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Getting your Industrial Design Registration in Oman

IP and Legal Filings

FDI is dominated by the United Kingdom with an estimated value of US$11.56billion (48 percent), followed by the UAE USD 2.6billion (10.8 Industrial Design in Oman. The design must be original and, again, must conform to Oman’s standards of decency, in order to enjoy protection. percent), followed by Kuwait USD 1.1billion (4.6

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My Word! Design Patents on a Typeface

LexBlog IP

Design patents protect the look of something functional, regardless of whether the functional aspects are new. Because of this, a popular use of design patents is to protect the outside of common consumer products. Increasingly, companies are investing in designing unique and aesthetically pleasing typefaces.

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Empowering Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer

IP and Legal Filings

While facilitating technology transfer, it is significant to look at how IP rights play a role. It’s the first important step towards protecting owner’s rights and its lawful public use. Further Trademarks Act, 1999 and Designs Act, 2000 allow licensing of trademarks and designs respectively.

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Ninth Circuit Pours Jack Daniel's in “Punchbowl” Trademark Suit

LexBlog IP

Supreme Court held that the Rogers test does not apply “when an alleged infringer uses a trademark in the way the Lanham Act most cares about: as a designation of source for the infringer’s own goods.” Read more

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Can You Patent Your Idea?

LexBlog IP

Novelty: An invention or one very similar to it must already be patented, described in someone else’s patent or patent application, described in a printed publication, on sale, or in public use before the application date (with some exceptions granting the inventor a grace period of one year prior to the application date).

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Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

LexBlog IP

Below are three possible situations in which you can use intellectual property tools with respect to a product’s nature, originality, consumer driven features, and potential for growth. In the event that infringement occurs, a designer must show that the infringer copied the designers copyrighted work. [5] ” [8]. .”

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content. Document your own work.