LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a Mask Work. Understanding Mask Work.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The registered owner of a design is granted unrestricted rights to their registered Designs in India. The right to cancel a design registration is one of these rights. The Act and Rules relating to the Design Law of India clearly detail the cancellation procedure. PROCEDURE.

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SpicyIP

JULY 4, 2024

Image by storyset on Freepik The office of Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (CGPDTM) on July 2, has notified the 2025 Patent and Trademarks Agent Exams. The mode of application for the exams is online and the registration will be open from July 08 (12 noon) to August 08 (05.30

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Above the Fold

MAY 27, 2021

s registration for the trade dress of a gun barrel (as shown below) on grounds of de jure functionality under Section 2(e)(5). 23, 58 USPQ2d 1001, 1006 (2001) (quoting Inwood Labs., In view of this analysis the TTAB cancelled the Registration under Section 2(e)(5). Opinion, at p. 37 (citing TrafFix Devices, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. Just like trademarks, registration for them is not mandatory, but if it is registered the protection becomes airtight. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS.

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IIPRD

APRIL 3, 2024

1] The fashion industry in India is extremely diverse in the type of fabric, labour, design, way of draping, and handwork that is used. Protection of Fashion: IPR Indian fashion houses have begun to toe the line of Western fashion houses by registering their designs and fashion works as IPR. [4] Tahiliani Design Pvt.

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Patently-O

JULY 13, 2021

Design Patent No. The reexamination examiner agreed with the challenge and issued a final rejection that the claimed design was anticipated by four different prior art references. 2001) (citing Gorham Co. Michael Piper of Conley Rose filed this one on behalf of an anonymous party challenging Zhang’s U.S. Door-Master Corp.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 2, 2021

India’s Accession to the Locarno Agreement: Amendments to the Design Rules, 2001 & Other Impacts. In a guest post , Yashi Agrawal writes about India’s recent accession to the Locarno Agreement and its implications for India’s design laws. Fonts and Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable? Other News from Around the World.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Like the EUIPO’s Trade Mark and Design Guidelines and to the USPTO’s Trade Mark Manual of Examining Procedure , the Guidelines 2022 are the main point of reference for all parties using the Chinese trade mark system. The Standards were subsequently revised in 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2016, summarising changes in legislation and practices.

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Intepat

JULY 14, 2021

The Delhi High Court already handles various IPR cases as a court of original civil jurisdiction, including civil claims for violation of trademarks, copyright, patents, and designs and writ petitions, revision petitions, and appeals. IP CASES PENDING BEFORE THE IPAB. CONCLUSION.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 13, 2022

The Board has re-designated as precedential its April 2001 decision dismissing an opposition to registration of the mark SPINTIRES for computer games and software. 91248894 (April 2, 2021) (re-designated as precedential, June 1, 2022). Opposer Saber Interactive alleged only one claim: nonownership.

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SpicyIP

JULY 14, 2021

Smell marks are or have been heavily debated around the world and are privy to their own set of issues in terms of registration. Internationally, the statutory requirements for the registration of non-conventional trademarks varies across jurisdictions. Issues and Barriers to the Registrability of Smell-marks.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 8, 2023

” The Appellant learned that the Respondents were operating two hotels in Bangalore and Puttaparthi, noting that they had imitated their design, signage, and use of the phrase “RENAISSANCE.” Since roughly 1981, according to the plaintiff, the trade mark has been used internationally.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The protection includes ensuring registration ad enforcement within the territories of the country for the interested owners and applicants. As such, breeders can obtain patents, trademarks, and industrial designs that establish their ownership over legally approved new plant varieties. Image Source: Freepic].

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

billion in 2001 to USD 120 billion now. A trademark typically consists of a word (like Cheerios), a stylised word or letter (like the iconic M logo for McDonald’s), a design (like Nestlé’s birds’ nest), or a phrase (like “Life tastes better with KFC”). The trademark of Coca-Cola is its most valuable asset.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Background In 2001, McCain GmbH (the Intervener) successfully registered the following three-dimensional sign as an EUTM: Registration was obtained for goods in Class 29 (pre-cooked potato croquettes and products based on mashed potatoes frozen) of the Nice Classification.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 12, 2023

Calcutta High Court clarifies that a civil court does not have jurisdiction to determine the validity of registration granted under the Plant Varieties Act. Gap settles Patagonia trademark lawsuit over pocket design. Case: Pan Seeds Pvt. Ramnagar Seeds Farm Pvt. Merck sues U.S. government over Medicare negotiation program.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 12, 2021

Is the Registration Certificate any different? As explained above, there are three distinct benefits to the Supplemental Register: (1) the applicant can still bring suit; (2) the USPTO will not register a confusingly similar marks; and (3) the applicant may use the ® after registration. See In Re Nett Designs, Inc , 236 F.3d

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Calm Water Therapeutics Llc vs The Assistant Controller Of Patents And Designs on 28 February, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The appeal challenged the rejection of a patent application for a “Bi-Functional Co-Polymer” by the Assistant Controller of Patents. Third, the evidence of the plaintiff’s use of the mark from 1989 are fabricated.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Design patent- This patent protects the unique visual appearance of the manufactured item. This means that a very similar patented design and shape are not eligible for patent grants. In biotechnology, the design of medical equipment can be protected through this act. There is a difference between the utility and design acts.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2013, Interprofession du Gruyère, sought and received from the USPTO a certification mark for a design with stylized font, for the letters “AOC”, a Swiss cross, and the words “LE GRUYÈRE SWITZERLAND.” This protected designation was superseded by adoption of the Protected Designation of Origin (“PDO”) for GRUYÈRE in 2001.

