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Traditional Knowledge on the agenda for 2024

The IPKat

This Big Kat is thinking about the big issues for IP in the coming year. The early years focused on investigating and analysing national experiences to understand the relationship between IP and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. The WIPO IGC was established in 2000.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

” The statement went on to explain that the group had acquired rights from a company called Squemme Productions, which itself had acquired “the exclusive IP for the first 130 episodes of TNMT 1987” from Poly Productions/IDDH. Statement of TMNTNFT’s IP lawyer, March 31, 2022. Definitely.

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The Role of Brand Names in Business

azrights

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. The key takeaway from the China Tang case is the importance of doing thorough due diligence before deciding on a name. For 12 years he used this name. The Need For Clearance Searches.