Category: Trademark

What's up with the PNM and sheep farms?

April 4, 2010 by Bertrand Bhikarry

I'm not a big believer in things Bible, but I must say I collect them. Among my favourites is a huge old leather-bound one delivered   to me by a good friend. He used read from it to the then bedridden owner - a septuagenarian now sadly passed on.

I hold it dear for various reasons; at times to check up on biblically derived outbursts from the good old George Umbala Joseph,  and also to pray for others who may be in places of power and Party. I also fully intend to use it for bringing comeuppance against any who write mean comments at the end of this post.

At first it was my fascination with the book of Solomon, but then the parables drew me in as I lost the testosterone and garnered the brain cells back, in a manner of speaking.

The parable which holds my attention now, on this Holy Weekend are the ones about the wolves in sheep's clothing, and the leading of the lambs to the slaughter. Eh? Well it had to do with Environment Tobago taking the good Dr. Keith Rowley, a PNM stalwart, to task for an infringement of the EMA's CEC process for his urgency in leaping a few fences to get his sheep farm going in Moriah, Tobago. {Read more}

Apple's iPad & Trinidad and Tobago

January 28, 2010 by Taran Rampersad

Karel (of the Caribbean Public Relations blog) was kind enough to point me at Apple May Face ''iPad' Legal Battle that states, "In July 2009, acting through a proxy, Apple first applied for the iPad trademark in Trinidad & Tobago, gaining it a 'priority date' to use in other international applications."

Colour me surprised. I've been watching and writing about patents, copyrights and trademarks for some time (normally on KnowProSE.com) and never thought that the grand multidimensional legal chess game of intellectual property would include Trinidad and Tobago. That'll teach me.

For those who are too lazy to click the links, Fujitsu has ownership of the 'iPad' trademark and Apple may face a legal battle if there can be confusion between the products. Of note as well:

...There are several other owners of 'iPad' trademarks around the world, including Siemens, which has the right to use the term for engines and servo motors; and Coconut Grove Pads, which since 2008 has had the rights to the term for padded bras.

Padded bras. And one of the nicknames that Apple's not-quite-a-netbook-not-quite-a-phone product has gotten is the iTampon. Some humor for you for bothering to read this: {Read more}