IP Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2024

Trademark owners should be wary of official-looking email solicitations from attorneys or law firms that claim to specialize in trademarks and are masquerading as Good Samaritans who wish to aid in protecting the company’s brand against another company that has contracted that firm to register the same mark.

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Trademark Branding Brands Branding 59

Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

According to SSPL, this practice was dishonest as it could make NTC benefit from the reputation and goodwill of SSPL’s brand name. According to NTC, the SSPL label mark was only a registered trademark, and therefore, it couldn’t be used as an artistic work. Defendant’s Response. Concluding Remarks.

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Registration Artistic Work Copyright Registering Trademarks 98

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 22, 2022

We recently spoke with Omolara (Lara) Kayode about brand protection in Nigeria. Kayode & Co, a boutique IP law firm with offices in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. Lara is a leader in Africa trademark law, and represents the interests of numerous international companies in counterfeit enforcement and brand protection matters.

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Trademark Registration Branding Brands 52

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 22, 2022

We recently spoke with Omalara (Lara) Kayode , about brand protection in Nigeria. Kayode & Co, a boutique IP law firm with offices in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria. Lara is a leader in Africa trademark law, and represents the interests of numerous international companies in counterfeit enforcement and brand protection matters.

Trademark 52

Trademark Registration Branding Brands 52

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

In this judgment, the Delhi High Court delved into the interpretation of section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 with respect to disputes involving trademark licensing agreements. This case involved Sun Pharmaceuticals allegedly infringing Cipla’s copyright and registered trademark. Cipla Ltd [Madras High Court].

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IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

My former student Grace McLaughlin has written an excellent note about the fact that these putative trademarks don’t serve human trademark functions—it’s very hard to remember them or distinguish one random string from another random string in terms of knowing what you’ve seen before—and has proposed some possible responses from the PTO.

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IP Trademark Advertising Advertising 94