The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

The dispute concerned the geographical indication "Salaparuta" for Sicilian wine, which received protection in Italy in 2006, and then was registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) by the European Commission in 2009. The wine brand had been around since the nineteenth century but changed ownership a few times.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 25, 2023

The industry has had phenomenal growth in recent years, with the manufacturing of apparel doubling between 2000 and 2014 [2]. Despite purchasing 60% more clothing in 2014 than in 2000, people only wore the clothes for half as long. In 2017, luxury brand Burberry even burned $37 million worth of unsold items [6].

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IPilogue

JULY 27, 2021

French champagne producers are protected by intellectual property rules established by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that gives them a monopoly over the use of their brands. For example, in 2014, President Putin created embargos on products such as Parmesan and Gouda cheeses to promote local products.

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Garrigues Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The High Court held that the product was aimed at an adult public, with the suggestion that they eat the sweets as an effective remedy for their “everyday ills” The defendant in turn sells in FNAC stores, under its own brand, Molaquetemola, products with similar characteristics as regards their presentation and contents.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

According to the SCA, the target market for the products was made up of discerning consumers who were more concerned with the precise brand of watch they required, and who would be less likely to be deceived or confused by the limited similarities between the marks.

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Dragons' Den

APRIL 26, 2023

We spoke to Hannah about her success as a woman in business and how registering her IP has helped her protect and add value to her brand, ‘Toddle Born Wild’. Then we've got registered designs for our Toddle design, and for our magic mist bottle, which has stood us in really good stead. “We also have trade secrets.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

District Court Judge since 2010 and held the position of Chief Judge for the District of Delaware from July 2014 to June 2021. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC that limited venue in patent cases to jurisdictions where defendants reside or have a regular and established place of business. Supreme Court’s 2017 Decision in TC Heartland LLC v.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One might remember that in a world full of collaborations, McDonald’s is also a player [with a streetwear brand , with a rapper ]. In terms of design law, it does not appear that McDonald's has chosen to protect the aesthetic appearance of the Happy Meal. Nor does the unregistered EU design law appear to be a valid legal basis.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2013, Interprofession du Gruyère, sought and received from the USPTO a certification mark for a design with stylized font, for the letters “AOC”, a Swiss cross, and the words “LE GRUYÈRE SWITZERLAND.” This protected designation was superseded by adoption of the Protected Designation of Origin (“PDO”) for GRUYÈRE in 2001.

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The IPKat

APRIL 22, 2023

Over the past few years, The IPKat has hosted a number of posts on the lengthy Danish saga relating to protection and infringement of copyright in pottery created by designer Anne Black. Now, the final word seems to have been spoken, as Katfriends Hanne Kirk and Charlotte Mittet Høfler (both Gorrissen Federspiel) report.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

On January 14, 2022, Hermès filed a Complaint in the Southern District of New York alleging trademark and trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, injury to business reputation, and misappropriation, under the federal Lanham Act and New York state law. And in February 2022, Nike, Inc.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Industria, based on Colombia, produces and distributes food products under two relevant brand names: Zenú and Ranchera. They’re successful brands: approximately $300,000,000 annually in sales of Zenú products and $100,000,000 in sales of Ranchera products. T]he one showed in the application is not mine.”

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IIPRD

MARCH 4, 2024

This right can be related to music, a book, a logo, any art work, work related to science, designs of the industries. The brand image is created of the company. 24863/2014. [3] So, this is an infringement of trademark and Nike can sue Person A for using its trademark without consent and causing loss to its goodwill. Cipla, I.A.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

On January 14, 2022, Hermès filed a Complaint in the Southern District of New York alleging trademark and trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, false designation of origin, cybersquatting, injury to business reputation, and misappropriation, under the federal Lanham Act and New York state law.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The garment and export business in Cambodia must create more useful service activities including branding, marketing, and sourcing in order for it to advance up the value chain. Additionally, it requires Cambodia to maintain online databases with data on applications and registrations for patents, industrial designs, and trademarks.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 28, 2022

In practice, if an applicant from Crimea for example indicates that he is domiciled in Russia, the Office reserves the right to rectify the address since the annexation of Crimea in 2014 has not been recognised by the European Union. In common parlance, we often speak of “the” Dior brand, for example. Parallel imports made legal.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2013, Interprofession du Gruyère, sought and received from the USPTO a certification mark for a design with stylized font, for the letters “AOC”, a Swiss cross, and the words “LE GRUYÈRE SWITZERLAND.” The test turns upon the primary significance that the term would have to the relevant public.

