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Can’t sue for trademark infringement, but passing off remains an option if trademarks of both parties are registered rules Kerala High Court

Selvam & Selvam Blog

The court’s ruling sheds light on the rights and limitations of registered trademark owners and the grounds for seeking relief in cases of similarity between registered marks. a well-known company, has been marketing ayurvedic soaps under the trademark “Chandrika” since 1940. Syed Mohideen v.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.• registration requirements.

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Can You Trademark A Hashtag?

Kashishipr

Why Take the Trademark Route? Protecting a hashtag can be a good marketing strategy as it enables businesses to connect and reach a wider audience that enjoys the same kind of goods or services. Furthermore, if the hashtag consists of an existing registered trademark, it will aid in Trademark Registration.

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New CJEU referral on interplay between bad faith and trade mark functionality

The IPKat

Among other products, CeramTec markets a pink-coloured hip-replacement implant. It also argued that the pink colour was not part of a marketing strategy, but rather the result of the chromium oxide, present in the implants and covered by the now-expired patent. Coorstek’s counterclaim was essentially based on Art.

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Your domain name, your identity: the risks of not protecting it for your brand image

Garrigues Blog

When we start any business, one of the first things to choose is the name that will identify you in the market and, if the homework is done, it will be registered as a trademark (see a related post here ). These issues can have a major impact on brand strategy and affect credibility in the market. Let us see it.

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Inter American Convention allows claims that Lanham Act makes dubious after Abitron; but what about Article III?

43(B)log

But Industria does not advertise or sell its Zenú or Ranchera products in the United States and there are no market surveys specific to the United States for Zenú or Ranchera. In 2016, the Latinfood website contained the phrase “We have products from” followed by marks of imported brands, among which was an image of Industria’s Zenú mark.

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Understanding Copyright, Trademark and Halloween Costumes

Plagiarism Today

Wtf is a juice demon pic.twitter.com/OxYMWEuoCq — Eli Matthewson (@EliMatthewson) October 1, 2016. Characters are often protected by copyright, even if their fashion is not, but they are also routinely protected by trademark. Trademark infringement, however, isn’t like copyright.

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