Remove international-pct-application
article thumbnail

What is intellectual property (IP)?

Patent Trademark Blog

Depending upon whether your idea relates to appearance or function, you can file either a design patent application or utility patent application. Here’s a helpful article on filing a utility patent application and another one filing a design patent application. Do you need to act quickly? Is IP time sensitive?

article thumbnail

Use It or Lose It: How to Acquire and Protect your Trademarks

IPilogue

For example, the distinctive smell of Crayola Crayons is a registered scent mark, described as “a unique scent of pungent, aldehydic fragrance combined with the faint scent of hydrocarbon wax and an earthy clay”. Unregistered vs Registered Trademarks. To some extent trademarks can be protected without registration.

Trademark 106
article thumbnail

SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 7- August 13)

SpicyIP

Praharsh wrote on the Delhi High Court’s Division Bench order staying the operation of the Single Judge’s direction in Vifor “Product by Process Claims” case and on the Oppositions Status Report filed by the Trademark Registry before the Delhi High Court. Modern Foods v.