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Should Lawyers Offer A Brand Creation Service?

azrights

Though many important decisions people make when creating a new brand identity are intellectual property decisions, IP lawyers are rarely involved in the naming and brand creation process. . As a trademark lawyer, I began to ask myself why? There are a wide range of companies offering branding services.

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Distinctiveness in Trademark Law

azrights

The law is not there to reduce competition by giving a monopoly right over generic, common category terms and elements to a single brand owner. For example, Pizza Express is trademarked. Obviously, this doesn’t stop anyone else who sells pizza from using the word pizza to describe their offerings or as part of their brand names.

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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

As a result, the rise of hypersensitivity to religion, religious texts, and religious symbols determines the jurisprudence around the utilisation of such marks under Indian trademark law, even if they are not strictly prohibited. Difference Between Trademark and Service Mark. In Parul Food Specialities Pvt. 1] Acharya, M.

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Protection of Color Trademarks under the Indian Trademark Law

Kashishipr

The single color or color combination of a product’s packaging can obtain Trademark Protection only if it is capable enough to be recognized by the general public as unique or belonging to a specific brand. It also encourages safeguarding the interests of the traders and consumers in the market. For more visit: [link].

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What's in a trademark? By any other name, would a $400 pineapple taste as sweet?

The IPKat

A Kat reflecting on emerging branding strategies for plants. Why does the patent use a different name from the registered trademark? And what can this tell us about branding strategy for plants? Unlike PVR law, however, trademark law imposes no obligations to maintain a direct link between a name and a plant.

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CNIPA Issues Significant Draft Amendment to the PRC Trademark Law

LexBlog IP

On January 13, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) circulated a draft amendment to the PRC Trademark Law for public comment (“TML Draft Amendment”). The CNIPA Draft Amendment is comprised of a total of 101 articles in 10 chapters (as opposed to 73 articles in 8 chapters in the current law).

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Santa Clause and IP

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Santa Claus art works which are often used by brands to promote their Christmas related products can be protected copyright law. Commercial exploitation of Santa Clause depicted in any unique way can be done without attracting IP violations as no particular person or entity owns the character of Santa Claus.

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