer, Vantage's design was not substantially fixed and definite when it filed the action. Even during the litigation, Vantage had made modifications to the external configuration or appearance of the trailers it was working to build. Thus, the court could not ...

... declaratory judgment action concerning the trade dress of a bottom-dump truck trailer design. In Vantage Trailers, Inc. v. Beall Corp., No. 08-21039 (5th Cir. May 8, 2009), the defendant Beall owned a registered trademark for the design of its bottom-dump trailer. It ... the Federal Circuit and a much older one from the 7th Circuit), the 5th Circuit held that Vantage "failed to meet its burden to show that its design was substantially fixed as to the potentially infringing elements, i.e ...

... as the forum for litigating the following case(s), as published by Justia: Thirty Eight Street, Inc. v. State Line LC, Case Number 1:2007cv02210, filed August 20, ... According to court papers filed August 20, Plaintiffs Thirty Eight Street, Inc., and Vantage Hospitality Group, Inc. (formerly Best Value Inn Brand Membership, Inc.) ... BEST VALUE INN, BEST VALUE (right), and AMERICAS BEST VALUE INN BY VANTAGE. Defendant State Line, LC, is reportedly a Hagerstown, Maryland-based entity. Defendant Bharat ...

... 67. Claim definiteness, as discussed earlier, depends on the skill level of a person of ordinary skill in the art. Miles Labs., Inc., 997 F.2d at 875. In software cases, therefore, algorithms in the specification need only disclose adequate defining structure to ... Decl. ¶ 17. Thus, the record does contain sufficient algorithmic structure to give meaning to the claim terms from the vantage point of an ordinarily skilled artisan. Thus, Mr. Sonnier supplied the only assessment in this record of the ...

... facing companies involved in subprime-related businesses, as well as early trends in subprime-related securities litigation, from the vantage point of lawyers who are at the front lines of the current conflict. II. Current Civil and Regulatory Proceedings A. Federal ... out of the sweep, FINRA barred two brokers from the now defunct brokerage firm, SAMCO Financial Services, Inc., and suspended a third broker for two years, for misconduct in connection with selling "inverse floater" CMOs to retail ...

... on behalf of the American Truckers Association, Barbara Windsor, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hahn Transportation, Inc., objected that the legislation would add costs to an already burdened industry. She commented that while the industry supports ... technologies as part of the solution to climate change. J. Stephan Dolezalek, Managing Director for Vantage Point Venture Partners, explained that Vantage Point has the largest position in the venture capital industry in the country, with ...

... an elemental expression of judicial restraint, which, in their deferential varieties, safeguard the superior vantage points of those entrusted with primary decisional responsibility. The clear error standard, for example, protects ... U.S.C. § 706 (2000); Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 843 (1984). Rational basis ... our government's elected branches. See FCC v. Beach Commc'ns, Inc., 508 U.S. 307, 314 (1993) (calling the standard "a paradigm of judicial restraint ...