Intepat

JUNE 11, 2024

This Madrid system has significantly impacted global trademark registration, with over a million registrations worldwide. A key feature of the Madrid System is the provisional refusal, an initial objection from a national trademark office to an international trademark application.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The legal world is buzzing about AI and its use for all kinds of things, including generating logos, text, and other things people would normally want to register for copyright or trademark protection. I made a logo for Bob’s Burgers for selling burgers on Tailor Brands’ logo maker website.

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Kashishipr

MARCH 2, 2022

What happens after you get your mark registered as a trademark? Your Trademark Application gets approved, and you receive your registration certificate. Don’t let that Trademark Registration certificate fool you. Furthermore, it will also never enforce your trademark rights on your behalf.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Take a quick look at some of the welcome changes, such as ensuring accessibility for PwDs, and understand how these rules differ from their Delhi and Madras counterparts. Take a quick look at some of the welcome changes, such as ensuring accessibility for PwDs, and understand how these rules differ from their Delhi and Madras counterparts.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Trademarks indicate the origin of a product. While they commonly consist of a brand name or logo, the shape of a product may also be an indication of its origin. For being registered as a trademark, the 3D shape of a product must be shown to have an inherent or acquired distinctive character.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

The dispute concerned the geographical indication "Salaparuta" for Sicilian wine, which received protection in Italy in 2006, and then was registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) by the European Commission in 2009. The wine brand had been around since the nineteenth century but changed ownership a few times.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2024

We presented a webinar last week entitled How to Win Your Next Trademark Battle: Lessons Learned in 2023 to give brand owners and their lawyers an overview of key takeaways from last year’s trademark cases. misuse of their trademarks when drafting license or distribution agreements with non-U.S.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

27, 2023) Industria sued Latinfood for trademark and copyright infringement; Latinfood counterclaimed for tortious interference against Industria and another counterdefendant Cordialsa. Industria, based on Colombia, produces and distributes food products under two relevant brand names: Zenú and Ranchera.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

35: TTAB Grants MIRAGE BRANDS Cancellation Petition Due To Likelihood of Reverse Confusion On Remand from the CAFC, TTAB Denies Petition for Cancellation of "NAKED" Registration for Condoms TTABlog Test: Three Recent Section 2(d) Inter Partes Cases - How Did They Come Out? [Yes] & Design" for Beer?

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On November 30, 2023, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) officially retires their clunky, 90s-era Trademark Electronic Search System (the “Old TESS”). I call it “ New TESS ” and show you how to use “Advanced Searches” in plain English. AND, OR, AND NOT).

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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. Would it make sense to send them a trademark infringement letter. Need to enforce your patent and trademark rights, or reply to a cease-and-desist letter? Why send a cease-and-desist letter?

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

In our continuing effort to combat trademark scams and raise awareness of this important issue, we have recently submitted comments to the FTC. Because there are many types of fraud and government impersonation, only a handful of other commenters mentioned trademark issues. ” More than 100 comments were submitted.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

2024 Changes to International Trademark Classifications by Melanie Lane Understanding WIPO’s 2024 Nice Classification Changes: Impact on the USPTO’s §6.1 These updates will have implications for trademark holders in various classes, with a special emphasis on Class 3. trademark holders to stay updated.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Let’s look into what those intangible assets might be, and how they can be protected. This is where trademarks play a role. Unlike patents, the role of a trademark is not to signify something new, but rather to indicate the source of the product or service. Trademarks can last indefinitely. So what is IP exactly?

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are three distinct trademark symbols you may use is the registered trademark symbol “R” (®) , the small “ TM” ( ) symbol , and the “SM” (℠) symbol. Overview: Which Trademark Symbol Should I Use? Put the ® to the upper right of your trademark. What Are Trademarks?