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In addition, a third party’s use of an invention before its registration by another is also relevant to assess patent infringement. This is, before the date the patent application was filed or before the priority date of a prior registration claimed in that application. 65/2001, of January 31, 2001 ).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Respondent secured federal trademark registration for “Get Lucky” in 1986, and the Petitioner commenced offering garments employing the registered trademark “Lucky Brand” and term “Lucky” a few years later, in 1990. This case saw the issuance of several marks.

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SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2023

The plaintiff is the proprietor of the word marks “Zenith” and other “Zenith” device mark and the defendant had registration over “Zenith” device which was later revoked by the IPAB, causing the defendant to use the impugned variant. million in damages to Constellation Designs LLC for infringing its patents in NextGenTV.

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Garrigues Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Although these assets are similar, their purpose is not identical, and this fact should be taken into consideration when designing an effective protective strategy to ensure that the rights in these signs are enforced in respect of third parties. In particular, article 7.1

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2013, Interprofession du Gruyère, sought and received from the USPTO a certification mark for a design with stylized font, for the letters “AOC”, a Swiss cross, and the words “LE GRUYÈRE SWITZERLAND.” The test turns upon the primary significance that the term would have to the relevant public.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

the Office’s recent registrability decision regarding the graphic novel created by Kris Kashtanova creates nearly insurmountable, unnecessary hurdles to all kinds of AI authorship. Prediction and control of output have taken an outsized role in recent registrability and policy statements from the U.S. 16 Casa Duse, LLC v.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 23, 2023

is the duty of the proprietor of an OPC to designate a successor who will assume control of the business upon the proprietor’s demise. The requisite number of individuals to establish a private corporation is two, whereas the minimum number of citizens for a public company is seven.An

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

” the Office’s recent registrability decision regarding the graphic novel created by Kris Kashtanova creates nearly insurmountable, unnecessary hurdles to all kinds of AI authorship. Prediction and control of output have taken an outsized role in recent registrability and policy statements from the U.S. Merkin , 791 F.3d

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The IPKat

JULY 26, 2021

MOCCA (and picture)’ as shown below, filed by a company named Rui Chang in March 2011, was approved for registration in China in May 2012 (No. E.g., the book Coffee Blending published by the Guangdong Economic Press in 2001 wrote that ‘Yemen coffee is the original Mocha coffee, named after the old name of the port of Al Mukha today’.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

From PR newswire, apparently a still from the 2001 film registered trademark For the 2001 Documentary, Monbo “organize[d] a group of highly skilled dirt-bike riders” to participate in a scripted film “that would highlight the exploits of an ostentatious group of dirt-bike riders in Baltimore called 12 O’Clock Boyz.”

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IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

Williams-Sonoma commented that Amazon’s own product line “Rivet” has infringed patents of furniture designs. [3] LEXIS 18660 & 2001 U.S. Often, the third-party sellers engage in selling, distributing and importing of patented product through Amazon channels without consent of the holder or license to sell that particular product.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

iii] [Image Sources : Shutterstock] As a result, a corporation is globally recognized when it has met the registration criteria in its State of incorporation. Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Sec. In all the other terms, the incorporation theory often governs the question of recognition when it is used to determine prevailing law.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 2, 2021

Goods or items produced outside Bangladesh involving infringement of the Copyright Act, 2000 or infringement of layout design of integrated circuits that are intended for sale or use for commercial purposes within the territory of Bangladesh. A Unique Temporary Registration Number (UTRN) is generated on filing the online application.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

Leading up to the UK’s general election on July 4, the Green Party designed a brat green graphic mimicking the album cover, replacing the word ‘Brat’ with the message ‘Vote Green’. 5(3)(k) of the InfoSoc Directive 2001/29 ) from the possibility to register ‘brat green’ as a colour mark.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 18, 2021

For example (the details vary a little depending on defendant, but you get the picture): The STURGIS BIKE WEEK registration dates to 1997; defendants’ “Sturgis Motor Classic” came from 1997-98. The Composite Design Mark registration specifically acknowledged that it made “no claim. apart from the mark as shown.”

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2022

The next time you would like to protect the design on a T-shirt, the pattern of design on fabric, or a jewelry design, you should consider whether your work can be copyrighted. ” [1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward. ” [8]. .”

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