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Traverse Legal Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

The first known NFT was minted in 2014 and since then has seen rapid growth. Non-fungible tokens have been designed to give you ownership of something that cannot be replicated or copied. At times the NFT may contain branding or other IP from a third party that they are working with. What are NFTs?

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 28, 2022

In practice, if an applicant from Crimea for example indicates that he is domiciled in Russia, the Office reserves the right to rectify the address since the annexation of Crimea in 2014 has not been recognised by the European Union. In common parlance, we often speak of “the” Dior brand, for example. Parallel imports made legal.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

The intended strategy, which calls for a significant investment of time, money, and patience in order to get the international GI brand and introduce GI products to the global market, may be beyond the means of the average artisan or rural producer. The EU had placed a temporary restriction on the import of in 2014.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

The DMCA also makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that is “primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner.”

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that. respectively.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2023

These agreements authorized Hydronic to build and sell Hetronic-branded products so long as the parts were purchased directly from Hetronic. When Abitron purchased Hydronic in 2014, they began selling products identical to Hetronic’s remote controls in foreign markets with the recognizable black-and-yellow coloring.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 9, 2021

Applicant SICPA Holding SA ran into double trouble when it applied to register the mark SHIFTMAG for "security consulting in the nature of professional consulting on magnetic stripe color shifting smart designs based on liquid crystal technology for visual card authentication, embed protection and brand identity customization.”

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The IPKat

MAY 16, 2022

63) In 2014, the EUIPO’s Opposition Division partially upheld the opposition, allowing registration only in Class 43. The relevant public will perceive it as referring to the famous retail brand that belongs to Inditex. From the BoA decision (R 2040/2019-4, para. EUR 40 000.

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

One of these brands that has popped up on the AmeriKat's Instagram are riding boots from Fairfox & Favor. A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In 2014, it sought to register the EUTM No. c) Characteristics of the place designated by that name According to the Chiemsee test, another criterion to be assessed is the analysis of the characteristics of the place designated by the name. In 2002, the company applied to register the EUTM No. 011565736 "ICELAND" (fig.)

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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. LSI faced financial distress in 2014 due to cost escalation. The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore launched an IP Financing Scheme (IPFS) in 2014.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. For example- Zhong An, a Chinese Insurance Company functions on various innovative blockchain technologies.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. For example- Zhong An, a Chinese Insurance Company functions on various innovative blockchain technologies.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. For example- Zhong An, a Chinese Insurance Company functions on various innovative blockchain technologies.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2005 HTC released the world’s first Windows 3G smartphone (the clamshell HTC Universal) and followed in 2008 with the first smartphone running Google’s Android operating system (branded as the T-Mobile G1). Ericsson and HTC entered into three such licensing agreements in 2003, 2008 and 2014. 2014), Microsoft v. D-Link (Fed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account? Steps Brand Owners Can Take to Deal With Brandjacking on Social Networks. SF Design Group. Fredman Design Group. Moore, Find Out Who Your Friends Are: A Framework for Determining Whether Employees’ Social Media Followers Follow Them to A New Job, 39 CAMPBELL L.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 26, 2023

22] However, to remedy this caveat, the court propounded that designating a colour using an internationally recognised identification code (such as Pantone) will constitute a graphical representation, being precise and stable. [23] 24] Thus, the first requirement makes a colour well within the purview of registration. 214, 229 (2018).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The police make this clear when they write to the owners of listed domains, warning of offenses under the Fraud Act 2006, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, and even the Serious Crimes Act 2007. By extension, the operator of the domain is a suspected criminal. probably isn’t ideal.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s app was first released in 2014 for the iPhone and Pebble watch as a metric-tracking cycling app that was designed to “track speed, distance, altitude, and grade.” Unlike the 2014 app, the 2021 app does not include “[bike more]” in its screen name, leaving only “Bike+,” and the app logo says “Bike” rather than “b+.”

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