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Hark! The Herald Trademarks Sing: A Holiday Trademark Extravaganza

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” 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. As Ebeneezer Scrooge put it after being visited by the three ghosts: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

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Protection of Trademarks in Cambodia

IP and Legal Filings

Regarding the IPR matters, Cambodia has issued the following legal documents: • Law concerning Marks, Trade Name and Acts of Unfair Competition dated January 8, 2002; • Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs, in force since January 2003; • Law on Copyright and Related Right, in force since March 2003.

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

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Here in a nutshell is the query the Court addressed: 16 Under Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001, trade marks which are devoid of any distinctive character shall not be registered. 1 v OHIM , C‑329/02 P, EU:C:2004:532, paragraph 23). 3137680), the lightsaber sound from Star Wars (as Reg. As noted (at 498, fn. 523,616.