IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Trademark’s Function Under Branding The most basic of all definitions of a trademark may be termed as a sign of identification and is generally by a word, spelling, logo, slogan, or design, which can use an identifying and differentiating goods or services from one person or entity as opposed to another.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

It uses blockchain technology to ensure product authenticity and streamline its supply chain making the trademarked products traceable and verifiable. Apple It adopts an overarching global strategy on trademark protection, which encompasses the following major tactics. Trademarks can be registered for 10 years and renewed indefinitely.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2025

Fashion brands contribute a lot to the changing trends in the fashion industry with their creative designs. This creativity is rewarded via protection under IP laws, mainly under design rights, copyrights, and trademark protection. Right from Y2K trends to 90s minimalist fashion, we observe that fashion isn’t ever constant.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Dabur India Limited vs Bhagwati Udyog on 7 October, 2024 (Delhi District Court) Image from here The Plaintiff sought permanent injunction restraining the defendant from infringing and passing off its registered trademark “GULABARI” by selling rose water under the deceptively similar mark “AAYUSH GULABARI.” Koninklijke Philips N.V

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Kashishipr

MARCH 2, 2022

Your Trademark Application gets approved, and you receive your registration certificate. Don’t let that Trademark Registration certificate fool you. No trademark office across the globe will ever keep a watch on the market for unauthorized use of your Registered Trademark.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 8, 2021

” UGG is a registered trademark in the USA, now owned by Deckers Outdoor Corp. Back in 2016, Deckers learned that Australian Leather had imported 12 pairs boots labelled “ugg boots” into the USA and sued for trademark infringement. On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed in a R.36 Petition ].

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2025

Together, they build an extremely strong regime against counterfeiting by bringing infringing goods into the country or sending counterfeit goods out of it.This is a blog about how customs law actually influences trademark law in India; the mechanism of enforcement; and lastly, the issues and opportunities emerging from that interface.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Can you obtain a US registration for a foreign registered trademark? Many international trademark owners are familiar with the Madrid Protocol where you file your first trademark application in your home country. Afterwards, you file a Madrid application designating multiple foreign countries.

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Sander Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Trademark Registration for Food Businesses Do you sell food products? Then you have trademarks that are worth protecting through trademark registration! Examples of Trademarks Below are some of the types of branding you could register as trademarks, with examples of registered trademarks in Canada.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Maintaining a Trademark Registration can indeed be challenging if you aren’t familiar with the Trademark Law. However, there exist some steps and guidelines you can take and follow to ensure your Registered Trademark remains protected and valid. Guidelines on Maintaining Your Trademark in India.

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Sander Law

MARCH 1, 2023

Trademark Registration for Charities and Non-Profit Organizations Are you a charity or non-profit organization? Then you have trademarks that are worth protecting through trademark registration! Information resources: website, publications, audio and video recordings Interested in registering your trademarks?

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Kashishipr

MAY 4, 2022

Furthermore, inconsistent or improper use of a trademark can obstruct its owner’s ability to enforce the trademark rights in a given brand. Have Proper Symbols of Trademark Registration & Ownership. If you have a registered trademark in place, you should use the ‘®’ symbol.

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Sander Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Trademark Registration for Musicians Are you a musician? Then you have trademarks that are worth protecting through trademark registration! Examples of Trademarks Below are some of the types of branding you could register as trademarks, and examples of musicians with registered trademarks in Canada and/or US.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The proposed mark consists of "a full figure design of a character comprising a fedora, a leather jacket having spikes protruding therefrom, a scarf, and a painted face." “In Trademark Rule 2.51(a), The “drawing depicts the mark sought to be registered.” Trademark Rule 2.52, 37 C.F.R. In re Chris Irvine, Inc.

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Patent Trademark Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

What may have been unimaginable years ago has become a genuine concern for trademark owners who care about the virtual world. Yes, you can register trademarks for virtual goods with the USPTO. How do you trademark in the metaverse? How do you trademark in the metaverse? First, specify the mark.

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Sander Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Toblerone , one of my favourite chocolates, is a great example of protecting a brand with trademark registration. Registered Trademark Rights. In Canada, TOBLERONE has been a registered word mark since 1931 , that’s over 90 years of registered trademark rights! Contact Sander Law to get started.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. Characters are often protected by copyright, even if their fashion is not, but they are also routinely protected by trademark. Trademark infringement, however, isn’t like copyright.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JULY 7, 2021

How will a design mark application be compared to a word mark registration? To register a trademark containing numbers and/or letters, a trademark application may typically be filed for the word mark (standard characters) or the design mark (e.g.,

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 6, 2025

Usually, the stripes’ color and the material underneath have a contrasting color.The applicant is the legitimate owner of the figurative mark, which has been registered with the Trademark offices present in different jurisdictions. It was necessary for Adidas to establish a strong defense of consumer confusion. Nike and Adidas v.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 8, 2022

