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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

It is easy for businesses to associate their products and services with religion since people are so deeply devoted to their faiths. However, what would happen if business houses wanted to trademark the name of the god they worshipped? However the court has provided a creative analogy in regards to it.

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Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

The IPKat

The authors must have been quite busy, particularly in the past two years, diligently tracking the frequent IP law revisions (Trade Mark Law, Anti-Unfair Competition Law Revisions in 2019; Copyright Law and Patent Law Revisions in 2020) and, of course, the promulgation of the Civil Code (and the IP-related provisions therein) in 2020.

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Does the sign “eat clan people” carry an association with cannibalism and thus produce an “adverse effect”?

The IPKat

Seng then took the case to the Beijing Intellectual Property (IP) Court. 5296 [2019], First, Administrative Division, 73, Beijing, of Beijing Intellectual Property Court) First, the conclusion : the Beijing IP Court perceived the sign at issue as per phrase segmentation a) in the table above, which thus had no ‘adverse effect’.

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Tuesday Wonders

The IPKat

The topic of the 28 October session is " Researching transnational law in the local context: what questions to ask, what methods to use and how can we study transnational law? " The post is located in the Legislation, Policy and Technology Advice Section of the Patent and Technology Law Division, Patents and Technology Sector.

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Major YouTube Copyright Lawsuit Nears Trial With Almost Everything On the Line

TorrentFreak

For musician Maria Schneider, whose class action lawsuit against YouTube will head to a jury trial next month, the status quo and its alleged facilitator have been a constant topic of discussion for well over a decade. “When a nail salon or spa has a back room for illegal prostitution, we shut down the business.

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Court Dismisses School Districts’ Lawsuits Over Social Media “Addiction”–In re Social Media Cases

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. It is an all-out brawl in federal court, with no-expense-spared battles over each and every picayune litigation issue.

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[Guest post] Retromark Volume XIII: the last six months in trade marks

The IPKat

Floor cleaning appears to be big business, with the claimant enjoying more than £17m in turnover in 2020 (boosted by the pandemic, perhaps?). The long history of the parties’ joint presence on the UK market clearly added a degree of complexity to the judgment, which contains a detailed review of each side’s business over the years.

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