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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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New Trademark Laws For Québec – What You Need To Know

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

Bill 96 will have a significant impact on the use of English trademarks in the Province of Québec. For example, whereas in the past, both unregistered and registered trademarks did not need to be translated into French, under Bill 96, only registered trademarks will be exempt from translation into French.

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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

There are no separate legal provisions for these rights and they have been included under the existing Intellectual Property laws. Daler Mehendi, a known singer and the plaintiff in the present case, had a registered trademark over the letters “DM” and established a business called “D.M. Entertainment v.

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Mischief, Manifestation, and the Michelin Trademark!

SpicyIP

Should the seemingly fraudulent behavior be taken in jest or be considered as a blatant misuse of the Michelin trademark— word and symbol? The present post is devoted to this latter question. What is a Michelin Star in Terms of Intellectual Property Law?

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Interplay Between Sections 124, 47 and 57 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999: The Fault in Our Interpretations

SpicyIP

He is an intellectual property law practitioner based out of New Delhi. He completed his law in 2013 from GGSIPU, Delhi. The authors have clarified that they do not have any real or potential conflict of interest that may be present with the issue discussed in the post. Para 28 & 29 ).

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Understanding the 3 Common Forms of IP & their Varying Levels of Protection

Kashishipr

Trademarks (referred to as logos and brand names in a layman’s language) are the source identifiers intended to safeguard the general public from getting confused about the origin of products and services available in the market.

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Registration of Motion Mark as Trademark in India

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During the filing of the trademark application for a motion mark, the applicant should ensure that the movements occurring in the mark should be represented in sequence as presented for the product or brand in question. It is imperative to note that during the examination stage, a motion mark can never be presented in its pure form.