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EUIPO Board of Appeal holds numeric pattern insufficiently distinctive to be a trade mark

The IPKat

In a decision issued earlier this month, the EUIPO First Board of Appeal (the Board) held that a mark comprising of the sequence of numbers from 0 to 23 could not be registered as an EU trade mark (EUTM), since it would be perceived as a listing of the product or an article number.

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Secretary Raimondo Addresses Advisory Committee on U.S. Supply Chain and Competitiveness

U.S. Department of Commerce

export growth and national economic competitiveness, encourage innovation, facilitate the movement of goods, and improve the competitiveness of U.S. supply chains for goods and services in the domestic and global economy. Secretary Raimondo Addresses Advisory Committee on U.S. supply chain and economic competitiveness.

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Hashtags And Trademark

IP and Legal Filings

It is a metadata tag that allows users to build, locate, track, and participate to a specific discussion on social networking sites and other online applications. It is a metadata tag that allows users to build, locate, track, and participate to a specific discussion on social networking sites and other online applications.

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Can You Trademark A Hashtag?

Kashishipr

They qualify as a metadata tag and aid the user to create, identify, follow, and contribute to a particular conversation or a topic on social networking sites and across other internet applications. The audience should differentiate the goods originating from the proprietor of one hashtag from those of others.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Trademark infringement has grown more complex and pervasive, ranging from counterfeit goods to digital squatting and keyword advertising. Trademark infringement has grown more complex and pervasive, ranging from counterfeit goods to digital squatting and keyword advertising. Trademark violation raises significant issues.

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How Grey Is Your Market? Identifying Grey Market Issues and Strategies to Combat Them 

Corsearch

However, whilst international trade fosters economic growth and exchange, it also creates opportunities for grey market goods to emerge. Plus, goods may be sourced from unauthorized third-party channels, leading to potential compromises in product quality.

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Multilateral malaise – The war in Ukraine’s impact on trade policy

Herbert Smith Freehills

The flood of post-Ukraine sanctions signals shifting Western calculations but the aftermath risks lasting damage to world trade. Here we consider the legal problems these sanctions are creating and how that will likely shape future trade policy. The war in Ukraine will change the world in many ways.

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