LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2023

Essential Benefits of Trademark Registration – Part 1 Imagine you’ve been using your business name, logo, or slogan for several years, building a good base of local customers. You make moves to expand your market, and suddenly you get a cease-and-desist letter from another business that has better rights to the trademark.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Trademark registration with the United States Patent and Trademark. as low as $225, and the resulting trademark registration provides a. myriad of benefits to its owner: Using the registration symbol (®) looks nice, and the official. registration certificate looks great framed on an office wall to. significance.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Though your mark might not be registered yet, having a pending trademark application will at least start you on the journey toward registration. While registration will ultimately be required, a pending trademark application is sufficient to enable Amazon sellers to begin enrollment. Should you send a trademark cease-and-desist letter?

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Patent Trademark Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Do you need a registration in order to use a trademark? Unless a trademark application is based on a foreign registration , the applicant would be required to show usage of the applied-for mark on the relevant goods or services before the USPTO will issue a trademark registration. Think about your own company.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Before you spend time and money marketing under that business name, you need to make sure it is legally a great name, one you can feel confident in using without running into an unexpected cease and desist request or trademark infringement litigation and the potential catastrophe of forced rebranding on a short time scale.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 9, 2021

Then they received a cease-and-desist letter: another company had already registered the identical brand name for the identical services. The amount of time spent dealing with a dispute when a business doesn’t have a registration is almost certainly going to be more complicated and take longer to resolve.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 10, 2022

The first case deals with the Commission’s issuance of a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist order in Certain In Vitro Fertilization Products, Components Thereof, and Products Containing the Same (Inv. Trademark Registrations. [1] 337-TA-1196). 337-TA-1196). Complaint, at 1. Int’l Trade Comm’n , 598 F.3d

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Image from here Kia Wang vs The Registrar of Trademarks & Anr.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Copyright exists automatically, without the need for registration. Cease and Desist Letters. If you are able to identify the infringer and obtain their contact information (be it a mailing or email address), then you may consider sending a cease and desist letter. The copyright owner controls the use of their work.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 28, 2022

LVB has a federal trademark registration, with the USPTO , for the word mark GENESIS under Registration No. Lafayette, Indiana – The Plaintiff, Lafayette Venetian Blind, Inc., (LVB) LVB) conducts business under the business name “ Lafayette Interior Fashions ” in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Achieve registration. Enforce your trademark , if necessary, by sending cease and desist letters, or take down notices, or otherwise engaging with infringements. Enforce your trademark , if necessary, by sending cease and desist letters, or take down notices, or otherwise engaging with infringements.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

If you have a registration in place three months before an infringement occurs, a judge has more freedom in awarding statutory damages - a range of punishments instead of just compensating you for out-of-pocket damages -- and attorney fees. You'll find help on website registration at the Copyright Office. Register your website.

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The IPKat

MARCH 14, 2024

This post discusses the questions on the issue of joint authorship of audiovisual works and implications of copyright registration, which are raised by this dispute. GMC denied the assertions as false.

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Patently-O

JULY 20, 2023

The proposed registration filings focused on iconic elements of the boot, including the silhouette features shown above. Timberland boots have been on the market for 50 years, and according to the record the company has “never has demanded that competitors cease and desist from selling look-alike boots.”

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Stephen Mouka issued a Cease and Desist Notice to the public after an X user created and shared a limited merchandise bearing the slogan. Things, however, took a different turn in when Njemanze's application and registration of Domittila as a trademark were revoked by the Trademark Tribunal. Katpost on the decision here.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 9, 2022

PUMA applied for a Federal Trademark registration under Application Serial No. Brooks”) cease and desist the use of the Mark NITRO mark in connection with footwear. 97171928 for the mark NITRO for footwear, namely, running shoes, training shoes, and basketball shoes.

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The TTABlog

JULY 29, 2021

In a case decided under the TTAB's ACR regime, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of Nema Foods' twenty-year old registration for the mark SEYIDOGLU (in standard form) for various food items, finding that the mark falsely suggests a connection with Petitioner, a major manufacturer of food products, including Turkish desserts and jams.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Don’t even think about being cheap when it comes to trademark registration. First, you can record a trademark registration with US Customs to block the import of infringing goods. First, you can record a trademark registration with US Customs to block the import of infringing goods. Not all marks, however, qualify.

