The TTABlog

MARCH 2, 2022

United Trademark Holdings, Inc. It has used TINKER BELL as a trademark for dolls since 2007 and registered the mark in 2009 without a Section 2(f) acquired distinctiveness claim. The dolls themselves are protectable by copyright and/or design patent, but their names should be free to use as long as the source is distinguished.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The CAFC explained that an entity that is the source of a varietal may use a particular term as a trademark for its specific varietal, but it must be clear that there is also a generic name for the varietal. This notion reflects the Board’s earlier decisions that if the term is used as a designation of source (i.e.,

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

This is where trademarks play a role. Unlike patents, the role of a trademark is not to signify something new, but rather to indicate the source of the product or service. Trademarks can last indefinitely. Unlike patents, trademarks do not necessarily need to be registered in order to be protectable.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 27, 2023

Color drawings are not permitted in international patent applications (see PCT Rule 11.13). Patent and Trademark Office (“Office”) will accept color drawings in utility patent applications only after granting a petition filed explaining why the color drawings are necessary. However, the U.S. See 37 C.F.R. Under 37 C.F.R.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

& Anr passed an interim injunction in favour of the plaintiff restraining the defendants and its associates from using in any manner the trademark RAJDHANI or any other trademark which is deceptively similar to the trademark of the plaintiff [September 1, 2021]. Decisions from Indian Courts. Bombay High Court.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Banksy Case: registration of a trademark in bad faith and the price of anonymity. The EUIPO has cancelled street artist Banksy’s trademark for the well-known artwork ‘Flower Bomber” on the grounds that it was filed in bad faith. How do you protect a website? If you don’t appear on the Internet, you don’t exist.

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azrights

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, the law won’t generally stop copying of ideas or business models or colours of other brands unless these are trademarked. Some identifiers can be protected and owned as trademarks as soon as you create them. Others are extremely difficult to secure as trademarks and need a strategy to achieve.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

JUNE 10, 2021

An applicant secures a patent after successfully prosecuting the patent application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). When the USPTO believes an application embodies an invention worthy of a patent, the USPTO grants a Notice of Allowance. In the U.S. Appeal (MPEP § 1200).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

74 have had an outcome: 32 partial cancellation, 42 full cancellation. 304 director-initiated proceeded to full cancellation, 4 partial. Non-director initiated, 92 were not instituted, 140 instituted; 19 partial cancellation and 57 full cancellation. Non-director: 381 1(a), 233 66(a), 149 44(e).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Other Posts Honesty as a Defense vis-à-vis Trademark Infringements: Principle or Provision? Can “honest concurrent use” be used as a defense against a trademark infringement claim? Lokesh, highlighting its history, argues that honest concurrent use is a principle of trademark law and is not limited to a provision.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Other examples: design patent, as Sarah Burstein has writte n. Crystals and mud story about this: in many to many, an attractive case for more crystalline, bright line, formalist rules for cancelling registrations. User names on social media may or may not include trademarks; user bios give more information.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai. Controller of Patents and Designs and Raytheon Company v. First, in Toyota v.

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