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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

Initially, neither the 1992 Law on Trademarks, Service Marks and Designations of Origin , nor the 1992 Patent Law , had provided that putting patented or trademarked goods onto the market within Russia exhausted IP rights.

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Protection of Trademarks in Cambodia

IP and Legal Filings

Regarding the IPR matters, Cambodia has issued the following legal documents: • Law concerning Marks, Trade Name and Acts of Unfair Competition dated January 8, 2002; • Law on Patents, Utility Model Certificates and Industrial Designs, in force since January 2003; • Law on Copyright and Related Right, in force since March 2003.

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Deceptive Similarity in Trademark

IP and Legal Filings

Trademarks are used to distinguish one person’s goods and services from that of others. It is many types, for example, service mark, proprietary mark, product mark, collective mark, word mark. certification mark etc. The plaintiff manufactured and market it under the trade mark AZIWOK.

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Navigating the Global Intellectual Property Landscape: Key Treaties and Agreements

IIPRD

‘The Paris Convention’, adopted in March 1883 and revised in the years 1900, 1911, 1925, 1934, 1958, 1967, and 1979, comprehensively addresses “patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and geographical indications”. [1] 8 (1994): 2621–29. [8] 9] “WIPO Copyright Treaty, Dec. 20, 1996, S.

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Hark! The Herald Trademarks Sing: A Holiday Trademark Extravaganza

LexBlog IP

” Scrooge wasn’t the only one who had that idea: a business owner registered ALWAYS CHRISTMAS & Design as a service mark in 1995 (Registration No. ” In any event, the SPIRIT OF KWANZAA is alive and well: that mark was registered for community outreach and related services in 2002 (Registration No.

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Full Of Sound And Query, Signifying Something: Recent Noise Over Acoustic Trademarks

LexBlog IP

The TMEP lists ‘a series of tones or musical notes’ and ‘wording accompanied by music’ as two examples of potentially registrable forms of sound marks. 3618321), and “[t]he NBC chimes sequence [, which] actually became the first ‘purely audible’ service mark to register with the USPTO in 1950.”