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Patent Trademark Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

What are your options with a canceled or expired trademark registration? A trademark application may be expedited if a trademark registration was inadvertently canceled or expired. Second, the goods or services in the new application must be identical or narrower than those in the canceled or expired trademark registration.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 9, 2021

Apparently realizing the importance of its brand, Monster owns at least fourteen federal trademark registrations that include the Claw Icon in various classes of goods and services (the “Asserted Marks”). Monster is seeking damages for trademark infringement arising under 15 U.S.C.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 8, 2021

Registration was obtained in March 2018 by decision of the Opposition Division following an unsuccessful opposition filed by Aeroporto di Villanova d’Albenga SpA (Riviera-Airport) (the applicant), which was named Aeroporto Villanova d’Albenga SpA at the time of the opposition. azacilik Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret v EUIPO (C?104/18 104/18 P) ).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In response, on August 28, Hershey sent a cease-and-desist order on its Kisses trademark, which led to the September 28 lawsuit. trademark law, a “lack of inherent distinctiveness” is a common reason for the USPTO to reject a trademark registration—so how was the possibly indistinctive Kisses mark registered?

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Texas Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Know the laws As the laws stand at this time, there is no requirement for the registration of trade secrets in order to have legal protection. The defendant may have to pay monetary damages and adhere to an order to cease and desist. Normally such matters belong in a civil action.

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Texas Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Know the laws As the laws stand at this time, there is no requirement for the registration of trade secrets in order to have legal protection. The defendant may have to pay monetary damages and adhere to an order to cease and desist. Normally such matters belong in a civil action.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

It means you can be the one to send a cease-and-desist letter to a copycat, rather than being on the receiving end of one. Registering your business name this way lets the world know you have the ownership rights to that name when it comes to the goods and services you provide. The post Do You REALLY Own Your Business Name?

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 6, 2021

From that transaction, Energy owns multiple trademark registrations including the three at issue in this case, U.S. Registration Nos. Energy claims it sent a cease and desist letter informing FTA of the Energy Marks and trade dress, but FTA has refused to discontinue its use of the allegedly infringing marks. 1125(a).

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The name Beetlejuice, for example, has multiple registered trademarks related to it including registration number 4863369, which covers the use in “Clothing for men, women and children…”. Lawsuits around these particular issues are rare and the disputes that do arise typically are handled through cease and desist letters or takedown notices.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In the year 2012, the IPAB adjudicated that if a company takes elaborate measures to police the incorrect usage of their trademarks (which includes sending legal notices and cease and desist notices), the trademark in question will not be considered as a generic term. Subsequently, this decision was challenged by the appellant.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 21, 2021

Registration No./Serial As of the filing of the Complaint, Vroom claims Defendants did not respond to any of the cease and desist communications and continued using the Allegedly Infringing Properties. (“Vroom”), the Plaintiff, apparently began selling used vehicles online in 2013. VROOM GET IN. 87/287,698.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

But although this phrase is used by many, two restaurant companies actually own TACO TUESDAY trademark registrations that they can assert as conclusive evidence of their exclusive rights to use the slogan and enforce those rights against anyone who tries to use the mark. Taco Bell is seeking to change that. The Lanham Act, which governs U.S.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Such groundless threats are commonly achieved by sending cease and desist letters or legal notices threatening the recipient with legal proceedings. opposed the registration of a logo of pear by Prepear for being similar to its Apple logo. A widely discussed example was when Apple Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 21, 2021

Last year his Area 51 service was shut down following a cease-and-desist issued by the Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE). Changes to domain registration records must be prevented and all must be disabled to prevent public access. Early July in a California court, Warner Bros.,

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The IPKat

MARCH 8, 2023

In such a situation, the owner may not invalidate the later mark or take action against its use in respect of the goods or services for which the later trade mark has been used, unless registration of the later mark was applied for in bad faith (Art. 9(1),(3) of Directive (EU) 2015/2436 (‘EUTMD’)).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

We recommend hiring the services of an IP attorney who will help find the right name and guide you throughout the trademark registration process. Further, using legal assistance and adopting traditional enforcement strategies like a cease and desist notice may also help enforce trademark rights. Protecting brands.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Startups can protect both the source code and object code through copyright registration. However, even with proper IP registration, infringement can occur, threatening the startup’s growth and potential success. Additionally, copyrights can also extend to website content, graphic designs, logos, videos, and other digital assets.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 28, 2023

If a preliminary screen shows results indicating good odds for success in getting a registration, something of a friendly field, you can pursue your trademark application with more confidence; conversely, if the preliminary screen reveals an uncertain or narrow field, you can take the time to consider the strategy that will work best for you.

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Intepat

JUNE 5, 2023

Background In 2018, PhonePe sent a cease and desist notice to the Defendant, requesting that they cease using the brand name with the ‘Pe’ component written in the Devanagari script. BharatPe subsequently modified its brand name to ‘BharatPe’ without the word ‘Pe’ in the Devanagari script.

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