LexBlog IP

MARCH 10, 2022

Among other things, the TMA created new procedures for challenging pending applications and registrations and updated several rules relating to the prosecution of trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”).

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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. million registrations. [1]

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

in IP and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC). The article analyses Sumitomo’s application and the requisites for registration of an olfactory mark. Discussing this anomaly, we are pleased to bring to you a guest post by Akshay Ajayakumar. His previous posts can be accessed here.

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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. Jorgenson also discussed how COVID-19 affected WIPO and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system. Peter Spies (DTL Ltd.),

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

So, believing that the state’s usurpation of his right to control use of the copyrighted work essentially took from the photographer a valuable property right, the photographer made a takings claim, seeking just compensation for the state’s alleged taking, essentially an assertion of eminent domain over the intellectual property.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has received more than 170 petitions for expungement and reexamination since it began accepting these new filings late last year. §1066(A) and reexamination pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § §1066(A) and reexamination pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § § 1066(B). . §

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

She notes that the most controversial provision in the new Bill is the re-introduction of revisionary powers of the Central Government to direct the CBFC Chairman to reexamine an already certified film. She highlights the issues and barriers to the registrability of smell-marks. 5, Issue 1 [Submit by September 19].

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