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According to an aricle posted on www.emediawire.com, a ten day extension has been granted in the case of Neuropathic National Council, Inc. vs. the State of Florida. The Tallahassee courtroom must decide if the practice of naturopathy should be allowed in the State of Florida, and who is the licensing authority for traditional naturpoaths, the Naturopathic National Council (as recognized by the federal government), or the State of Florida? Naturopathy involves a system of therapeutics in which neither surgical nor “inorganic” medical agents (i.e. pharmaceuticals) are used. The Naturopathic National Council, Inc. of Stamford CT is the only entity authorized by the federal government to confer a license to a Naturopathic Physician or Doctor of Naturopathy, N.D., under federal trademark registration No. 3,047,

According to an article on MSNBC.Com, Red Bull GmbH, the maker of the world’s top-selling energy drink, has gone to court to try to prevent the importation of bootleg Red Bull through Georgia, in violation of its trademark. Red Bull GmbH filed a lawsuit on September 22, 2006 in a federal court in Atlanta,accusing an import company of selling “gray market” cans of the popular energy drink in Georgia and elsewhere in the United States to be imported to consumers in Argentina, Ireland, and Poland. The lawsuit goes on to state that Kassir Import-Export Co. and Jihad and Ziad Kassir of Los Angeles “opportunistically” shipped in lower-priced “gray market” cans from overseas. Red Bull was launched in Australia in 1987. The privately held company has been a huge seller in the beverage industry since it arri

According to the Associated Press, a federal judge in Miami ruled against tennis star Maria Sharapova, finding that a Florida production company did not violate trademark laws by marketing a documentary on the athlete, despite her agent’s attempts to prevent distribution. The judge concluded that Byzantium Productions Incorporated was within the law in its production of two documentaries entitled “Anna’s Army” and “Russian Women’s Tennis.” In light of the judge’s decision, Byzantium can proceed with plans to distribute the documentaries in Japan and elsewhere, though the filmmakers maintain that the damage has already been done. The doucmentaries also include interviews with Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, and others.