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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

For trademark owners, litigation was their main option. Trademark owners frequently used cease and desist letters to pressure infringers to stop using their marks without authorization before taking legal action. The Anticyber Squatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) considers cybersquatting unlawful in the United States.

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ITC Litigation: Introduction to Trade Secret Protection at the ITC

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

the ITC can also issue cease and desist orders to prevent further sales of the accused products. These statutory criteria also apply to investigations based on other intellectual property rights specified in the statute, including registered trademarks, copyrights, and mask works. [4] 16, 2009). [11] 1337(a)(1)(B).

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The Role of Brand Names in Business

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? ?. One person who clearly didn’t understand this was Mr Gu who set up a Chinese takeaway in Barrow-in-Furness in 2009 using the name China Tang. Registered trademarks give you much stronger rights in a name than simply using a name. For 12 years he used this name.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (May 8- May 13)

SpicyIP

They further argued that they had issued a cease and desist notice on 6th November, 2020 to which no response was received. A Notice of Opposition was also filed against the defendant’s trademark application to which defendant filed a counter statement arguing that the opposition was frivolous.

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