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Protecting Fashion or Stifling Innovation

IIPRD

At the outset is it important to note that interpreting these legislations gives rise to uncertainty, one which forms the topic of discussion in the next section. the USA Supreme Court held that only certain design features which can be separated from the product as a whole can be granted copyright to prevent monopolization of garments.

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

Like most countries, Canada bars the registration of “clearly descriptive” trademarks to prevent applicants from monopolizing words that merely describe the goods or services at hand. Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011.

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Canada Should Not Be Left Behind as the US Moves Towards a Right to Repair

IPilogue

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. Manufacturers likely find it valuable to monopolize repairs. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. Everything breaks eventually.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

Second , it has been argued that the court merely espoused the settled principles of trademark law that ‘common’ names and phrases cannot be monopolized. In fact, the courts in numerous instances have also mentioned that the name of Gods merely qualify as common words which should not be monopolized.

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CORONASPLOITATION-19: A Brief Survey of Recent COVID-19-Related Trademark Applications

Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

Since very few of the recent COVID-19 or CORONAVIRUS-formative filings are likely to meet these threshold requirements, most of these applicants have spent hundreds – and in some cases thousands – of dollars attempting to register terms and slogans that they can’t possibly hope to register, let alone monopolize in the marketplace.

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Book review: Research Handbook on Trademark Law Reform

The IPKat

7(1)(e)(ii), so that signs for which the emphasis lies on "inherent, non-reputation related value that must be kept free from monopolization" can be opposed with greater flexibility [at 189]. However, Kur would simultaneously extend the scope of the "technical result"-ban in Art.