Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

In the ongoing legal battles over print-on-demand services, RedBubble and (more recently) Printify have sometimes achieved favorable results by disaggregating all of the functions and acting solely as a marketing agent for the disaggregated vendors. Amazon The post Print-on-Demand Services Face More Legal Woes–Canvasfish v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 20, 2022

The registration of your product holds enormous significance as it ensures your mark isn’t misrepresented in the market, safeguards your goodwill, ensures control over advertising and branding, and the list can go on. It can be registered in a single class or multi-class. Conclusion. However, what you sow is what you reap.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Trademark Law: A powerful branding program that combines a strong trademark or service mark and a memorable advertising and marketing campaign. Copyright Law: An important and original work of authorship, in the literary, musical, visual, dramatic or other arts. Nominees can be individuals, groups or corporations.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The similarities in the marks and the goods, "Opposer’s history of renaming and restructuring itself, combined with Opposer’s prior ownership of Applicant’s brass division, industry norms concerning legal entity changes," outweighed any purchaser sophistication. KME Germany GmbH v. Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Zhejiang Hailiang Co.,

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 24, 2023

It removes the restrictions on budget and print reproductions, enabling web distribution, copy printing and packaging, and out-of-home advertising impressions. However, it does not permit resale, distribution or any form of commercial use; templates, merchandise and decoration in small commercial spaces are also prohibited.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

"There is no way to determine the extent to which, or even if, consumers of banking services associate the Ring Design alone with Petitioner." Nor did California put its advertising expenses "in context," i.e., in comparison with the expenditures of other banks.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 1, 2023

Inherent Distinctiveness: The Supreme Court's decision in Two Pesos , involving the decor of a Mexican restaurant, established that "adornments in a building structure" may be protectable as a service mark." Applicant's specimens of use and its advertising evidence depicted the side of the building that also displays the hotel name.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Services: The Board found applicant’s “clearing and reconciling financial transactions” and “currency exchange services” to broad enough to encompass opposer’s “providing … electronic exchange markets for trading, clearing, confirming transactions and other services in the field of commodity futures, options and other derivatives.”

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DuetsBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

After all, in another context, a creative fusion of branding elements led to Owens-Corning overcoming “ well-settled ” law against color trademarks, when O-C linked its pink-insulation advertising campaign to the beloved Pink Panther cartoon.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

More specifically, several market research studies have noted that the introduction of trade dress protection has significantly benefited and furthered the food and beverage industry. The Lanham Act, also known as the Trademark Act of 1946 is the US Federal Statute that regulates trademarks, service marks, and unfair competition.

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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The Royal Warrant, which, as we said, allows holders to display the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom on their products, marketing communications, in their premises and on commercial vehicles, automatically lends prestige to a brand and most assuredly boosts the sales of those companies known as “official suppliers” of the British Crown.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

According to Lifestyle Equities, BHPC products that were lawfully made, advertised, and distributed in the United States with the permission of the US rights owner are being marketed and sold by Amazon in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is a kind of counterfeiting.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

According to Lifestyle Equities, BHPC products that were lawfully made, advertised, and distributed in the United States with the permission of the US rights owner are being marketed and sold by Amazon in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is a kind of counterfeiting.

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IP Whiteboard

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A smartnumber®, or phone word, can be a valuable marketing tool if it is a highly patterned number, for example, 1800 222 222, or if it can be translated into a memorable phoneword, for example, 13 2287 (13 CATS). In the Federal Court case, this value was created through Manly Cabs’ use of the Disputed Numbers as part of its advertising.

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