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World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020 or how all roads lead to China (ii): trademarks, industrial designs and creative industry  

Garrigues Blog

WIPO’s report revealed that trademark applications continued to grow worldwide in 2019 – this time by 5.8%. In fact, this upward trend in applications worldwide has remained constant for the last 10 years, and the number of trademark applications filed each year since 2005 has quadrupled. Industrial designs.

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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

Gebi Products [10] , The Gala Company used the label mark “LAXMI” to market brooms. Brooms are one of the things that Gebi, another firm, began marketing under the name “MAHA LAXMI.” 4] Section 9(2)(b) of the Indian Trademarks Act, 1999. [5] Commercializing religion via trademarking god.

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Personal Names and Trademark Protection

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Further, the court held that the defendant was using and registered the ‘ELVISLY YOURS’ mark and his goods have gained reputation in the market. On the contrary, neither the trademark of the plaintiff had acquired distinctiveness nor has its goods have garnered any secondary meaning in the market. Section 35 Defense.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 31- August 6)

SpicyIP

Sabu Trade Private Limited vs The Registrar Of Trade Marks on 2 August, 2023 (Bombay High Court) The dispute pertained to the question of whether the Trademark Registry can make “typographical corrections” in registered trademarks? Case: Puma Se vs Girish Vohra and Anr.

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Supreme Court to Examine the Reach of the Lanham Act to Impose Liability on Conduct Outside of the United States

LexBlog IP

registered trademark may recover damages for uses of that trademark that occurred outside the United States and that were not likely to cause consumer confusion in the United States. Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., antitrust laws. 3d 107, 117 (1st Cir. ” Id.

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IP as Collateral

IIPRD

The risks include unauthorised use and infringement, technological obsolescence, and the marketable nature of IP as collateral. Trademark as Collateral in the US. In addition to registered trademarks at the USPTO, debtors can also pledge common law trademarks, which are trademarks not formally registered.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 28 – September 3)

SpicyIP

SpicyIP Tidbit: Some Strengthening of the Right to Information Act, 2005 From the Judicial Side Image from here RTI applications are often responded to with dodgy replies and incorrect information. Md Sabeeh Ahmad writes on the proposed changes to the timelines in the patent prosecution process. Dabur India Ltd.