Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog : Maryland Intellectual Property Lawyer & Attorney : Brian Wm. Higgins : Serving Baltimore, Columbia, Frederick

     Rockville, MD-based Yogiberry, Inc., filed an application for registration of the mark YOGIBERRY in the U.S. Trademark Office on March 11, 2008, which was approved for publication and subsequently published for opposition on September 2, 2008.  On November 21, 2008, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc., owner of several marks related to the Yogi Bear franchise of cartoons that first appeared on television in 1958, filed an opposition.  In its answer to the opposition, Yogiberry stated that its mark is related to retail frozen yogurt stores, and does not overlap with any goods and services associated with Hanna-Barbera's YOGI BEAR MARKS.  Yogiberry further stated that the parties' respective marks are not confusingly similar or likely to cause confusion amongst consumers or the trade.

     Yogiberry, Inc., is the owner of Registration No. 3498624 for the mark shown below, which was registered on September 9, 2008, based on an application filed February 4, 2008:

     In view of the above opposition, Yogiberry, Inc., and Pinkberry, Inc., filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland a stipulated motion to a stay their pending trademark litigation.  The parties' motion was granted.

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• Nacre AS v. Silynx Communications, Inc., No. 07-cv-02676, filed Oct. 2, 2007.

     Update:  Rockville, MD-based Silynx Communications and Norway's Nacre AS have been facing off on all fronts in their battle to gain control of the U.S. military tactical hearing protection and communications headset market, including the intellectual property front. In September 2007, Nacre, which owns the QUIETPRO trademark, filed a trademark opposition proceeding against Silynx's QUIETOPS mark before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. That proceeding was stayed when, in October 2007, Nacre filed a trademark and patent infringement lawsuit against Silynx in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, which is pending (additional counsel for Nacre just recently motioned for pro hac admission to the Maryland court). In January 2008, Silynx lost its protest of an award from the Dept. of the Navy to Nacre to acquire a quantity of combat radio headsets from the company.

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