The Board upheld a refusal to register the proposed mark MADE FOR YOU LAB-GROWN DIAMONDS , in standard character and design form, for 'diamonds; jewelry" [LAB-GROWN DIAMONDS disclaimed], finding that the phrase fails to function as a trademark. The Trade Mark [sic] Act is not an act to register words but to register trademarks.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ferrari registered the trademark to protect the shape of its 250 GTO model back in 2008, despite only having manufactured the cars between 1962 and 1964. Ares Design, an Italian car manufacturer, filed a cancellation action against Ferrari’s mark by arguing that it had not been used for a continuous five-year period.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Trade Marks Act, 1999 governs and deals with the mechanism of registration, protection, and illegal use of trademarks in India. Additionally, it also deals with the exclusive rights of a trademark owner, penalties for Trademark Infringement , remedies for damaged goods, and modes of transference of a Registered Trademark.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 20, 2025

Sound recording licensing, Indiaa annual IP report, creative works as industrial design, and a lot more that has happened last week. Part I] Cryogas Judgment: Supreme Court Stops Copyright from Gaslighting Design The Supreme Courts recent judgment in Cryogas Equipment Pvt. Anything we are missing out on? Inox India Ltd.

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Patent Trademark Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Rejected Trademark Application? Get a Design Patent Instead The path to registering a trademark can be strewn with landmines. When your trademark application faces difficult rejections, would a design patent make more sense? Having difficulty trademarking your brand?

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azrights

MAY 3, 2022

Brand Tuned was a difficult book to write because although I had dealt with trademark registration and brand protection work, and had explored the concept of brand in my Legally Branded book, I didn’t have a deep understanding of it. Focus on Trade Mark Registration.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For example, the distinctive smell of Crayola Crayons is a registered scent mark, described as “a unique scent of pungent, aldehydic fragrance combined with the faint scent of hydrocarbon wax and an earthy clay”. Unregistered vs Registered Trademarks. To some extent trademarks can be protected without registration.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 9, 2024

on 26 November, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The suit was filed seeking relief of permanent injunction restraining the defendants from infringing the trademark and copyright of the plaintiff, passing off their goods as that of the plaintiff. The plaintiff has the registered trademark of MARLBORO. Ganesh Grains Ltd.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The design of Hershey’s cone-shaped small chocolate “Kisses” has been a registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) since 1996. When it comes to food designs, how far can a trademark go? On September 28, 2021 , The Hershey Co.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 18, 2022

It included both common law marks and marks registered within the meaning of the Canadian Trademark Act. Bill 96, however, stipulates that such exception can only be applied to registered trademarks, if no corresponding French version appears in the Canadian Trademark Database.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Samridhi Chugh and Manya Gupta write about this order, explaining how the Court appears to have convoluted the issues surrounding the interplay between trademarks, disparagement, and free speech, rather than clarifying them. It involved the plaintiff’s registered trademark, “SUPREME”. In this post by Kartikeya S.,

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The SOS Agreement included a licensing clause allowing the applicants to use the “UTRACON” trademark whose rights were held by the respondents. The Court noted the expiration of the license and the respondents’ registered trademark rights. Bibin John vs Lifestyle International Private Ltd.

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43(B)log

MARCH 10, 2023

The highway protocol allegedly suffered from performance issues and never met the design requirements that Zamfir had previously advertised when working with CasperLabs on the product, thus allegedly harming his reputation. The court previously dismissed the claim for failure to sufficiently plead commercial injury.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What are similar trademarks? Maybe it’s just me, but it sure seems like the USPTO has become more aggressive in refusing registration of trademarks. The reason has to do with registrations of similar marks. Will a logo or graphic design help to avoid trademark confusion? Be careful.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The commencement of the Spring/Summer Fashion Week 2024 has seen luxury brands display their designs on the ramp again. Apart from designer clothes, this year also saw the debut of new signature colours of two beloved luxury brands-Burberry and Gucci. Gucci currently has 29 registered trademarks in the EUIPO alone.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Non-Conventional trademarks are full of potential but still present some unique challenges, especially in jurisdictions like India, which is in process of evolving & developing their legal framework to accept these novel identifiers. On the other hand, single colour trademarks are not specifically mentioned in the act.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Amazon sellers need to understand the importance of choosing a brand name for Amazon seller account that, when filed as a trademark application, will present the lowest risk of rejection by the Trademark Office. Need a registered trademark to maximize full benefits of Amazon Brand Registry? Then incorporate.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These legal identifiers are commonly known as ‘trademarks,’ serving as a critical tool for establishing a unique identity, reputation, and goodwill for a business entity. The legal protection of these trademarks is contingent upon their registration with the relevant government authority, such as the Trade Marks Registry in India.

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