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Balancing Innovation: India’s Views for Pharmaceuticals in the Efta Trade Deal

IIPRD

The implementation of TRIPS-Plus provisions can also readily facilitate the emergence of monopoly power for brand-name pharmaceutical companies. [v] xii] This clause gives the original researchers ownership of their clinical trial data for a predetermined amount of time, usually ranging for a period of six years. 6, 2024). [ii]

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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 05- February 11)

SpicyIP

Comments on the Proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, 2024 The recently proposed Trademark Rules amendments were open for comments in a period ending today. Image from here A SARAL Analysis of the Proposed Trade Marks (1st Amendment) Rules, 2024 Just Keep it Simple! Well, it appears the courts think most consumers would.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

However, the appellate court seems to invalidate that six-factor test: “Determining he ownership of social-media accounts is indeed a relatively novel exercise, but that novelty does not warrant a new six-factor test.” The next step is to determine whether ownership ever transferred to another party.

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TTAB Affirms 2(e)(4) Surname Refusal of "BASQUIAT" for Alcoholic Beverages, Rejecting Transferred Distinctiveness Claim

The TTABlog

97291105 (May 1, 2024) [not precedential] [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Thomas L. Trademark Rule 41(a)(1) provides that "In appropriate cases, ownership of one or more active prior registrations on the Principal Register. Welch 2024. In re Administrators of the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate , Serial No. Casagrande).

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TTAB Orders Cancellation of FREEDOM PARTY Registration: Application Was Void Ab Initio Due to Nonownership

The TTABlog

92068029 (January 12, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Thomas W. Petitioners alleged that from 2003 to October 2016, Petitioners and Respondent operated as a partnership and shared equally the profits derived from arranging and organizing dance parties in New York City under the Freedom Party brand. Welch 2024.

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RAW power: over dissent, 9th Circuit orders trial on infringement, cancellation of TM applications

43(B)log

4th -, 2024 WL 1356981, Nos. BBK sells smoking-related products with RAW branding; CCA allegedly infringed by selling cannabis products with the mark “Raw Garden.” BBK Tobacco & Foods LLP v. Central Coast Agriculture, Inc., 22-16190, 22-16281 (9 th Cir.