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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)

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While allowing the event’s continuation, the Court directed the defendants to use “FEF” as a prefix and display a disclaimer to avoid association with FDCI’s event. Second, the defendant was able to obtain copyright and trademark registrations for its device marks during the above interim phase.

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Who Watches the Watchmen? – Empirically Examining Examination Reports (Part 1)

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For the benefit of the reader, the diagram taken from the Trademark registry’s portal describe the entire workflow of an application from filing to its registration. The Dataset. A dataset was built by scraping the electronic register of the Indian Trademark Registry in 2020. The dataset consisted of 309,189 marks in total.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

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By 2015, almost all rejections are visual arts. 1937: set up a review board for appeals for registration but no further appeal; AG said it was constitutional in 1941. Requiring correspondence, not so consistent. Visual arts: technical drawings as pseudo-patents are rejected 20-25% of the time. Photos about 5-7% rejections.

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TTABlog Test: Is ROMA PIZZA for Restaurant Services Confusable with ROMA for Frozen Pizza?

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opposed Timothy Bammann's application to register the mark ROMA PIZZA for restaurant services [PIZZA disclaimed], alleging a likelihood of confusion with its registered mark ROMA for frozen pizza. million on advertising from 2017-2020, garnering $81 million in revenues from 2015-2020. Bernatello's Pizza, Inc. It spent $2.3

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

LexBlog IP

It can also mean as the proxy or substitute holder of rights here on earth because no spiritual being will receive a copyright certificate, trademark registrations, or letters patent. courts have denied registration to religious marks as being offensive to other believers or to non-believers. ” But neither the PTO nor U.S.

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Make Your Mark On History: Connecting Tradenames To Landmark Events, People & Places

LexBlog IP

So watch the docket to see how this case plays out, and to see how it impacts the concept of the registration of historic figure trademarks. Now there are thirty-seven live filings, and the number of registrations has more than doubled to thirteen, though most specifically disclaim “’JUNETEENTH’ APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN.”

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Book review: Research Handbook on Trademark Law Reform

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Part 1: The trade mark registration process Chapter 2, by Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer , addresses "trade mark depletion", i.e. the hypothesis that there is a limited supply of signs that can usefully serve as a trademark and that we're running out [earlier work here ].