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Infographic | Trademarks 101: super bowl exclusivity

Olartemoure Blog

The National Football League (NFL) , organizers of the event, have created and grown the brand of the Super Bowl to what it is today. Arguably the most important sports event in the U.S.A., the Super Bowl moves billions of dollars, mainly through advertising. THE SUPER BOWL TRADEMARK in 1969 In 1969, the NFL trademarked “Super Bowl”.

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[Guest Post] Thrifted is the new black

The IPKat

Over to Theodora: Second-hand fashion and trademark rights’ exhaustion under EU law, a guide for brand owners to “wear” this new trend by Theodora Goula Every day, more and more consumers are joining the second-hand fashion movement. Let’s start exploring the above issues from an EU perspective, aiming to give some guidance to brand owners.

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Can Celebrity Catchphrases be Intellectually Protected?

IIPRD

Some classic examples of catchphrases in the commercial market include Nike’s “Just Do It,” KFC’s “Finger Lickin’ Good,” Thums Up’s “Taste the Thunder,” Redbull’s “Give you Wings,” among others. She trademarked the term in February 2007, and since then, it has become her “signature catchphrase.”

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Stripes vs Stripes: Adidas Loses Trademark Case Against Thom Browne

IPilogue

In a battle of the stripes, athletic fashion giant Adidas went head-to-head with American luxury fashion brand Thom Browne in a court case that tested the delicate balance between protecting a company’s branding and allowing for creativity and competition in the marketplace. If successful, Adidas sought $7.8

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Hashtags And Trademark

IP and Legal Filings

For starters, social media is become an essential marketing platform for the majority of firms. Second, social media platforms are always developing online marketing tools to assist firms in reaching out to present and future clients. Hashtags are basically a series of words or phrases separated by a hash (#) symbol.

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Inducing Infringement with the Skinny Label

Patently-O

And, for the most part, the content of the generic label is derived directly from the brand-patentee’s label. Once a brand drug is no longer patented, the fact that some of the drug’s uses remain patented “will not foreclose marketing a generic drug for other unpatented [uses].” Teva Pharms. 22-37 (2022). Caraco (2012).

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Overlapping Ranges in Claims and Prior Art Result in Invalidation of Patent on Transdermal Patch for Parkinson’s Disease

Patently-O

In 2007, UCB invented and marketed “original Neupro,” a transdermal patch for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease containing a dispersion of amorphous rotigotine and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), with the PVP functioning as a stabilizer. market in April 2008 (although it remained in limited use under a compassionate-use program).

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