7-Eleven sues Nike over Air Max with Slurpee maker’s colors
7-Eleven has sued Nike in federal court in Texas, accusing the sportswear giant of copying the convenience store chain’s signature orange, green and red stripe design on a sneaker that Nike plans to release on July 11, known as “7-Eleven Day.” In its lawsuit (Case 3:26-cv-02201-X, N.D.Tex), opens new tab filed on Wednesday in the federal court in Dallas, 7-Eleven said Nike’s upcoming Air Max 95 shoe features a “confusingly similar imitation” of the company’s tri-color stripe branding, which it says consumers associate with the 7-Eleven brand.
Tesla filed Megapod TM for artificial intelligence infrastructure
Tesla filed an intent-to-use trademark for “Megapod,” describing a turnkey, self-contained modular AI data center hardware system. Reports suggest that Tesla has quietly filed a trademark application for something called the “Megapod.” As spotted in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filings, the name points to a massive, self-contained AI data center building block.
Lionel Richie has filed a trademark to protect his voice, two months after Taylor Swift did the same.American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie has filed for trademarks to protect the sound of his voice, including his well-known song lyric, “Hello, is it me you’re looking for?” Billboard reports that the disco and pop ballad hitmaker filed four applications at the US Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday (11 June).
China SPC Releases 2025 Annual Report on IP issues
On April 21, 2026, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) published its Annual Report on Legal Application Issues in Intellectual Property Cases of Courts Nationwide (2025) (全国法院知识产权案件法律适用问题年度报告（2025）摘要), identifying 45 legal application issues drawn from intellectual property cases concluded by courts at all levels during 2025.
EU justice overturned the EUIPO decision on the Obelix trademark
The General Court of the European Union, the court of first instance of the CJEU, has backed this Wednesday the publishing house responsible for the Astérix and Obélix comics against the registration as a trademark of the denomination ‘Obelix’ in favor of a Polish company dedicated to the manufacture of firearms, ammunition, and explosives…Consequently, the resolution indicates that this assessment cannot be limited, as the EUIPO mistakenly did, to stating that there are too significant differences between the affected products and services and that the respective audiences do not coincide.
