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From Fruit to Fortune: Apple’s Trademark Journey and Their Fierce Protection Strategy

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This success is largely attributed to Apple’s effective trademarking of various designs and sounds related to its products and services. This success is largely attributed to Apple’s effective trademarking of various designs and sounds related to its products and services. Prior Registration and Use: Apple Inc.

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Brand Identifiers are Key to Managing Competition

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Some will copy blatantly, others are more savvy so will copy what they calculate they can get away with. People’s sense of what is unethical and unfair copying is often out of line with the law’s approach to regulating competition. Essentially this is the role of brand codes – to uniquely identify your brand so there is no confusion.

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Outcome of Hermes Claim Against MetaBirkin NFT May Provide Glimpse of Future for Fashion, Art in Metaverse

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Hermes recently sued a digital artist for knocking off its Birkin handbag through the issuance of MetaBirkin non-fungible tokens (“NFT”). For those not aware of the filing or related media attention, the artist created fuzzy images of the Hermes Birkin handbag and minted them as NFTs. Grimaldi , 875 F.2d 2d 994 (2d Cir.

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How to Know When to Change Your Patent Lawyer

Patent Trademark Blog

What are the signs that you need a new patent lawyer? If the time is right to make a change, how do you go about finding the right patent attorney ? Need a new patent attorney? What are some excuses that do not justify changing your patent lawyer? The patent application process is inherently challenging.

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TM Scholars' Roundtable: Session 2: Relevance of Ornamentality Elsewhere in Trademark Law

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For example, embedded within analysis of likely confusion factors? In what ways is the ornamental nature of a defendant’s use relevant to defences based on artistic or expressive use (or some other defence)? May be harder to show likely confusion where there’s no distinctiveness; focus on distinctive components may be part of that.