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While my guitar gently weeps

Likelihood of Confusion

2004), and the question of. One of the first posts on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® was about Gibson Guitar Corp. Paul Reed Smith Guitars, LP, 70 UPSQ2d 1911 (M.D. The post While my guitar gently weeps appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

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The plaintiff, SSPL, had filed a lawsuit against the defendant NTC in the Bombay High Court, alleging Copyright and Trademark Infringement. SSPL was incorporated in 2004. When SSPL was incorporated in 2004, SK Oil Industries had assigned it the label’s copyright. Plaintiff’s Arguments. Concluding Remarks.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Using trademarks in domain names, linking, framing, meta-tagging, and framing are a few methods that could lead to trademark challenges. Cybersquatting is another type of trademark infringement. A fundamental tenet of trademark law is to avoid consumers being confused about the origin or source of products or services.

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Conquering Likelihood of Confusion in Pharmaceutical Trademarks

Corsearch

Name saturation is an existential challenge for every industry that harnesses trademark law to protect its brand. A study published in 2018 found that overall incidents of drug name confusion of all types had decreased when comparing two periods, 2000-2004 and 2012-2016 1.

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An Explorative Study on the Liability of Domain Name Registrars with reference to Trademark Infringement.

IP and Legal Filings

However, the same process does not include any examination or verification to determine whether the domain name is distinctive or capable of distinguishing itself from the competition, i.e., existing domain names that are clearly in violation of trademark law. Indian Trademark Act, Section 29(4) (1999). 1125(c)(2)(B) (1996).

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Ping® by AdlerLaw A Note On Protecting Descriptive Words

LexBlog IP

“The first step in determining whether an unregistered mark or name is entitled to the protection of the trademark laws is to categorize the name according to the nature of the term itself.” Platinum Fin. 3d 722, 727 (7th Cir. ” Int’l Kennel Club of Chi., Mighty Star, Inc., 2d 1079, 1085 (7th Cir. Sullivan v.

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Protecting Digital Identities: Trademarks, Domain Names, and the Menace of Cyber-Squatting

IP and Legal Filings

Pramod Borse [9] , the plaintiff was the registered owner of trademark “Bisleri” and the defendant had registered an identical/deceptively similar domain name “Bislari.com”. After examining the facts, the court held that the owner of trademark had the exclusive right to register the trademark as a domain name under the trademark law.