azrights

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Last week’s newsletter How to avoid the biggest brand management mistakes , highlighted that the role of our business name and signs like logos, taglines, characters, or sounds is to enable buyers to recognise that it’s us. The cancellation of Lacoste’s trademark paved the way for Crocodile to register its own crocodile logo in New Zealand.

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Patent Trademark Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What is a TMA petition based on trademark nonuse? Third parties can now file petitions to remove some or all of the non-used goods or services in a trademark registration without going through the more expensive and lengthy process of a TTAB trademark cancellation. The TMA final rule can be found here.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

How can you realistically enforce your trademarks? Trademark enforcement is not only for millionaires and big companies. Startups and small businesses can use cost-effective ways to stop or discourage trademark infringement. By employing smart tactics, you can increase trademark protection while spending less.

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Patent Trademark Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What happens when a trademark registration is not renewed? Trademark registrations have strict time periods for renewal. In trademark vocabulary, the process of “renewing” a registered trademark is known as post-registration maintenance.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

What factors matter in choosing a trademark opposition attorney? So it appeared that your trademark application was approved and on track to a registration until it got derailed. A third party has filed an opposition with the TTAB to block the registration of your mark. Should you hire a trademark filing service?

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Trademarks indicate the origin of a product. However, shape marks are not easy to register. For being registered as a trademark, the 3D shape of a product must be shown to have an inherent or acquired distinctive character. Representation of the shape marks is shown below: Ferrari’s Trademark Loss.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

Protection for Limited Edition Products under Trademark Law. The biggest challenge that arises when it comes to protecting a limited edition product as a trademark is showing continuous use of the trademark. As a result, Ferrari’s mark was cancelled concerning vehicles due to non-use but remains valid for toy cars.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Would it make sense to send them a trademark infringement letter. Would it make sense to send them a trademark infringement letter. Need to enforce your patent and trademark rights, or reply to a cease-and-desist letter? Need to enforce your patent and trademark rights, or reply to a cease-and-desist letter?

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Let’s look into what those intangible assets might be, and how they can be protected. This is where trademarks play a role. Unlike patents, the role of a trademark is not to signify something new, but rather to indicate the source of the product or service. Trademarks can last indefinitely. So what is IP exactly?

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 7, 2023

Last week was full of exciting discussions on the blog. Discussing the key amendments within the 2023 Act, Lokesh highlights the contentious issues within the law and how they may warrant clarification in the future. Anything important we’re missing out on? Drop us a comment below! The last date to apply is August 12, 2023.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 12, 2022

How to Cancel a Registered Trademark. A trademark cancellation filed with the TTAB would have been the only procedure to discuss. We’ll certainly delve into a TTAB cancellation in this post, but we now have a couple more ways to cancel a trademark registration.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 6, 2021

However, how to act against inappropriate uses? When we start any business, one of the first things to choose is the name that will identify you in the market and, if the homework is done, it will be registered as a trademark (see a related post here ). Let us see it. Forgetting this step can have very negative consequences.

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azrights

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, the law won’t generally stop copying of ideas or business models or colours of other brands unless these are trademarked. Some identifiers can be protected and owned as trademarks as soon as you create them. Others are extremely difficult to secure as trademarks and need a strategy to achieve.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 8, 2024

What if someone else filed for a similar trademark first? I can’t tell you all the reasons why people delay filing a trademark application. Others have already applied for similar trademarks. What are your options if you wish to file for a similar trademark? Need guidance on registering a trademark?

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Patent Trademark Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

How are trademark rights determined in the US? In the US, trademark rights are generally given to the first one to use a mark. Except for a few limited circumstances, the first user is the rightful trademark owner in the US. The term common law arises most frequently in the context of an unregistered trademark.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here are our summaries of the blog posts published last week along with the summaries of some interesting orders from different courts. Ever wonder how they’d describe themselves to each other? Lokesh, in this lovely poem, describes how he’d imagine that conversation would happen, highlighting the overlap between the two.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

From conflicting positions on AI as a co-author of a work to the contours of information required u/s 39 about the patent applications filed abroad, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. Highlights of the Week By Whom and How Are Our Patent Examiners Being Recruited? Sidhi is a final year B.A.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

What is a trademark audit? A trademark audit is a USPTO program to check random trademark registrations to see if the registered trademark is still in use. Known as the Post Registration Audit Program , the goal of the USPTO is to bolster the accuracy and reliability of its trademark register.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. Here’s wishing all our readers a very happy, safe, and healthy new year! b) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) and. H Lundbeck A/S v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Lastly, it notes the US’ previous adverse reactions to India’s moves to bring about drug price regulation and how this move goes against the US’ own stance on the issue. Abony Healthcare Limited granted an ex-parte interim injunction in favour of the plaintiff in a trademark infringement case involving the mark ‘Liv52’.

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