Sat.Jun 26, 2021

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USPTO Refuses Washington Football Team’s Trademark Request

Above the Fold

While the NFL’s Washington Football Team decides on a more permanent name (likely in 2022), its hopes of trademarking its current moniker have been put on ice. On June 18, 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issued an initial refusal of the Team’s application to trademark “Washington Football Team,” nearly a year after the mark was applied for.

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[GuestPost] Lord Justice Birss deals with the kitchen sink and the Formstein defence in Facebook v Voxer

The IPKat

The AmeriKat looking towards a future of the Formstein defence from her own kitchen sink Is Instagram Live actually live? This is one of the issues in the case Facebook v Voxer [2021] EWHC 1377 (Pat). Voxer argued that a live broadcast feature offered by Facebook infringes its patent EP 2 393 259. Facebook initiated the present proceeding to revoke the patent.

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IPLF: Getting your LLP Registered

IP and Legal Filings

With the rise in entrepreneurship and start-ups, multiple forms of organization are being preferred by entrepreneurs. Out of all, Limited Liability Partnership has become more preferred due to its nature of incorporating both partnership firm and company in a single form. Introduced in 2008, the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 regulates the LLP, wherein a minimum of two partners are required to incorporate an LLP, with no upper limit on the maximum number of partners of an LLP.