The TTABlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The court concluded that the Board did not abuse its discretion in construing the petition to include a priority claim based of use analogous to trademark use, and further concluded that substantial evidence supported the Board's findings regarding Andrusiek's prior use. The court therefore affirmed the "cancellation of Appellant's mark."

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IIPRD

JUNE 13, 2024

This marks a significant shift in the prevailing paradigm. AI and intellectual property rights (IPR) aren’t just something for the patent and copyright geeks to nerd out on although it is that, it is something that going to have a lot of commercial and social impacts as AI challenges a lot of the ways we function in IPR.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Its claim of use analogous to trademark use failed because its prior publicity "was not sufficiently clear, widespread and repetitive." Registrant Harwood International enjoyed a constructive first use date of October 6, 2014, the filing date of its underlying application. TMEP Section 903.06 (2022). Emphasis by the Board).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Since 2014, the Eurasian Economic Commission has held permanent observer status at WIPO. Trademarks Independent applications must be filed in each country. It is the conventional way to file a trademark. There is no unified office for EAEU trademarks. It is the unified register of EAEU trademarks.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

(I am unaware of any reported comparison, but I did find the latter compared to a toilet flushing and have seen the former’s trademark suffer indignities at times too ). The object then is to hear out all sides, and offer some thoughts on the recent clamor around acoustic marks and the questions that they present.

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