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Cease-and-Desist Letter: How to Use It Effectively or Reply

Patent Trademark Blog

Why send a cease-and-desist letter? On its surface, a cease-and-desist letter seems like a less expensive way to enforce intellectual property rights. Are competitors copying your products? Perhaps you might want to send them a C&D letter to get them to respect your patents.

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Startups can secure copyrights to prevent unauthorized copying or distribution of their creative works. This means that no one else can copy or distribute their creations without permission. To obtain copyright protection, startups do not need to register their works as copyrights automatically exist upon creation.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

Your Copy-Rights. For example, when uploading artwork to Artrepreneur, the artist also gives the company a limited right to copy, display, and distribute digital copies of the artwork as needed to provide the services of the website. Trademark protects words, symbols, and slogans that identify products or services.

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

Art Law Journal

Your Copy-Rights. For example, when uploading artwork to Artrepreneur, the artist also gives the company a limited right to copy, display, and distribute digital copies of the artwork as needed to provide the services of the website. Trademark protects words, symbols, and slogans that identify products or services.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

SpicyIP

Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. In this case, the Plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the mark “Footlockers” since 1988, has not used it for 30 years.

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