Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

Several times, we see that luxury brands come up with limited edition products, whether it is cars, watches, cosmetics, chocolates, electronics, etc., Protection for Limited Edition Products under Trademark Law. This issue was very recently seen in the case of the limited-edition Ferrari 250 GTO.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The following is an edited transcript of my video, What Is a Likelihood of Confusion. A phrase that comes up all the time in several different aspects of trademark work is likelihood of confusion. Patent and Trademark Office, because the examiner asserts that the applied-for mark is likely to be confused with the registered trademark.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

The development of Artificial Intelligence, from being able to create edited photos to now generating deepfake videos that cannot be distinguished from real videos, has created an imminent threat to intellectual property rights and personality rights specifically. It is a common tort law aspect and can be used for unregistered trademarks.

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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. However, shape marks are not easy to register. Representation of the shape marks is shown below: Ferrari’s Trademark Loss. The protection only applies in the UK.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 25, 2024

Sunanda Bharti on the Michelin Stars and its interaction was trademark laws. Bharti is a Professor of Law at Delhi University, and her previous posts can be accessed here. Image from here Mischief, Manifestation, and the Michelin Trademark! What is a Michelin Star in Terms of Intellectual Property Law?

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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 of 37 CFR Part 6, aligning it with the 12th edition, version 2024, of the Nice Classification published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

My former student Grace McLaughlin has written an excellent note about the fact that these putative trademarks don’t serve human trademark functions—it’s very hard to remember them or distinguish one random string from another random string in terms of knowing what you’ve seen before—and has proposed some possible responses from the PTO.

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