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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

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As a result, the rise of hypersensitivity to religion, religious texts, and religious symbols determines the jurisprudence around the utilisation of such marks under Indian trademark law, even if they are not strictly prohibited. Determining the degree of similarity requires considering the label as a whole.

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How Do People End Up Losing Their Trademark Rights?

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No trademark office across the globe will ever keep a watch on the market for unauthorized use of your Registered Trademark. Furthermore, it will also never enforce your trademark rights on your behalf. It implies that the onus lies with the trademark holder to prevent others from infringing upon his trademark rights.

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Here’s How You Can Maintain Your Trademark Registration in India

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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. Exclusive Trademark Rights for Trademark Owners in India.

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How Lacoste Lost Its Crocodile Trademark

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Crocodile International noticed that Lacoste wasn’t using the design it had registered and applied to revoke Lacoste’s trademark for non-use. This broad argument that any use of a crocodile design was use of the registered crocodile trademark was rejected out of hand by the court.

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China: Recycled Packaging and Trademark Infringement, a Questionable Decision in the Tsingtao Beer Case

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In particular, Tsingtao alleged that such use of its registered trademark created in the relevant users the impression that the small breweries’ beer and brand was somewhat related to Tsingtao Beer. 57 of the Chinese Trademark law. 7) causing harm to other’s exclusive rights to use registered trademarks.”.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

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The label in question was designed by an employee of SK Oil Industries. According to NTC, the SSPL label mark was only a registered trademark, and therefore, it couldn’t be used as an artistic work. It further added that an individual could either own a registered trademark or copyright but not both.

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Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute

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This article seeks to examine how trademark law interacts with the freedom of expression of artists to choose the subject matters they wish to engage with, using the dispute between Hermès, a fashion industry giant and Mason Rothschild, a digital artist, as a contextual backdrop. The Hermès-Rothschild Dispute. Ltd vs Google India Pvt.

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