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TTABlog Test: Are These Two Bird Design Marks Confusingly Similar for Clothing?

The TTABlog

In this battle of the birds, frequent TTAB plaintiff Abercrombie & Fitch opposed an application to register the mark shown below left, for various clothing items, claiming a likelihood of confusion with its registered design mark shown below right, for overlapping clothing items. 82 USPQ2d 1629, 1640 (TTAB 2007). Hard to swallow?

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

Kashishipr

The label in question was designed by an employee of SK Oil Industries. In May 2007, the label mark ‘SOYA DROP’ was registered. The argument that copyright protection and trademark registration were two different things and lacked connection and that an individual or entity couldn’t own both was wholly incorrect.

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Design Cancellation

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The registered owner of a design is granted unrestricted rights to their registered Designs in India. The right to cancel a design registration is one of these rights. The Act and Rules relating to the Design Law of India clearly detail the cancellation procedure. PROCEDURE.

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Court of Appeal of England and Wales reminds rightholders to monitor trade mark registers to avoid acquiescence

The IPKat

Those machines have been imported into the UK for distribution and sale since June 2013, and marketed using the acronym ICE and the following logo: Both the Claimant and the First Defendant have trade mark registrations in the United Kingdom.

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Suffolk University Law School IP Center, Fourth Annual Intellectual Property & Innovation Conference

43(B)log

Design patents play a role when we have them, typically a handbag/jewelry/diamond cuts/chain designs/shoes. Issue: legal is often the last to know of new designs, so you need to know before the design is launched: need to explain that legal needs to be part of the process. More partial designs.

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Hark! The Herald Trademarks Sing: A Holiday Trademark Extravaganza

LexBlog IP

CHRISTMAS became a registered trademark for “Christmas Ornaments and Decorations of the Non-Electrical Type” way back in 1966 (Registration No. ” Scrooge wasn’t the only one who had that idea: a business owner registered ALWAYS CHRISTMAS & Design as a service mark in 1995 (Registration No.

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Veuve Clicquot colour trade mark about to be cancelled?

The IPKat

The examiner of the EUIPO held that it was not an abstract colour mark but a figurative mark and refused registration for lack of distinctiveness ( Art. The trade mark was registered on 23 March 2007. The history of the registration has been covered here. The picture was created with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer.

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