IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2022

This popular case originated from a long-running legal dispute involving the Petitioner, Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. Lucky Brand), and the Respondent, Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. Lucky Brand claimed a defense against Marcel in the most recent case between the two, which it had not fully explored in a previous suit between them.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 13, 2022

With the Metaverse and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) being the common buzzwords as of late, the USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) has been experiencing a significant rise in the number of Trademark Applications filed in the virtual sphere to safeguard the products and services. A Comprehensive Approach to IPRs.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Whilst the SPB Team does not blindly follow trends, we are advising all our trademark clients (even the more “conservative” ones) now to file trademarks covering goods and services related to the Metaverse. Here is why: New opportunities for growing your brand. Why you need new trademark registrations now.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

Whilst the SPB Team does not blindly follow trends, we are advising all our trademark clients (even the more “conservative” ones) now to file trademarks covering goods and services related to the Metaverse. Here is why: New opportunities for growing your brand. Why you need new trademark registrations now.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. Corporations must establish online identities, such as logos, slogans, product names, and brands, to build consumer awareness, loyalty, and trust.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When we talk about building brand image and attraction, fashion companies put in a lot of time, money, effort, and hard work. Trade dress protection falls under trademark law as the design functions as a trademark, i.e., identifying a product emerging from a specific fashion house or fashion designer.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Trademarks are an excellent way to protect your brand. Unlike patents or copyrights which protect specific products or works, a trademark distinguishes your company from others. The important thing to remember with trademarks is that they must always function to identify your company as the source of the goods or services.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

There are two types of patents that Amazon sellers should be familiar with, utility patents and design patents. Utility patents protect functional aspects of a product, and design patents protect the appearance of a product. This can lead to expensive “false marketing” litigation. Registering trademarks with the U.S.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Don’t even think about being cheap when it comes to trademark registration. Without a properly registered trademark, you’ll end up with fewer options and greater costs to enforce your limited trademark rights. So how can you enforce a registered trademark inexpensively?

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Trademarks: Trademarks safeguard brand names, logos, symbols, or phrases that distinguish a startup’s products or services from competitors’ Registering a trademark ensures exclusive usage and prevents others from causing confusion among consumers. Firstly, trademarks ensure brand exclusivity.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

These NFT drops offer valuable learning lessons which every NFT project, brand, and company must consider before launching their NFTs project. In this video, we will also examine the legal strategies each project got right on trademark registration and copyright licensing. What Is A Trademark & How Does It Impact NFT Drops?

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. Characters are often protected by copyright, even if their fashion is not, but they are also routinely protected by trademark. Trademark infringement, however, isn’t like copyright.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A bit of factual background before we move ahead to the legal analysis: Allied Blenders, a liquor manufacturer, has held a registered trademark for ‘OFFICER’S CHOICE PRESTIGE WHISKY’ label since 2013. Hermes Distillery (P) Ltd. ’ In the case of Pernod Ricard India Private Limited v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Many trademark attorneys and professors hoped the Supreme Court would provide more guidance on how to resolve conflicts between trademark and free speech rights in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. VIP Products LLC, a dispute involving a “Bad Spaniels” dog toy parody of Jack Daniel’s brand of whisky.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Are Amazon sellers using a similar brand or product name? Would it make sense to send them a trademark infringement letter. In declaratory judgment litigation, the positions are reversed. A larger company with more financial resources can use the high cost of litigation as a weapon to get what they want.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2023

Another surprising addition to Willie’s intellectual stockpile is his line of eco-friendly guitar picks, made from sustainable materials and designed to biodegrade after use. ” Even his famous bandana has become a registered trademark. It seems that the Red Headed Stranger’s creativity knows no bounds.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Controller of Patents and Designs made some interesting observations on this issue. The Court granted the ex parte ad interim injunction in favor of the Plaintiff as prima facie , the defendant’s mark, JK Copper+ Water, did infringed the registered trademark of Plaintiff. The MHC in Novozymes v. Legislative Oversight?

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Industria, based on Colombia, produces and distributes food products under two relevant brand names: Zenú and Ranchera. They’re successful brands: approximately $300,000,000 annually in sales of Zenú products and $100,000,000 in sales of Ranchera products. Its cancellation petition for Zenú has been suspended during this litigation.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Unlike patents, the role of a trademark is not to signify something new, but rather to indicate the source of the product or service. When consumers see a particular brand, the mark tells them that the product comes from a particular company. Customers might expect to pay more, or less, depending upon the brand of the product.

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Kashishipr

JULY 13, 2022

Undoubtedly, both technologies bring a complete set of novel Intellectual Property (IP) issues for business companies, brands, individuals, courts, and IP practitioners. In the AR field, patent litigation has already commenced for AR hardware and some applications or uses of AR.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Bhole Baba Milk Food Industries Ltd [8] , The Parul food Pvt ltd, sold ghee under the brand “Parul’s Lord Krishna,” which featured Krishna printed in a huge font, whereas the Appellant sold dairy products under the name “KRISHNA.” In Parul Food Specialities Pvt.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I’ve left out the parts specific to registered trademarks and the reference to treaties. But no special protection should apply when D has used mark as a designation of source for its own goods/services: in the way the Lanham Act most cares about. Kagan describes it as “designation of source.” But what is TM use?

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SpicyIP

MARCH 25, 2024

Zydus Lifesciences Limited, on 13 March 2024 (Delhi High Court ) The case centered on the establishment of a confidentiality club in a biosimilar litigation dispute. Despite this, the petitioner claimed that nine out of 26 designs are still being used by the respondents, identical to their own. Christian Louboutin Sas & Anr v.s

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It seems like there are two issues involved in this litigation- first, regarding use of confidential information and second, concerning passing off. The Plaintiff had alleged that the Defendants’ use of identical mark is infringing its registered trademarks, copyright and is also causing confusion in minds of the purchasing public.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Delhi High Court to revisit the issue “ whether rights under registered trademarks can be enforced after giving up the right to file actionable claims qua the same by claiming an exemption from GST ” Directs the Senior Standing Counsel, Dept. vs Assistant Controller Of Patents and Designs on 5 January, 2023 (Delhi High Court).

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

VIP Products, the Court held that it did not need to apply or even decide the validity of a speech-protective limit on trademark law designed to prevent trademark owners from shutting down expressive works that comment on trademarks, known as the Rogers test.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

registered trademark may recover damages for uses of that trademark that occurred outside the United States and that were not likely to cause consumer confusion in the United States. brand owner’s enforcement strategy, foreign businesses who intentionally “get too close” to a U.S. Abitron Austria GmbH v.

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