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How Do People End Up Losing Their Trademark Rights?

Kashishipr

What happens after you get your mark registered as a trademark? Your Trademark Application gets approved, and you receive your registration certificate. Don’t let that Trademark Registration certificate fool you. Furthermore, it will also never enforce your trademark rights on your behalf.

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What is a common law trademark?

Patent Trademark Blog

How are trademark rights determined in the US? In the US, trademark rights are generally given to the first one to use a mark. Except for a few limited circumstances, the first user is the rightful trademark owner in the US. The term common law arises most frequently in the context of an unregistered trademark.

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Registered Trademarks Does Not Mean Impunity from Priority Local Use Challenge

JD Supra Law

Federal trademark registration is the Holy Grail for companies, especially franchises, looking to expand their footprint and access a national audience. By: Stark & Stark

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Trademark For Business Growth

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Defining Trademark A “trademark” is a mark which is used for a commercial purpose. How do trademarks function? Trademarks reduces the chance of confusion: Trademarks helps in preventing confusion in the minds of consumers by indicating the source and quality of the product, they are intending to use.

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Trademark Enforcement Strategies – The Ultimate Path to Protection

Kashishipr

Trademarks provide multiple crucial advantages to businesses and customers alike. Trademarks also carry all the image and reputation a brand builds over the years. Furthermore, inconsistent or improper use of a trademark can obstruct its owner’s ability to enforce the trademark rights in a given brand.

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Be Aware as Trademark Email Scams Get More Sophisticated

IP Intelligence

As the new year gets underway, we want to flag the newest misleading trademark email scams, as these communications have become more advanced in their targeting. Recently, the fraudulent scammers have become more sophisticated with their solicitations by claiming to be attorneys or law firms with expertise in trademark law.

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Battle of the Firms – The Irony of IP Law Firms Being Sued for Trademark Infringement

SpicyIP

What happens when an IP firm is sued for infringing IP rights of other law firms? This post highlights some of these instances of law firms getting into disputes over their own IP primarily in the Indian context. The controversy was regarding the use of a similar logo by the defendant (another lawyer) for its law firm.