Google Sues Leo Stoller for Racketeering


Steve Bryant says,

Ha! Google has finally sued Leo Stoller, the litigation-happy attorney who claimed (and forged documents to prove) that he owns the trademark "Google."

Stoller made the news in 2005 for successfully suing companies like Paramount and Northrop Grumman, claiming that he owned the trademark for "stealth" (as in "stealth bomber" and the godawful movie "Stealth").

Stoller has also claimed trademarks on the words "star lite," "dark star," "sentra," "stradivarius," "24-karat," "phalanx," "play the angle," and "chutzpah."

Link, NYT story with background.

Image (via Wikipedia): "Some of the claimed 'famous trademarks' in Stoller's Rentamark.com site when it was online."

Previously on BoingBoing:

  • Trademark troll Leo Stoller's terrible 2006

    Reader comment: Steve says,

    I typed the web address into the way back machine on archive.org and it turned up results for who Leo's site looks like from 2000-2006: Link. Also i thought some of these slogans he claims to own were interesting, especially "Absolute Power" since that is the Gym i go to in Brooklyn.