IP Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2024

Trademark owners should be wary of official-looking email solicitations from attorneys or law firms that claim to specialize in trademarks and are masquerading as Good Samaritans who wish to aid in protecting the company’s brand against another company that has contracted that firm to register the same mark.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 26, 2022

This involved updating Alectra’s record of registered trademarks using information from external legal counsel. My unique contributions to the audit included drafting memoranda for departments, requesting information that could be helpful to Alectra in trademark opposition and expungement proceedings.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). They require both chain of tile and a contract setting forth the seller and buyers’ essential contract terms. NFTs are no different.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While Morison branded its medicine with the generic “PARACETAMOL”, with reference to its registered trademarks “MSJ” and “MORISON” on the packaging, CPL used the name “CONPHAMOL”. CPL had a registered trademark in the word “Conphamol” and the design of the product packaging.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In times past, IP Protection was primarily based on retaining the knowledge possessed by people within a team by using mechanisms like contracts and agreements to prevent employees from leaving the company and joining the competitors in the market.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Court of Rome sets a landmark precedent by granting an injunction against the creator of NFTs displaying images of a football player, reproducing without authorization the registered trademarks owned by Italian football club Juventus FC.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2021

s copyright and registered trademark. It was highlighted in the pleading of the Defendant that in the backdrop of pandemic, the medicines produced by the Company were in high demand due to their medicinal characteristic of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the fatal Covid-19 virus.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Facts in brief – In the Abdul Rasul case, the plaintiff claimed the infringement and passing off of its registered trademark “REGAL” used for footwear retail. The following two pieces, written over 10 years ago, also make a claim about the contraction of HCU. It claimed to have used the mark since 1954.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 23, 2021

One of the biggest advantages of big data being safeguarded as a trade secret is that what may not be protectable as a patent, like individual ingredients or elements of a particular data, maybe protectable through trade secrets by the application of contracts and technological protection measures.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

Although the final decision of whether or not a trade secret is infringed upon varies from one case to another, unfair practices concerning confidential info usually include breach of contract, industrial or commercial espionage, and breach of confidence.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 1, 2022

The registered proprietor of the industrial design has to select one of the alternative remedies available in this Section. Section 22(a) of the Act enforces the infringer of the industrial design to pay an amount not exceeding Rs 25,000 for every contravention recoverable as a contract debt to its registered proprietor.

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azrights

APRIL 22, 2021

You can safeguard your know-how, secure your contracts, or start franchising and licensing among many other things. IP input is essential and goes beyond undertaking legal availability searches and registering trademarks. The right IP strategy will be decided based on your business model. Such assets are cheaper to enforce.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 5, 2024

Plaintiff has seven registered trademarks involving Florida Virtual School or FLVS; two of the registrations are incontestable. About a year later, plaintiff demanded that defendants stop using that too, which they did, but plaintiff sued anyway, seeking (by the time of trial) an injunction and disgorgement.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Firstly, it is imperative to understand that an IP license is a contract or an agreement between the licensor and the licensee. If a business company or organization is looking forward to licensing its IP assets, some specific aspects need to be considered.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

In legal terms, it is a contract signed amongst at least two parties looking forward to detailing confidential knowledge, clauses, statements, or any information they wish to restrict from access by third parties.

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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Besides, to avoid legal matters arising from your supply chain, you should enter into well-defined contracts having proper IP-indemnification clauses with the suppliers. Valuable Contribution of IP Departments. It often becomes arduous to explain the valuable role and contribution of the members of an IP department.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

Social media influencers sign contracts with businesses to promote their products by providing original content for such brands. Build your market reputation. Maintain your distinct brand identity. . Who owns the intellectual property (IP) developed for the purpose of Influencer Marketing?

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Kashishipr

JUNE 29, 2022

For placing a value on your IP asset, it must fulfill the conditions mentioned below: It should be identified separately, i.e., subject to some particular identification, along with a recognizable description; It should have tangible evidence of existence in the form of a contract, license, record in financial statements, registration document, and (..)

