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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. Trademark violation raises significant issues. Cybersquatting is another type of trademark infringement.

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Effect Of Non-Use Of Trademark

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Introduction Trademarks may include any distinctive sign or mark that contributes in differentiating goods or services those of the competitors. In order to maintain the owner’s rights, a trademark must be used and periodically renewed; otherwise, the proprietor might lose the validity and the right of enforcing the trademark.

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

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(I am unaware of any reported comparison, but I did find the latter compared to a toilet flushing and have seen the former’s trademark suffer indignities at times too ). Every sound trademark seems not only to signify something but to raise a question or two as well. 1 v OHIM , C‑329/02 P, EU:C:2004:532, paragraph 23).

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

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Moreover, as the 1987 report notes, IP litigation was very limited at that time, except for trademark law. Then in 2004, IIT Kharagpur’s Rajiv Gandhi School of IP came into being with generous funding from US billionaire Vinod Gupta. Out of those limited numbers, even fewer taught.