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Use It or Lose It: How to Acquire and Protect your Trademarks

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Madelaine Lynch is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. To some extent trademarks can be protected without registration. An unregistered trademark can be identified using the symbol.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

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Before the second amendment, President Trump received a copyright registration covering the work, despite an early registration being recorded in Woodward’s favor. It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. ’” Id.

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Understanding Compulsory Licensing and Access to Essentials

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To Facilitate Governmental Use : The governmental use of a patent is regarded as based on ’eminent domain,’ which means that the government can acquire private property to make public use possible.

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