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Food, Fights, and the Butter Chicken: Some More Thoughts on “The Mystery of the Real Master Chef”

SpicyIP

While the “misleading the public” claim hints at perhaps a trademark infringement and/or passing off claim, the order doesn’t clarify what rights are allegedly infringed. Bar and Bench ( paywalled ) reported that the case is not only concerned with the use of the above image but also the tagline “Inventors of Butter Chicken and Dal Makhani.”

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (Summer 2022)

IPilogue

The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities. IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (10 positions).

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Trademark Protection for Board Games

LexBlog IP

Trade Dress for Board Games Examples of Board Game Trade Dress Most savvy entrepreneurs know to apply for trademarks on their product names, company names, logos, and slogans. Of those, inventors who make board games often go straight to patent filings and forget about the trademark analysis. What is Trade Dress Protection?

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (2022/23 Academic Year)

IPilogue

The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to assist under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities. IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (3-5 positions).

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: IP Innovation Clinic Fellows (Summer 2023)

IPilogue

The IP Innovation Clinic, the first student-based clinic of its kind in Canada, is seeking law students from Osgoode Hall Law School to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with their innovation and commercialization activities.

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The Importance of Protecting Intellectual Property

Larson & Larson

Product designers, inventors, and artists of all types need to understand the meaning of intellectual property and how to protect their creative contributions. . Products that derive from the human intellect that the law protects from unauthorized use are defined as intellectual property. What is Intellectual Property? .

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Trade Dress, Aesthetics And Functionality

IIPRD

The instant order of the General Court proves wrong the false assumptions that the shape mark is dead under the trademark law based on the doctrine of aesthetic functionality. trademark law which was later borrowed and adopted in a more limited sense in the European trademark law. Conclusion.