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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

Initially, neither the 1992 Law on Trademarks, Service Marks and Designations of Origin , nor the 1992 Patent Law , had provided that putting patented or trademarked goods onto the market within Russia exhausted IP rights. For this reason, the Peppa Pig decision cannot serve as a judicial precedent.

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Protection of Trademarks in Cambodia

IP and Legal Filings

Regarding the IPR matters, Cambodia has issued the following legal documents: • Law concerning Marks, Trade Name and Acts of Unfair Competition dated January 8, 2002; • Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs, in force since January 2003; • Law on Copyright and Related Right, in force since March 2003.

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Full Of Sound And Query, Signifying Something: Recent Noise Over Acoustic Trademarks

LexBlog IP

The TMEP lists ‘a series of tones or musical notes’ and ‘wording accompanied by music’ as two examples of potentially registrable forms of sound marks. 3618321), and “[t]he NBC chimes sequence [, which] actually became the first ‘purely audible’ service mark to register with the USPTO in 1950.”