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TTABlog Quarterly Index: October - December 2021

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35: TTAB Grants MIRAGE BRANDS Cancellation Petition Due To Likelihood of Reverse Confusion On Remand from the CAFC, TTAB Denies Petition for Cancellation of "NAKED" Registration for Condoms TTABlog Test: Three Recent Section 2(d) Inter Partes Cases - How Did They Come Out? [Yes] & Design" for Beer? Guess What?

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By Whom and How Are Our Patent Examiners Being Recruited? Digging Past the Recent Re-Notification of the Exams

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Three months after scrapping the preliminary exams for the recruitment of patent and designs examiners, the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has re-notified the preliminary exams to be conducted on December 21. Who was the competent authority that directed the cancellation of the exams?

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

Patent Trademark Blog

Perhaps you might want to send them a C&D letter to get them to respect your patents. Would it make sense to send them a trademark infringement letter. Would it make sense to send them a trademark infringement letter. Need to enforce your patent and trademark rights, or reply to a cease-and-desist letter?

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What is intellectual property (IP)?

Patent Trademark Blog

Let’s look into what those intangible assets might be, and how they can be protected. 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.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 30 – September 5)

SpicyIP

Prashant wrote about how the now scrapped IPAB has always been in the news for mostly the wrong reasons, ranging from a lack of independence to a lack of appointments to poor quality of appointments to illegal appointments to a lack of resources. The End of the IPAB and Lessons on Concentration of Judicial Powers. Other Developments.

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Brand Identifiers are Key to Managing Competition

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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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Influencers, bullfighting, deepfakes, AI, biopics… the Garrigues IP Blog celebrates its first birthday, covering all the hot topics.

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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? There will be a sequel!