Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Wednesday introduced the International Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement Act of 2008, legislation intended to crack down on the theft of U.S. intellectual property around the world.

San Francisco - The college-aged developer who created "Tris," a "Tetris" knock-off game for Apple's iPhone, is voluntarily removing the game from the App Store after Apple informed him of trademark and copyright claims it received from The Tetris Company, CNET News.com reported. "I'm a college student, and not an affluent one, and I simply do not have the time, energy, or resources to fight this battle right now," Tris developer Noah Witherspoon wrote on his blog. "I don't think this will be permanent; when I have the time and can find a good copyright lawyer, I'll be figuring out exactly what my position is and how I can make Tris available again."

New York - Following legal actions taken by toymaker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) to get "Scrabulous," a Web knock-off version of its "Scrabble" removed from the Facebook social network in the U.S., Mattel (NYSE: MAT) -- which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America -- has compelled Facebook to take Scrabulous down in most of the rest of the world, the Associated Press reports. The one region where Scrabulous remains available in India, where developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla reside -- but Mattel has filed suit against the brothers there as well.

New York - Newsgathering agency the Associated Press has settled the copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit it filed last October against news aggregation service Moreover Technologies and its parent company, VeriSign.

San Mateo, Calif. - CafePress, a service that allows consumers to create custom-branded merchandise from their own designs, announced on Wednesday that it has settled a trademark lawsuit filed against it by Hustler magazine publisher LFP, over use of the word "hustler" on items available through CafePress.

Los Angeles - France-based video game publisher Ubisoft has won a $13.2 million copyright and trademark infringement arbitration judgment against MGA Entertainment, owner of the Bratz doll franchise, Ubisoft attorneys Greenberg Glusker said in a statement.

Raleigh, N.C. - Lulu Enterprises, which operates Lulu -- an online marketplace where creators can publish, buy and sell digital content -- has filed a trademark suit against "Hulu," the forthcoming Web video distribution joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal.

San Francisco - A company that sued Google in 2003 for trademark infringement, over ads placed through its keyword-based online advertising service, has settled its lawsuit, Reuters reported.

Los Angeles - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which organizes the Academy Awards, last week filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the owner of the website Oscarwatch.com, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Arlington, Va. - "Star Wars" director George Lucas has filed a trademark complaint against news aggregation site Digg.com, which Lucas says is similar to "The Dig," a PC adventure game released in 1995 by his LucasArts games division.

San Jose, Calif. - Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems and Apple announced late Wednesday that they have resolved their dispute over the "iPhone" trademark, with both companies free to use the trademark on their products worldwide.

San Jose, Calif. - Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems has agreed to give Apple more time to respond to a lawsuit it filed last month, after Apple announced its iPhone product that bears a name for which Cisco owns the trademark.

Cupertino, Calif. - Apple Inc. on Monday announced that it has ended a long-running trademark dispute with Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, over the use of the name "Apple".