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Protection of Color Trademarks under the Indian Trademark Law

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2003 (27) PTC 478 Del. The post Protection of Color Trademarks under the Indian Trademark Law appeared first on Blog | Kashish IPR | Intellectual Property Rights Law Firm. Colgate Palmolive Company vs. Anchor Health & Beauty Care Pvt. For more visit: [link].

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Right of Publicity Part 2

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Arvee Enterprises in 2003. Jaitley’s right and pronounced that any person may be restrained from using the names of popular or well-known celebrities, when the particular name is a well-known trademark as envisaged under the basic principles of trademark law and thatcelebrity is entitled to use his name for commercial purposes.

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Can A Single Colour Mark Acquire Registration In India?

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He was unmistakably aware of the nuances regarding colours in trademark law. Broadly speaking, trademarks are of two types: traditional and non-traditional. [1] Notwithstanding the essence of this finding, this is too narrow an interpretation of the true spirit of trademark law. 2003) 27 PTC 478 at para 63.

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Can Celebrity Catchphrases be Intellectually Protected?

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Catchphrases in Copyright and Trademark Law Copyright law guarantees artists the protection of their creative work while allowing others to expand upon it through its legislations. Conclusion Indian intellectual property laws and judiciary’s position on the trademark of celebrity catchphrases is a bit shaky.

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Can Braille Be Registered As a Trademark?

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19] Being able to distinguish one’s trademark falls at the centre of the trademark law, as otherwise, it is liable to be rejected under Section 9(1) of the Act. Sowmya Krishnan, Registrability of non-traditional trademarks: A critical analysis , 6 IJRAR 914, 916 (2019). Joot Kist, Case C-283/01, [2003] ECR-I-14313. [12]

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

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The status of IP teaching and research was dire in many countries in the 1980s, suggested the participants in the ATRIP’s Regional Symposium on Intellectual Property Law Teaching and Research in Asia and the Pacific , held at Peking University, Beijing, in November 1987. Please let us know if any reader is aware of the same).

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Saving your Mark from Trademark Genericide

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Today, several generic terms that we use, such as ‘escalator,’ ‘xerox,’ ‘cellophane,’ sound common but were once protected as trademarks. ” For combating trademark genericide, conventional trademark enforcement measures have to be coupled with unconventional methods.

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