Considering whether to travel back in time 50 years to resolve a trademark question not considered by a jury when it found San Diego Comic-Con’s mark is enforceable, a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday questioned whether the term “Comic Con” was generic when first used by the decades-old comic convention.
Read moreLess than three months after California passed a landmark law that will allow college athletes to earn money from the commercial use of their likeness, the National Collegiate Athletic Association held its annual convention in the Golden State Thursday to address the elephant in the room.
Read moreRock singer Meat Loaf sued hotel operator Hyatt in Texas state court Monday, claiming a fall from a stage at a horror convention resulted in a 42-day hospital stay and the inability to perform music anymore.
Read moreNine Democratic presidential hopefuls gathered Wednesday at the 110th NAACP National Convention in Detroit for an open forum that touched on economic inequality, criminal justice reform, voter suppression and white nationalism.
Read moreThe Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved a $650,000 settlement of a free-speech lawsuit filed by a pornography-convention organizer who was kicked out the city-owned convention center three years ago on moral grounds.
Read moreThe nation’s largest gun rights organization played a pivotal role in President Trump’s victory in 2016. Three years later, the National Rifle Association is limping toward the next election divided and diminished.
Read moreAfter months of speculation and campaigning, Milwaukee was officially selected Monday to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention over fellow finalist cities Houston and Miami.
Read moreSAN DIEGO (CN) – San Diego Comic-Con asked a federal judge Thursday to bar the use of its trademark by
Read moreA six-person jury late Friday found San Diego Comic-Con’s trademark is valid and enforceable, and awarded the decades-old comic convention $20,000 in damages caused by another city convention’s use of the mark.
Read moreDuring closing arguments Thursday, San Diego Comic-Con’s attorney called the use of its trademark by Salt Lake Comic Con a “slap in the face” before asking jurors to award the decades-old comic convention $12 million in damages.
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San Diego’s international Comic-Con won a preliminary victory this week when a federal judge refused to dismiss its trademark case against Salt Lake City Comic Con.
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San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced Friday that the Comic-Con International convention has extended its agreement to host the popular event in San Diego until 2021.
Read moreA Texas federal judge tossed a pornography trade show organizer’s free-speech lawsuit against Dallas late Thursday on a technicality, concluding the wrong entity filed suit against a resolution banning the show from being held at a city-owned convention center.
Read moreUndeterred by last year’s failed sales-tax ballot measure to build the now-Los Angeles Chargers a new stadium, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer called Monday for a special election this November to raise the city’s tourism tax to expand the convention center, fix San Diego’s crumbling roads and solve a growing homelessness problem.
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