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A Seller’s Guide to Navigating Intellectual Property Law on Amazon

LexBlog IP

The purpose of a trademark is to prevent consumer confusion about the source of the corresponding product. “Trade dress” is a subsection of trademark law and protects the design and shape of a product or its packaging, again to identify the source of the product.

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[Hybrid Event] Fundamentals of Trademark Law in the Global Marketplace 2023 - June 2nd, San Francisco, CA

JD Supra Law

Why You Should Attend - Recent years delivered major trademark law developments, underscoring the dynamism of this area of intellectual property law.

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[Hybrid Event] Fundamentals of Trademark Law in the Global Marketplace 2023 - June 23rd, New York, NY

JD Supra Law

Why You Should Attend - Recent years delivered major trademark law developments, underscoring the dynamism of this area of intellectual property law.

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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The Report looked at: i) current and future applications of non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”); ii) how intellectual property laws apply to NFTs and assets associated with NFTs; iii) intellectual property-related challenges arising from the use of NFTs; and iv) potential ways to use NFTs to secure and manage intellectual property rights.

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EMP&A comments on USPTO’s transition to issue electronic trademark registration certificates

Erik K Pelton

The USPTO recently announced, via notice in the Federal Register , that it intends to issue electronic trademark registration certificates, and only will print physical certificates upon request and with a small fee ($25 per copy). EMP&A is a boutique trademark law firm located in Falls Church, Virginia. Introduction.

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Can A Single Colour Mark Acquire Registration In India?

IP and Legal Filings

He was unmistakably aware of the nuances regarding colours in trademark law. Broadly speaking, trademarks are of two types: traditional and non-traditional. [1] 2] However, the quintessential reason for such distinction is due to a slightly elevated standard for the registration of non-traditional marks.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

Kashishipr

It further added that an individual could either own a registered trademark or copyright but not both. The argument that copyright protection and trademark registration were two different things and lacked connection and that an individual or entity couldn’t own both was wholly incorrect. Concluding Remarks.