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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. The Judge disagreed and rejected Mr Gu’s defence of honest concurrent use, holding that Mr Gu had infringed the Claimant’s trademark and should rebrand. For 12 years he used this name.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

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It would have taken a bit of due diligence, but not much. trademark office records reveals that Viacom obtained rights in a broad array of TMNT marks after a highly-publicized purchase from the Mirage Group in 2009. Here’s the first clause, section (i), dealing with ownership of the Bored Ape NFTs: “i.