An allegedly unauthorized alumni association of the Takoma Academy has agreed to stop using the school’s name in promotional and fundraising materials as part of a settlement in a trademark infringement lawsuit.

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It's official: We are now on Monkey Selfie Lawsuit Watch!!

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A federal judge heard closing arguments Thursday in an Ocean City-based trademark dispute over the use of the word “Shorebilly.”

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Organizers of two of the biggest comic-book conventions in the country are clashing over their names.

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The federal agency doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue — the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Nor is it an entity that often finds itself enmeshed in a hot-button political dispute. Yet Wednesday’s ruling by the board to cancel the Washington Redskins football team’s trademark protection for its nickname, on the grounds that it is disparaging to Native Americans, has brought attention to the obscure agency and its work.

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The Baltimore advertising executive who created the “Show Your Soft Side” billboards to help stop animal abuse has settled her federal lawsuit against the city over ownership of the campaign.

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The U.S. Patent Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that the team's federal trademarks for the name must be canceled.

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A College Park author will appeal a federal court ruling that director James Cameron did not take ideas from screenplays to create the blockbuster film “Avatar.”

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A new oral history offers details on how Baltimore's CFL team became the Stallions and not another horse more synonymous with Charm City football.

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The dispute over an Ocean City brewery’s use of the word “Shorebilly” could be a two-for-one special after a federal judge separated the trial into two phases last week.

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