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How to Expedite Trademark Application: When and how can you speed up your trademark examination process?

Patent Trademark Blog

Can you expedite a US trademark application? While it’s not impossible, bumping up a US trademark application can only occur under very limited circumstances. Actually, it is significantly more difficult to expedite a trademark application than a patent application. So this extraordinary remedy is limited by design.

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An Overview on Trademark Genericide

IP and Legal Filings

Generic Trademarks: An Introduction. A trademark refers to a name, mark, or sign through which the products belonging to a company or a person can be distinguished from other products in the market. Primarily, trademarks perform four functions. Firstly, trademarks help distinguish one product from another in the market.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Trade marks

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Stephen Mouka issued a Cease and Desist Notice to the public after an X user created and shared a limited merchandise bearing the slogan. Furthermore, Nollywood actress Ann Njemanze sued famous filmmaker Zeb Ejiro and Filmone Entertainment and Film Trybe Media for infringing on her copyright and trademark of “DOMITILLA”.

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TTAB Denies Fraud Claim But Grants Petition to Cancel SEYIDOGLU Registration on Section 2(a) False Connection Ground

The TTABlog

In a case decided under the TTAB's ACR regime, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of Nema Foods' twenty-year old registration for the mark SEYIDOGLU (in standard form) for various food items, finding that the mark falsely suggests a connection with Petitioner, a major manufacturer of food products, including Turkish desserts and jams.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

SpicyIP

Other Posts Honesty as a Defense vis-à-vis Trademark Infringements: Principle or Provision? Can “honest concurrent use” be used as a defense against a trademark infringement claim? Lokesh, highlighting its history, argues that honest concurrent use is a principle of trademark law and is not limited to a provision.

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Overreaching and delay lead to defeat of TM owner's claims

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29, 2021) This is part of a long-running trademark case, now over 10 years old. were valid and infringed, but the latter wasn’t counterfeited; SMRI’s dilution victory was vacated, but not its victories on deceptive trade practices, ACPA, false advertising, and unfair competition. Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Inc. 2021 WL 1176242, No.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (December 18- December 24)

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on December 21, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The Appellant filed an appeal against the order of the Trademark Registry allowing the opposition against the Appellant’s ‘BSA’ mark. the Court held that such usage would amount neither to infringement of the trademark, nor taking of unfair advantage of the Respondent’s mark.