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2022

NFTs are data units stored on a blockchain used to transfer ownership of physical items or digital media with smart contracts. This allows brands to identify infringers attempting to register trademarks or domain names using well-known marks. The NFTs act to authenticate these items.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 30, 2021

Such modularity may not be specific only to formal IPRs like patents, copyright, industrial designs, or licensing contracts but also extend to informal forms of IPRs like trade secrets, etc., as has also been observed above.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 31, 2021

The convention in its preamble itself acknowledges that traditional knowledge can make both the conservation and the sustainable use of biological diversity possible. ” With specific reference to Article 8(j), the Conference of the Parties has established a working group in furtherance of meeting the objective stated therein.

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Kashishipr

JULY 14, 2021

Furthermore, a recipe may be well-guarded in addition to the application of the said laws by signing agreements and contracts to ensure non-disclosure. ? However, the most sought method is that of trade secrets since they help to maintain a competitive advantage in the market without the time-barred restraint. For more visit: [link].

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Kashishipr

JULY 7, 2021

Another mode of protection could be through enforcement of the law against industrial or commercial espionage, breach of contract, and breach of confidence. Let us consider a few examples of relevant trade secrets that several entities have secured successfully over the years. The secret formula of Coca-Cola is locked in a bank vault.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Nice Agreement, concluded at Nice in 1957, revised at Stockholm in 1967 and at Geneva in 1977, and amended in 1979, establishes a classification of goods and services for the purposes of registering trademarks and service marks (the Nice Classification).

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Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the era of globalization, companies with international operations must secure trademark registrations in multiple countries. This raises the question of how to register a trademark in various jurisdictions, and in this article, we focus on the methods available for registering trademarks in India.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Use of Smart Contracts. The introduction of smart contracts has undoubtedly increased the utility of implementing blockchain to safeguard one’s IP assets. Additionally, smart contracts can be utilized to collect royalties from individuals who use and establish IP assets by establishing a contract.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Delhi High Court to revisit the issue “ whether rights under registered trademarks can be enforced after giving up the right to file actionable claims qua the same by claiming an exemption from GST ” Directs the Senior Standing Counsel, Dept. Revenue to share copy of its report filed earlier. Case: Global Music Junction Pvt.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The court held that it cannot decide at an interim stage on the question of whether an injunction can be obtained in the light of Sections 41 and 14 of the Specific Relief Act, read with Section 27 of the Contract Act. Dismissing the argument, the court clarified that invalidity is a mixed question of fact and law and has to be pleaded.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. Likewise, it makes no sense for a company not to have a firm understanding of its potential intellectual property assets.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. Likewise, it makes no sense for a company not to have a firm understanding of its potential intellectual property assets.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

NFTs are created using “smart contracts,” which are software codes that govern actions such as validating ownership and regulating their transferability. This endows NFTs with the unique qualities that make them so desirable. If NFTs are classified as the latter, they are prohibited from being exchanged, traded, sold, or bought.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 30, 2021

and the socio-legal opportunism of the defendants’ arguments for condonable trademark infringement, set in the backdrop of the ongoing global pandemic. s copyright and registered trademark by thrusting its deceptively similar goods and flooding the high-in-demand but low-in-knowhow market, with its imitation products.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 22, 2022

Sealing and Registration: Where no opposition was filed against the trademark application, the next stage shall involve payment of the sealing fee in order that the registration certificate may be processed and issued. This is mainly due to the fact that unregistered trademarks are accorded no statutory protection under Nigerian law.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 22, 2022

Sealing and Registration: Where no opposition was filed against the trademark application, the next stage shall involve payment of the sealing fee in order that the registration certificate may be processed and issued. This is mainly due to the fact that unregistered trademarks are accorded no statutory protection under Nigerian law.

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

After perusing the material on record, the court concluded that Brompton had no privity of contract with YSL and the Supply Agreement with Beverly from which Brompton claims to derive its rights was in contravention of the original Franchise Agreement with YSL. Case: Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd vs Finecure Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Ors.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

This case involved Sun Pharmaceuticals allegedly infringing Cipla’s copyright and registered trademark. The argument of urgency and public interest was held to not have a bearing on the question of trademark infringement and that such a ground could not be a reason to violate the plaintiff’s rights.

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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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