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MARCH 22, 2021

Trademarks are powerful marketing tools that can help a potential customer not only to recall the associated brand but also to affiliate the words of the trademark with that brand. You may want to trademark a phrase to control how your brand is perceived in the minds of potential customers.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Mary Katherine Amerine, Reasonably Careless Consumers in TM & False Advertising How do courts treat consumers in TM and false advertising cases? end products, or products where the consumers will care which brand they got more or less. Beer Nuts, Bulls’ Eye v. Raging Bull for barbecue sauce, Powerbar v. Dougies for diapers.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Banksy Case: registration of a trademark in bad faith and the price of anonymity. The EUIPO has cancelled street artist Banksy’s trademark for the well-known artwork ‘Flower Bomber” on the grounds that it was filed in bad faith. How do you protect a website? There will be a sequel!

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A variant of separating the mark from the brand; not seeing it in all categories, and we may have a world in which some marks—maybe the 1%--are not divided from brands but the others are. 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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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

This basic question has three different answers, all regularly used in any given jurisdiction—this is not a matter of circuit splits. The answers are yes, no, and sometimes, a list both comprehensive and dismaying. This is unsurprising: Rogers itself was based on an opposition between “artistic expression” and “commercial speech.”

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Intellectual property (IP) has become a critical aspect of business strategy, especially with the rise in counterfeit goods and bad-faith trademark registrations in foreign markets that seek to exploit well-known brands. India is no exception, and navigating the country’s trademark registration process can be complex.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, brand value, copyright, etc have become foundational assets for several businesses, seeking greater importance and attention. As a result of new technologies, and a rapid increase in innovation and creativity, intellectual capital has emerged as valuable assets for businesses.

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SpicyIP

JULY 29, 2024

Other Posts Madras HC on Computer Program and 3(k): Following the DHC way Discussing what could be MHC’s first authoritative decision on the patentability of computer programs under Section 3(k), Yogesh Byadwal highlights how the Court’s approach differed from or aligned with the DHC’s precedents on this issue.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I am unaware of any reported comparison, but I did find the latter compared to a toilet flushing and have seen the former’s trademark suffer indignities at times too ). Every sound trademark seems not only to signify something but to raise a question or two as well. There’s no roar quite like a Nittany Lion’s!

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so we have a fair sprinkling of cases dealing with copyright, patents, trademarks, competition law etc. Here’s wishing all our readers a very happy, safe, and healthy new year! b) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) and. H Lundbeck A/S v.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

UCLA School of Law Mark Janis: 1 st day of TM: students’ experience of brands as used by owners & 3 rd parties is so disconnected from the historical traditions of TM. JDPI amicus brief was describing how LOC factors were not developed for these kinds of cases. Are our doctrinal tools workable for the conflicts that arise?

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The famous brand Lays, during the ICC World Cup 2011 launched 6 new flavors, named after the countries playing the match, India, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Australia, England, and South Africa. But how can these Limited-Edition Products be protected? COPYRIGHT OR DESIGN. These products are named “Limited Editions”.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 5, 2022

Tempting Brands Netherlands B.V. The TTAB dismissed the Olympic Committee’s opposition to registration of the mark PIERRE DE COUBERTIN for various goods in classes 3, 9, 14, 18, 25, and 28, including perfume, sunglasses, jewelry, luggage, clothing, and sporting goods. The United States Olympic Committee v. TTABlogged here ].

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2023

Discussing the Relevance of the Responses Filed Against FERs Issued by Trademark Registry Image from here Is FER and its Reply relevant after a mark is registered? The author questions this order, looking at prior case laws, and discusses how it inadvertently also limits the importance of the documents in rectification matters.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. Nataraj, Ms.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Begin with legislative action: Trademark Modernization Act, Which introduces three of the big themes of the year: (1) trademark use, (2) the harm of infringement, and (3) the role of the First Amendment in limiting the scope of trademark rights. My presentation, galloping across a bunch of developments. Slides here.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Introduction: Rebecca Tushnet What might we derive from things the Court has said about trademark of late? The purpose of trademark is consumer protection; source-identification is the most relevant consideration but not the entirety of TM law. Maybe to this we can add in Dastar. Dinwoodie and Janis taken out of context?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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”). It includes the addition of 23 new articles, as well as organizational or substantive revisions to 51 articles of the current Trademark Law.

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