IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 26, 2023

He was unmistakably aware of the nuances regarding colours in trademark law. Broadly speaking, trademarks are of two types: traditional and non-traditional. [1] 2] However, the quintessential reason for such distinction is due to a slightly elevated standard for the registration of non-traditional marks.

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Registration Trademark Trademark Law Law 79

Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And the number of active trademark registrations in the USPTO database is larger than ever. Additionally, since late December 2021, when new procedures went into effect, the USPTO has received around 100 expungement petitions and about 100 re-examination petitions to get rid of registrations for marks that are allegedly not in use.

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Trademark Non-Fungible Tokens All Rights Reserved False Advertising 130

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a competitive keyword advertising lawsuit. The plaintiff has a trademark registration for the “Nursing CE Central” mark for providing continuing education for nurses. This is fine, but it deviates from courts’ efforts over the years to come up with multi-factor variations specific to keyword advertising.

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Advertising Advertising False Advertising Trademark 85

IPilogue

AUGUST 4, 2022

The applicant, Beijing Judian Restaurant Co (“Judian”), has operated restaurants in Vancouver and Richmond since 2018, along with numerous well-known ( served over 5,750,000 customers between 2011 and 2019 ) restaurants in China since 2005. Sing and demanded CAD $1,500,000 for Beijing Judian to acquire use of JU DIAN trademarks.

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Trademark Registration Designs Design 115

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Slogans are brief, memorable words that are commonly used in advertising to promote a specific company. Companies seek to protect the value of their trademarks since they can be quite valuable to the brand. As a result, slogan registration is frequently denied due to a lack of distinctiveness.

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Trademark Advertising Advertising Registration 54

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

– Once upon a time, as Prashant noted in his October 2011 post, a trademark application was filed, examined, and published within a mere 72 hours at the Chennai Trademarks Registry. For collective marks, he argued that out of 10 collective mark registrations he examined, 9 were granted erroneously.

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Trademark Publishing Journalism Copyright 59

IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. Trademark Law. Parody in Trademarks is No Joke. With damages amounting to $40,000, it is clear the courts are unamused by parody in trademarks. Copyright Law.

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IP Copyright Infringement Inventor Intellectual Property 106