TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2013, Afdah.com entered the already crowded market and quickly attracted millions of users tempted by a comprehensive library of copyright-infringing movies. Nevertheless, several well-known ‘pirate’ brands exploited the ‘loophole’, including Movie4K, Putlocker, Yify and Afdah.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Bowser’s involvement started in June 2013 and continued until his arrest last year. The conspiracy, which also includes co-defendants Max Louarn and Yuanning Chen, used various brands including “Team Xecuter,” “Axiogame.com,” “Maxconsole.com,” and “China Distribution.” Both counts carry a maximum prison penalty of five years.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Brands have recently begun to co-opt this form of communication in an attempt to capitalize on the prevalence and effectiveness of memes. [ii] x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. 29, 2013), [link]. [ii]

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 26, 2022

for unlawfully manufacturing, importing, advertising, marketing, selling, and distributing unauthorized, counterfeit versions of its popular CAKE brand of hemp-derived Delta-8 products. Here, however, AKF didn’t allege that Mothership ever marketed, sold, or advertised the “Cake” mark. AKF sued LCF etc. 3d 1068 (9th Cir.

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IIPRD

JUNE 29, 2022

Louis Vuitton Malletier is a French fashion house and one of the most recognisable luxury goods brands in the world. It was awarded the world’s most valuable luxury brand for six consecutive years (2006-2012), topping even Chanel, Gucci, and Dior. After 12 decades, it has become one of the most identifiable marks on the planet!

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A bit of factual background before we move ahead to the legal analysis: Allied Blenders, a liquor manufacturer, has held a registered trademark for ‘OFFICER’S CHOICE PRESTIGE WHISKY’ label since 2013. The court’s analysis here worked on the same logic and highlighted the potential confusion it may cause in the market.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It had to be decided how the marks would be perceived by the average consumer, in the relevant market, who is reasonably well-informed and observant, taking account of the type of goods and how they are marketed. The degree of similarity of the goods should be considered in relation to the degree of similarity of the marks.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

1 Joint & Muscle Spray and Cream Topical Pain Relief Brand” on: (1) its Australian website; (2) social media; and (3) Ultimate Fighting Championship (“UFC”) athletes’ clothing in matches televised in the United States. Around 2013, MaxRelief also made “Australia’s # 1” claims through its website, Twitter, and YouTube accounts.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To create global consumer interference along with the profit from it, is now the primary objective of majority of the markets. Companies Act, 2013. Merger & Acquisition has been mentioned from Section 230 to 234 of Chapter XV of the Companies Act, 2013. Gaining access to new markets. Securities Laws. Case Study.

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The IPKat

APRIL 22, 2023

On 22 March 2023, the Danish Supreme Court ruled in the well-known (at least in Denmark) case concerning a hanging flowerpot, a vase and a jar created in 2013/2014 by the Danish designer Anne Black : In 2016, Netto (a Danish discount supermarket owned by Salling Group) promoted and sold its own hanging flowerpot, vase and jar.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 20, 2021

It has marketed its software under the name “SmartSync” since 2004 and obtained a trademark for SmartSync in 2007. It sells its software primarily to the United States Navy but, in 2013, sold its software to at least one major pharmacy chain.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Although the evidence did not show that applicant "took concrete steps to launch all the goods and services in its application," it did show applicant's "capacity to market" them. The Board observed that "[e]vidence that a party has the capacity to market or manufacture a product can rebut a lack of bona fide intent to use claim.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The defendant had been using since 2013 with registrations from June 2015. The long history of the parties’ joint presence on the UK market clearly added a degree of complexity to the judgment, which contains a detailed review of each side’s business over the years.

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IP Tech Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

FDA in 2013 under NDA No. The plaintiff argued that if the ANDA filer were to market vortioxetine for treatment of MDD, as proposed, it would infringe the later-expiring patents. As stated by the Court, the statute requires that the infringing use “must be the use for which an applicant is seeking marketing approval.”

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property is anything created by the human mind, including ideas, innovations, industrial models, trademarks, songs, symbols, names, brands, etc. IPR protection permits the inventor, brand owner, patent holder, and copyright holder to benefit from his/her effort, and investment.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The touchstone is whether ordinary consumers in the relevant market are likely to be confused about the source of the goods. 2013) (“[The accused infringer] has in fact scrupulously avoided such confusion by choosing a starkly different logo that it prominently displays on its [products] and on all its sales and marketing literature.”).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As a registered company it was generating annual sales of around $7 million by 2013 and paid taxes to the state. Nezar Saeed Hammo allegedly acted as Alfa’s marketing manager while Mohammed Abu Oun was identified as the company’s general manager. In 2008, that was an unusual achievement. DISH alleged that the men and Alfa TV Inc.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The BoA discussed the items of evidence filed by 44IP: Statistical data of people watching Formula 1 in 2013 did not include data from Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In 2014, Lewis Hamilton was ranked ‘the most marketable athlete’. This exception does not apply in opposition proceedings (case T-863/19 , paras.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He posted about the app on social media but didn’t encourage others to do so; he didn’t have a written business or marketing plan before launch, and he did not create investor presentations, solicit investors, or raise capital. Peloton’s core brand is Peloton. He paid for one press release, sometime after the app’s “soft launch.”

