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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction A mark represents the institution or company to which it belongs and serves as a means of differentiating goods or services among individuals. Marks can be of various types i.e., word marks, service marks, logos, symbols, series marks, etc [1].

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Difference Between Trademark And Design Registration In India

IP and Legal Filings

Trademark, and design are two very crucial kinds of IPRs which provide a certain extent of protection at their levels. There exist several IPRs and it is important to be aware of which one is suitable for your brand/ business. There are many more provisions other than those that safeguard the design rights.

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Trade Dress Protection: Laws and Its Relevance

IP and Legal Filings

For one, when a trade dress is exclusive to a particular brand, consumers may interlink its external appearance to the company and the quality of its products. Thus, the trade dress here acts as a metonym for the brand. Additionally, a brand can also license a trade dress in order to obtain monetary advantages.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

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In the spring and summer of 2022, following the international sanctions imposed upon Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, Russia introduced several landmark changes to its IP law, most notably to patent, trademark and copyright laws. The list includes such well-known brands as Apple, HP, Panasonic, Siemens, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

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The Failure-to-Function Doctrine

IP and Legal Filings

The more familiar the term or phrase is, the less likely it will be a mark that could be used to identify a single source of goods or services. Marks consisting of designs or patterns may also be rejected as a failure to function. Descriptive marks directly convey information about the product or service.

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Marketing and IPR

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction It often happens that a company’s trademark is confused with its brand and on top of that, the brand name or trade name. A trade name often is designated by the term “doing business as,” “trading as,” or “operating as” to make this distinction from the legal name.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).