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Getting your Trademark Registration in Bahrain

IP and Legal Filings

After filing for trademark registration, the application will be reviewed by the Trademark Office so as to check whether any same or similar trademark or any marks are not already registered or has previously applied by any other applicant. Request for Preliminary trademark examination.

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Capturing All the Dimensions: Intellectual Property Protection for 3-D Designs and 3-D Printing Methods

More Than Your Mark

However, if your 3-D printed work relies on the files created by another, or is the result of scanning the sculpture of another, you may have to make proper attribution of ownership to the file owner. An example of this is a 2014 initiative by Hasbro, Inc. , the toy company that owns the My Little Pony intellectual property.

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Battle of the Firms – The Irony of IP Law Firms Being Sued for Trademark Infringement

SpicyIP

The plaintiff in question is the managing partner and founder of a Delhi-based IP firm Sujata Chaudhri and Associates, which has been using its trade mark since 2014, 3 years prior to the defendant. The controversy was regarding the use of a similar logo by the defendant (another lawyer) for its law firm. My heart will.

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Protecting Digital Identities: Trademarks, Domain Names, and the Menace of Cyber-Squatting

IP and Legal Filings

After examining the facts, the court held that the owner of trademark had the exclusive right to register the trademark as a domain name under the trademark law. It also held that when possessor of a trademark has prior and exclusive usage, they not only possess superior title but also absolute ownership.

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Departing Employees Rename Their Former Employers’ Facebook Account. That May Be a Problem–La Baguette v. Tito & Tita

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In a footnote, the court acknowledges the law is “evolving” with respect to employer ownership of social media accounts: The law on the ownership of a social media pages created by employees for employers is evolving rapidly and varies between jurisdictions. 1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account?

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

Copyright Lately

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. 1962, 1976 (2014). Petrella v.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

Juliet Dee, Sweet baby Jesus, the band who must not be named, and friends U can’t trust: Disparaging, immoral and scandalous trademarks in the United States and the European Union, 53 First Amendment Studies 91, 93 (2019)]. ” Evans (2014) at 12. registered trademarks: Elohim—4. .” World Intellect.