Erik K Pelton

JULY 1, 2023

The following is an edited transcript of my video 5 Free Ways to Strengthen Your Brand. Use the proper symbol for your trademark. If you have a registration, use the ® prominently with your brand. If you don’t, you can use TM or SM. We have plenty more resources about which symbol to use and how and where available on our website. Be consistent in how you use your brand—your colors, your logo, your fonts—to help your brand stick in the minds of customers.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2023

The most dependable things in life tend to be the things most easily taken for granted. In the piracy ecosystem, that certainly applied to torrent site RARBG. RARBG was never likely to win any prizes for being the best-looking site with bleeding-edge features. Nor would its operators hope to win any. What the site did was what any indexer of any content should strive for; plenty of well-organized and readily searchable content, all of it supported by ancillary sources of complementary data, with

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2023

Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik The Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks released the results for the 2023 Patent and Trademark Agent examinations. Of 1496 candidates who appeared for the Trademark Agent Exam, 167 had earlier qualified for the viva voice. Of these, 103 applicants have passed the exam. With regard to the Patent Agent Exam, of 5695 candidates who appeared for the examination, 716 had earlier qualified for the viva voice.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 1, 2023

On June 8, the United States Supreme Court handed down a surprisingly decisive ruling on trademark law and its relationship with First Amendment rights. The Court found that free speech rights did not protect a manufacturer of dog toys, which mimicked a bottle of Jack Daniels, against an action for trademark infringement. The case has provoked widespread discussion among IP lawyers across the world regarding similar cases in other jurisdictions.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Technology

Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 1, 2023

Reuters reports: India has banned access to 17 Internet Web sites and blogs it says preach messages of religious hatred, an official said on Wednesday. But in scrambling to obey. The post “What could they be thinking” Department appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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