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World IP Day 2021 – Focus on IP and SMEs

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Turning ideas into a business and brand involves using the tools of the IP system – trademarks, design rights, copyright, patents, and confidential information or trade secrets. This insight makes it imperative to consider IP strategically when deciding whether an asset your designer is proposing to create for you will be appropriate.

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Trade Secrets Without Borders: The Defend Trade Secret Act’s Promise as an Extra-Territorial Statute Finally Comes to Pass

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This blog post summarizes these recent decisions. July 28, 2021) (finding that using an American company (also a defendant) providing design services and travelling to Illinois to work with engineers constituted plausible acts by defendants “in furtherance” of misappropriation ) and in Inventus Power, Inc. Cleveland), Inc.

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Intent-to-Use Trademark Application: Comprehensive Guide

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Home » Blog. Zazu Designs v. headquartered company and a Japan-based web developer). A Section 1(b) Intent-to-Use trademark application means that a person or legal entity has a “ bona fide ” intent to use the trademark “in commerce” in the near future. L’ORÉAL, SA , 979 F. 2d 499, 504 (7th Cir. In Commerce” Requirement.