LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) becomes effective on December 27, 2021 and makes several important amendments to federal trademark law (the Lanham Act) intended to modernize trademark application examinations and clean house of trademark registrations for marks not used in commerce.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Court of Appeals affirmed the previous decision of the district court which found that Australian Leather had wilfully infringed Deckers’ “UGG” trademarks by selling less than 15 pairs of UGG branded boots in the U.S., Background.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Introduction: The concept of comparing and considering a trademark in its entirety is a well-established tenet in trademark law. When a trademark is registered, it provides protection to the mark as a whole, even if it is a composite trademark with numerous aspects in it. Similarly, in Vardhman Buildtech Pvt.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 21, 2023

§ 1052(c) on registering marks concerning a living person without permission; this case has the possibility of altering trademark law significantly and allowing current events to be treated similarly to historic events from a trademark perspective. But one can expect, now that cert. ” Id. (at at 1165-66).

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SpicyIP

MARCH 25, 2024

Sunanda Bharti on the Michelin Stars and its interaction was trademark laws. Bharti is a Professor of Law at Delhi University, and her previous posts can be accessed here. Image from here Mischief, Manifestation, and the Michelin Trademark!

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Case law has often overlapped overbreadth with other grounds of invalidity such as obviousness, anticipation, and inutility. . of the Patent Act on June 24, 2016. Trademark Law. Parody in Trademarks is No Joke. With damages amounting to $40,000, it is clear the courts are unamused by parody in trademarks.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The person was later convicted in 2016. This raised a question did the registrar of Trade Marks have the jurisdiction to revoke the ‘MANJAL’ trademark? For collective marks, he argued that out of 10 collective mark registrations he examined, 9 were granted erroneously. ruling on Indian businesses and trademark holders?

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LexBlog IP

JULY 8, 2021

If you begin an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s TEAS System, you will encounter the following: “1(a) – Actually using the mark in commerce now”. “1(b) 44(e) – Foreign registration exists for the same goods/services”. Related : How Long Does It Take to Get a Trademark? Adidas AG , 841 F.3d

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The judgement was passed collectively in an appeal against 4 orders (two impugning the 2016 Ericsson v. Controller General of Patents and Designs (passed on September 15), the Court clarified that the 2016 CRI Guidelines’ requirement of assessing the CRI in conjunction with novel hardware has now been removed from the 2017 CRI Guidelines.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. Plaintiffs allegedly used the 12 O’Clock Boyz trademarks since 2001 and registered the marks in 2016. Trademark etc.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

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. places the value of faith to U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 17, 2023

In addition, the opinion has important ramifications for domestic trademark law through its identification of “use in commerce” as the actionable domestic conduct. The seeming inability to engage in contextual comity analysis is apparent in other recent trademark extraterritoriality cases.[FN2] Hallatt (9th Cir.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 12, 2021

. § 1052(c) provides, in pertinent part, that the PTO must deny federal registration to a trademark if it “[c]onsists of or comprises a name, portrait, or signature identifying a particular individual except by his written consent….”

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