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

FDA in 2013 under NDA No. The plaintiff argued that if the ANDA filer were to market vortioxetine for treatment of MDD, as proposed, it would infringe the later-expiring patents. ” As stated by the Court, the statute requires that the infringing use “must be the use for which an applicant is seeking marketing approval.”

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IPilogue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Though mass-marketed in a $2 million promotional campaign , Earthbound failed replicate its Japanese success in North America. Nintendo owns the game’s brand and composed its music, but licensed the first two Earthbound series soundtracks to Sony for album releases in Japan in 1989 and 1994. History of Earthbound.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

He had been selling “METAL” branded clothing since the early 1990s, primarily through hard rock music magazines. He gradually expanded his offerings to a variety of markets, including motorcyclists, skaters, lumberjacks and “headbangers.”. He apparently drew and began using the stylized “METAL” mark sometime around 1997.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 10, 2023

These new technologies will lead to new behavioral changes and these new activities would power new markets that no one can predict at present. The Metaverse provides vast opportunities for brands to venture into creation of new technologies. IPR in Metaverse. In the recent case of World Inc V. Recently, Indian entrepreneur B.S

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The IPKat

JULY 26, 2021

What does the term ‘MOCCA’ evoke in your mind, a kind of coffee or a specific brand? Most of them regarded ‘MOCCA’ as a kind of coffee instead of a specific brand except one Italian colleague who also saw ‘MOCCA (almost phonetically identical to ‘Moka’)’ as referring to the Moka Pot (Italian wiki page for that here ).

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DuetsBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Rapala Billboard Ads Continue to Engage (2013). Rapala’s “More Hits Than Google” Billboard Update (Photo Included) (2009). Good Bye Google, Hello Whudjagiddumon? Rapala Taunts a Monster? Rapala: Happy Fishing on Mother’s Day (2012). Eat More Walleye? Top Ten Questions About Rapala Minnocchio (2015). Rapala’s Public Service Announcement?

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The IPKat

JANUARY 6, 2022

This, I remarked, granted an effective monopoly in the word EAGLE (being the only shared element of the two brand names) notwithstanding the judge’s recognition that Sazerac was not entitled to such a monopoly. The claimant was owner of VAGISIL, a long-established product on the UK market since 1984.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

There was evidence before the Court that VNG had the ability to geo-block users as early as 2013 (if not earlier) but chose not to. VNG had represented that it had used its brand name in commerce in the U.S. market” by VNG. The Ninth Circuit relied on a case from the First Circuit that found “if a defendant tries to limit U.S.

Copyright Infringement 98

Copyright Infringement Copyright Contracts Music 98

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

201 (Spring 2013). Steps Brand Owners Can Take to Deal With Brandjacking on Social Networks. Tito & Tita appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Mitchell, Keep Your Friends Close: A Framework for Addressing Rights to Social Media Contacts, 67 VAND. 1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account?

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The TTABlog

APRIL 6, 2022

Illyrian Import claimed to be the exclusive authorized distributor and brand agent of a company ("GKS") that continuously sold GJERGJ KASTRIOTI SKËNDERBEU and SKËNDERBEU brandy in the United States since 2002. Priority: Applicant ADOL proved that it first used the subject marks in the United States in April 2004. ADOL owns a U.S.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, brand value, copyright, etc have become foundational assets for several businesses, seeking greater importance and attention. The risks include unauthorised use and infringement, technological obsolescence, and the marketable nature of IP as collateral. Objective 5.11.1

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It was approved through an accelerated approval process based on partial trials, i.e., Phase 2 trials in the US in 2012, and EU in 2013, following which the WHO released its Interim Policy Guidelines to guide usage in the absence of Phase 3 trials. As mentioned above, there are 4 more applications.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2022

Given that finding and clearing a new brand purely from a legal perspective can take months, it is interesting to note that when a Defendant loses an infringement case it will almost certainly be ordered to rebrand within days, weeks at the most. Is Amazon using the marks itself where third parties market their goods on its platform?

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. When, therefore, another identical vanilla cream filled chocolate sandwich cookie enters the market, named ―FAB!O‖ Ltd for disobeying the Palbociclib interim injunction.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 15, 2022

When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly $12,100,000) for its inaugural sale. [1] A relaxed regulatory environment helps explain the enormous growth of the Chinese art market.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 25, 2022

” There was evidence before the Court that VNG had the ability to geo-block users as early as 2013 (if not earlier) but chose not to. VNG had represented that it had used its brand name in commerce in the U.S. market” by VNG. market” by VNG. users’ ability to access its websites. content owners.”

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The IPKat

MARCH 17, 2024

Importantly for this case, VCC produces two types of expensive French red wine involving various up-market grape types. Kreglinger's first vintage of the wine promoted and sold as "New Certan" was the 2011 vintage, released in 2013. For the earliest vintages, the label depicted the de Moor family home on their vineyard in Tasmania.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Hetronic, a manufacturer of radio remote controls for heavy duty construction equipment, sued its former distributor Abitron for trademark infringement as Abitron continued to use the Hetronic trademark to market and sell Abitron’s own remote controls after the distribution agreement was terminated. Hetronic International, Inc.,

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