43(B)log

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Begin with legislative action: Trademark Modernization Act, Which introduces three of the big themes of the year: (1) trademark use, (2) the harm of infringement, and (3) the role of the First Amendment in limiting the scope of trademark rights. My presentation, galloping across a bunch of developments. Slides here.

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IP Trademark Advertising Advertising 94

IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

But how can these Limited-Edition Products be protected? A trademark, on the other hand, exclusively identifies a product as belonging to a specific company and recognizes the company’s ownership of the brand. Every renowned business has some products that they launch separately. COPYRIGHT OR DESIGN.

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Editing IP Artistic Work Designs 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Bita Amani: Forbidden Arts & Subjugated Knowledges: On the Polemics of Intellectual Property IP rights are state-dependent, property-dependent models so make false promises of equality. IP rights are contingent and state dependent in ways that have nothing to do with the merits of expression or invention. Turban = diffused.

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Branding Brands Branding Art 59

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

2022) the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) reversed a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) decision cancelling two registrations for marks identical to those used outside of the US by The Coca-Cola Company (“Coca-Cola”).

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azrights

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, the law won’t generally stop copying of ideas or business models or colours of other brands unless these are trademarked. Therefore, legal protection needs to be an uppermost consideration when choosing or changing brand codes because legal ownership is fundamental to effective protection of uniqueness of a brand’s identifiers.

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Branding Brands Branding Copying 52

IIPRD

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, brand value, copyright, etc have become foundational assets for several businesses, seeking greater importance and attention. Businesses are turning towards their intangible assets, specifically their IP to finance their growth and further innovation.

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IP Intellectual Property Branding Brands 40

azrights

MARCH 15, 2021

A distinctive asset such as the Nike Swoosh would have been capable of registration as a trademark as soon as the design was created. Trademarks give you a wide scope of protection so that Nike could have prevented a competitor developing an icon that was similar to its own swoosh logo.

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Branding Brands Branding Trademark 52

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

Copyright Conundrums, Sovereign States, and IP Piracy (2020). I have to give it to creative, resilient lawyers (and in fact, I have lauded them in the past here and there ). When the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Allen v. Cooper, 140 S.Ct. Cooper, 140 S.Ct. ” Flynn, Queen Anne’s Revenge, Indeed! .”

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Intellectual Property Government Invention Copyright 52