Sander Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Trademark Registration for Food Businesses Do you sell food products? have a restaurant? Then you have trademarks that are worth protecting through trademark registration! For food related branding, the following are some of the products and services you would want to protect in your trademark application.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 5, 2022

The following is an edited transcript of my video When Should I Apply for Trademark Registration? One of the most frequent questions I get is “When should I begin the process to start applying to register my trademark as a business owner?” Patent and Trademark Office. ” The answer, almost all the time, is now.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 24, 2022

Due to the increase in tourism, the role of restaurants and hotels has also increased. However, there is a risk involved in this scenario – with the brand names of hotels and restaurants becoming popular, other service providers in the industry might misuse this popularity to gain an unfair advantage.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, their target wasn’t a suspected pirate of their movies, but an organization that specializes in pop up restaurants. Both films feature a restaurant named McDowell’s, a knock-off of McDonald’s that the film’s protagonists get a job at in order to be closer to the film’s romantic interest. They do so semi-regularly.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2024

ABSTTRACT The constraints placed on trademark registration, particularly concerning common English words by recent judicial review by Justice C. This article explores real world examples, international perspectives and aims to provide comprehensive understanding of the complexities surrounding trademark restriction.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 11, 2024

INTRODUCTION Trademarks are vital part of modern day commerce because they act as distinctive and unique symbols that enable consumers to recognise and distinguish goods and services offered by different providers. Image Sources: Shutterstock] The primary legislative basis for smell trademark regulation in the US is the Lanham Act.

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IIPRD

JUNE 29, 2022

IP PROTECTION LOUI VUITTON PRODUCTS HAVE. Louis Vuitton has obtained several sorts of legal protection for its work in order to secure these prevalent mental inventions in the fashion industry. Copyright: France, the brand’s home country, allows for copyright protection for footwear and fashion items.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

When a party seeks to protect a mark that is unregistered, the plaintiff has the burden to establish its entitlement to protection under the Lanham Act due to the “distinctiveness” of the mark. Sometimes this issues arise in the context of competing restaurants. Platinum Home Mortg. Platinum Fin. Mighty Star, Inc.,

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2021

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Tahhira Somal, exploring existing frameworks of non-conventional trademarks, particularly those of smell marks, and assessing their role in the protection of certain traditional cultural expressions. One type of such non-traditional trademarks is a smell or scent mark. Tahhira Somal.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

To do this, food firms invest a lot of money in developing and promoting distinctive brands and are increasingly turning to intellectual property (IP) protection as a means of establishing or maintaining their leadership in the industry. The trademark of Coca-Cola is its most valuable asset.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. NFTs also may embody or use trademarks. This is highlighted in the case of Hermès International v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2023

As a result, interim orders in trademark infringement cases have become somewhat standardized. However, the order was brief and did not specify any statutory or common law basis for the protection of personality rights, merely citing Titan Industries as precedent. In Gautam Gambhir v. D.A.P & Co. & D.A.P & Co. &

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. NFTs also may embody or use trademarks. This is highlighted in the case of Hermès International v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2021

The Television Academies sued Goodman for copyright infringement, trademark infringement and dilution, and defamation. Trademark Dilution. The Crony graphic doesn’t qualify for the “parody” exclusion to trademark dilution. 417 Lafayette Restaurant case. Trademark Infringement.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 23, 2022

There are 45 total Trademark Classes, also known as “International Classes” or simply “Classes.” ” The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) categorizes trademarks by “Classes.” A video of me explaining the trademark classes. What Are Trademark Classes?

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Grimaldi grounds, the district court’s grant of summary judgment to MTV on the resulting trademark claims. MGFB has a federal registration for FLORA-BAMA for “bar and restaurant services” and several entertainment services, including “social entertainment events,” live musical performances, and “competitions for fish throwing.”

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 30, 2021

There are 45 total International Trademark Classes. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) uses these Classes to categorize trademarks. The classification system is critical because trademarks identify a source of goods and/or services that distinguish the trademark from others.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 23, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) in a pair of precedential decisions published this summer. Thus, brand owners can, and do, register their trade dress at the PTO. See Figure 2. 1 Is a Building “Product Packaging” or “Product Design” Trade Dress?

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2021

Cathay Smith: Do you foresee a point in time at which an AI might be able to make a fair use/fair dealing decision in the moment? How do you separate TM and ©? Compare Dropbox which happens to back up multiple copies of The Big Lebowski, each downloaded by a different iTunes user that has legitimately paid to do so? TM: Mark A.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 8, 2024

What if someone else filed for a similar trademark first? I can’t tell you all the reasons why people delay filing a trademark application. Others have already applied for similar trademarks. What are your options if you wish to file for a similar trademark? Need guidance on registering a trademark?

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I am particularly sensitive to the trademark challenges that small businesses face for several reasons. Pelton & Associates, to advise and counsel others about trademark protection. Here are some of many things a business does not need in order to have. a great trademark: Marketing department.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 28, 2020

A few weeks ago, the USPTO published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to adjust fees for trademark filings. The update proposal features some modifications, but I still believe it will disproportionately impact small businesses, and I still believe the USPTO ought to provide more detail about its budget needs and in particular its IT troubles.

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azrights

MARCH 23, 2022

So, he was in disbelief when he received a cease and desist letter from lawyers acting for the high end China Tang at the Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair whose rights to use the name stemmed from a figurative trademark in class 43 (restaurant services, catering services, cafes, cafeterias, and self-service restaurants) registered in 2005.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2022

When this Kat was just setting out, a wise lawyer described IP protection in terms of a vast sea, dotted with islands. The islands represent the boundaries of IP protection, while the rest of the sea waters are free for all to navigate. There are creations that do not quite belong either on the island or in the deep blue sea.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Although Tam rejected that argument, some of the Court seemed to have buyer’s remorse in Brunetti, recognizing that almost all of TM law is content based; if we’re going to have a registration system at all, we need to make some content based distinctions. Or abortion. That would seem to raise serious unconstitutional conditions questions.

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