New IP Bully Award Nominees

by Philip Zies

Major League Baseball – for opposing two applications filed with the PTO by Mattingly Hitting Products, Inc., Don Mattingly’s sporting equipment and apparel company, to register a logo (pictured below).  MLB alleges a likelihood of confusion with its “Silhouetted Batter Logo” (source)

Global Findability – for suing Summit Entertainment, the producers of the sci-fi flick, Knowing (2009) (Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne), for patent infringement.  The suit alleges that the fictional film infringes U.S. Patent No. 7,107,286 for an “integrated information processing system for geospatial media” (source).

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