IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The objective of the Singapore Treaty is to create a modern and dynamic international framework for the harmonization of administrative trademark registration procedures. Most significantly, it is the first international instrument dealing with trademark law to explicitly recognize non-traditional marks. Introduction.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 6, 2023

Harness IP partner Joels Samuels is featured in a Bloomberg Law article outlining 2023’s most anticipated intellectual property (IP) court cases, legal trends, and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rule changes. Harness IP is celebrating more than 100 years as an intellectual property law firm.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Trademark owners take note: In Abitron Austria GmbH et al. laws, it vacated a $96 million damages award against a foreign defendant because the conduct relating to the damages was not a “use in commerce” under the Lanham Act. foreign sales of products for which foreign buyers designated the U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

Identify instances where you have been denied patent protection for an invention in the United States solely on the basis of patent subject matter ineligibility, but obtained protection for the same invention in a foreign jurisdiction, or vice versa. intellectual property. economy.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Have you ever wondered who protects the IP rights of IP lawyers? But what happens when these protectors of IP seek the protection of their IPs? In the course of the litigation, the defendant argued that there cannot be a monopoly on the publicly available font ‘Edwardian Script ITC’, which was used in their logo.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2022

Trademark in Bahrain. ?????????A A trademark is a sign or form used to distinguish the goods, products, or services of one establishment from those of other establishments. In addition, a mark of sound or smell can be considered a trademark. If the proprietor wish? Things that can be registered in Bahrain.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2022

Dr. Caleb Bates focuses his practice on intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent prosecution, strategic counseling, and worldwide patent portfolio management in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. Patent & Trademark Office. Will Freeman focuses his practice on patent litigation in U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Supreme Court issued numerous landmark decisions in 2020, among those—for trademark scholars and practitioners— Romag Fasteners, Inc. Considering the importance of Chinese manufacturing to global trade, the Chinese legal system and its evolving trademark enforcement system will likely cause companies to get creative. Fossil, Inc.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

It’s always good to start off the year with an overview of trademark and copyright cases to watch. In short, the matter at issue will address when a work is sufficiently transformative to qualify for fair use protection under the Copyright Act. The case will determine the proper balance between trademark rights and free speech.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 27, 2021

The decision was based on a set of local IP regulations implemented in 2019 to increase protection of intellectual property (IP) rights associated with the booming local innovation in key new technologies. The forerunner of a very bold experiment is the Shenzhen AMR.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 27, 2021

The decision was based on a set of local IP regulations implemented in 2019 to increase protection of intellectual property (IP) rights associated with the booming local innovation in key new technologies. The forerunner of a very bold experiment is the Shenzhen AMR.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) becomes effective on December 27, 2021 and makes several important amendments to federal trademark law (the Lanham Act) intended to modernize trademark application examinations and clean house of trademark registrations for marks not used in commerce.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 27, 2023

There is a little-known provision of the Lanham Act (the US Trademark Act) that packs a potentially big punch. entity by serving the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). There is a little-known provision of the Lanham Act (the US Trademark Act) that packs a potentially big punch. In Equibal, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

’s (“Whirlpool”) famous KITCHENAID trademarks and trade dress. In January 2022, Whirlpool sued Shenzhen alleging trademark infringement and dilution, trade dress infringement, and unfair competition under both federal and state law for Shenzhen’s sale of its stand mixers sold online under the names COOKLEE and PHISNIC.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

IP practitioners are not always interested in taxation profiles of intellectual property, but sometimes it’s necessary to get acquainted with them. Most of the discussion over the year has been on what kind of IP assets could be protected. The Patent Box was introduced in Italy in 2015. 50 of 24.4.2017).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 15, 2021

Identify instances where you have been denied patent protection for an invention in the United States solely on the basis of patent subject matter ineligibility, but obtained protection for the same invention in a foreign jurisdiction, or vice versa. intellectual property. economy.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Likewise, as to prong two, VNG had taken the position throughout the litigation that it was not “subject to the personal jurisdiction of any state court of general jurisdiction in the United States.” content owners.”

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SpicyIP

MARCH 25, 2024

Sunanda Bharti on the Michelin Stars and its interaction was trademark laws. Image from here Mischief, Manifestation, and the Michelin Trademark! As an IP enthusiast, the author perceives this as a trademark matter. What is a Michelin Star in Terms of Intellectual Property Law? By Dr. (Prof.)

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction The rights which are granted to the people for their creative work are known as intellectual property rights. Patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, layout-designs of integrated circuits, plant variety protection, and copyright are all examples of intellectual property.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 25, 2022

District Court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant with regard to a copyright infringement suit. Likewise, as to prong two, VNG had taken the position throughout the litigation that it was not “subject to the personal jurisdiction of any state court of general jurisdiction in the United States.”

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The IPKat

JANUARY 9, 2022

Back in October, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property (“IP”), Information, and Privacy Law organized and virtually hosted its International IP Practice Seminar. expungement and reexamination) would “greatly impact” trademark practice. Guanyang Yao (Liu, Shen & Associates).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We discussed the recent updates in Delhi, Madras and Calcutta High Courts, regarding adjudication of intellectual property right matters. Highlighting the change in roster of the Intellectual Property Division (IPD), we also discussed the progress, with regard to similar arrangements, in Calcutta and Madras High Courts.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. This applies to companies that have never taken serious steps to protect intellectual property and companies that understand the value of intellectual property and take active steps to secure and protect those assets. .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 17, 2023

the Supreme Court held that the Lanham Act does not reach trademark infringement that occurs outside of the United States (US). Abitron garnered far less attention than did other intellectual property (IP) cases argued this term, including Jack Daniels Products, Inc. Hetronic International Inc. ,

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

Intellectual property law is all the more a refuge for wordsmiths , linguists , and logophiles , as three recent IP-related matters can help illustrate. I briefly mentioned Abitron here recently , but it deserves more attention in the context of defining the boundaries of US trademark laws and just on the notion of defining words.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We are pleased to bring you a guest post from Payal Saraogi, on a recent decision of the Delhi High Court on Google’s use of trademarks as advertisement keywords. Revival of the Third-party Trademark as a Keyword Dispute. Google India Private Limited and others. The parties and their positions.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2023

Hetronic, a manufacturer of radio remote controls for heavy duty construction equipment, sued its former distributor Abitron for trademark infringement as Abitron continued to use the Hetronic trademark to market and sell Abitron’s own remote controls after the distribution agreement was terminated. consumers, or seen by U.S.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Her areas of interest are Intellectual Property Laws, Data Privacy Laws and Company Law.] [This post has been co-authored with SpicyIP Intern Hiranya Bhandarkar. Hiranya is a fourth-year law student at the School of Law, Bennett University. Image from here.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The decisions in the first category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

In the interests of full disclosure, readers should note that I wrote and submitted an amicus brief , on behalf of myself and four other intellectual property professors, in support of the copyright owner (Unicolors), in this case. The one actually litigated in the case (these images come from the complaint) is here.)

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