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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]. In Parul Food Specialities Pvt.

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Call for Nominations for IPLAC Creator of the Year

Chicago IP

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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Call for Nominations for IPLAC Creator of the Year

LexBlog IP

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

Another crucial change is abolishing the national regime of exhaustion of IP rights for certain goods and brands. The list includes such well-known brands as Apple, HP, Panasonic, Siemens, Tesla, and Volkswagen. Is anything here on the list? For this reason, the Peppa Pig decision cannot serve as a judicial precedent.

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The Failure-to-Function Doctrine

IP and Legal Filings

Typically, the marks that are informative or descriptive of the product, or those which convey a message that is commonly used, or is generally used to express religious, political or social views, etc, may face rejection based on failure to function. Marks consisting of designs or patterns may also be rejected as a failure to function.

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Trademark Glossary of Terms

Corsearch

B What is a brand? This is often understood simply as a synonym to trademark, but nowadays a brand is seen as the sum of all of customers’ experiences of the company or product in question. Trademarks are those elements of a brand which can be legally protected. C What is a trademark cancellation?

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Full Of Sound And Query, Signifying Something: Recent Noise Over Acoustic Trademarks

LexBlog IP

The TMEP lists ‘a series of tones or musical notes’ and ‘wording accompanied by music’ as two examples of potentially registrable forms of sound marks. 3618321), and “[t]he NBC chimes sequence [, which] actually became the first ‘purely audible’ service mark to register with the USPTO in 1950.”