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WIPIP session 7: Design Law

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Applications w/controversial content may get an “unofficial suspension”—application to register swastika filed shortly after Tam, and wasn’t examined for over 2 years and 2 months; 8 times longer than the average 2.7 Gilden: the patent side has categories for, e.g., devices for genital massage. At the Disco joke to be made here.]

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

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Unfortunately, Intellectual Property law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which type of Intellectual Property (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work. Take these two commonly heard phrases: “I need to copyright my company name,” and “I want to patent my new idea.”.

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What is intellectual property (IP)?

Patent Trademark Blog

Let’s look into what those intangible assets might be, and how they can be protected. Names or logos used to sell a product may be protectable even if the product itself is nothing new. Names or logos used to sell a product may be protectable even if the product itself is nothing new. Yes, you certainly can.

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Protecting Product and Packaging Designs in China Part I – Trademarks

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Like the United States, China offers protection for 2D and 3D designs of products and packaging, which is often known by U.S. It focuses on the similarities and dissimilarities of different aspects of intellectual property (IP) law in China and how they interact with each other. Protection of 2D Designs.

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TMSR Session 3: Private Actors…and their Machines

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When things are happening en masse at a business, just as in the TM system, w/o individualized attention and with a different agenda than the law’s, you can see the law’s protective features be minimized. We like how they sort us/how we get to identify with them? How much of that is cultural? Human desire for TMs?

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Which Types of IP (Intellectual Property) Protection Do Artists Need?

Art Law Journal

Unfortunately, IP law has gotten so complicated that many people aren’t even sure which types of IP (copyright, trademarks, or patents) protects their creative work. Take these two commonly heard phrases: “I need to copyright my company name,” and “I want to patent my new idea.”. We’ll get back to these statements later.).

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TMSR Session 2: Administrative Agencies and Specialized Courts

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But to deal with different holidays in different states, emergency legislation was passed within weeks so the Office would know how to count deadlines. But to deal with different holidays in different states, emergency legislation was passed within weeks so the Office would know how to count deadlines.