The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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. These provisions were further transferred into the Civil Code in 2006.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Today, several generic terms that we use, such as ‘escalator,’ ‘xerox,’ ‘cellophane,’ sound common but were once protected as trademarks. ” For combating trademark genericide, conventional trademark enforcement measures have to be coupled with unconventional methods.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. So too with plaintiffs’ 2003 Documentary. The court, in a careful opinion, rejected all the claims. This gave them a different “total concept and feel.”

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IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

As a result, the Mickey Mouse copyright was then set to expire at the end of 2003. Although the original Mickey Mouse’s copyright protection will expire at the end of 2023, Disney will still be able to protect the Mickey Mouse brand through trademark law.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 21, 2022

Under the trademark law, the trade dress encompasses the visual aspect of a product and it comprises several distinctive features with respect to the shape, size, packaging, colour combination, textures, graphics etc. References: [1] 2003 (27) PTC 478 Del. [2] Scope for Protection of Trade Dress in India. 2] CS(COMM) 76/2018.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Although Kobe started his career with Adidas, he changed to Nike in 2003, and he stayed there for the rest of his life. If you pay much attention to sneakers, you might know that the agreement between Nike and the Bryant Estate for Nike’s line of Kobe sneakers recently expired.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The year 2022 has been an extremely important year for the development of trademark jurisprudence in India. There have been various landmark judgements which have not only highlighted cardinal principles of trademark law but have also given a nuanced understanding of how Courts interpret statutory trademark provisions.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 26, 2023

However, the extent of protection and applicable principles of trademark law that surround the numeral trademark takes center stage in the discussion. Names like 7-eleven, 5 Star, 7Up, and 99acres resonate with consumers, widely reflecting the innovative use of number as brand identities.

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Intepat

JUNE 7, 2024

Ltd , 2003(27)PTC478(DEL), Colgate’s assertion that the color red constituted a component of their brand’s trade dress was refuted by Anchor in the dispute over the use of the color red on toothpaste packaging. The use of color as a distinguishing element under trademark law is subject to a number of requirements.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The Federal Circuit’s pair of decisions provide guidance on how logos factor into the design patent infringement inquiry, and begin to tease-out differences in policy concerns underlying design patent law versus trademark law. For trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, likelihood of consumer confusion is a key requirement.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This post discusses the case and argues that there already exists a mechanism under the Patent and trademark laws that govern and supervise such agents. Plus, I argue that the liability of such an agent should be analogized with legal practitioners for which we already have sound jurisprudence and laws regarding professional conduct.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 11, 2023

19] Being able to distinguish one’s trademark falls at the centre of the trademark law, as otherwise, it is liable to be rejected under Section 9(1) of the Act. As cited in Intellectual Property Law, Bently, Sherman, Gangjee, & Johnson at page 957. [11] Joot Kist, Case C-283/01, [2003] ECR-I-14313. [12]

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first and the foremost question which crosses our minds is that does the digital assets in the virtual reality fall under the category of “Goods” under trademark law, and who should be held liable for infringement when the infringer is unknown. It also protects the product from unauthorized use by a third party.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2024

Verma, another Indian professor from DU who was also the president of ATRIP (2001-2003), mentions this as starting in 1968 (as opposed to 1967) in a separate report on IP teaching in India. Moreover, as the 1987 report notes, IP litigation was very limited at that time, except for trademark law.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Unfortunately, copyright and trademark law do not provide particular protection for these characters, who, more often than not, exceed their original works to become well-known of their own. Introduction: Whether they arise from literary, artistic, or cinematic works, fictional characters are born of greater productions.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s not possible to “trespass” an intangible asset; any legal protection for the asset comes from contract law (but the plaintiffs gave a license) or IP law, such as copyright law, which the plaintiffs aren’t invoking. Citing a 2003 Ninth Circuit case, Kremen v. It didn’t.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

No wonder I’m getting flashbacks to 2003. As I explained in my discussion of the Rick Astley lawsuit , right of publicity and trademark law provided viable claims to Bette Midler and Tom Waits when imitations of their voices were used in advertising. Soundalikes: No Actual Sounds, No Actual Infringement?

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 14, 2023

It was pleaded that the defendants were using a deceptively similar trademark that could not be differentiated from the trademark registered and used by the Plaintiff. Image Sources : Gettyimages] The trademark was first adopted by M/s Lal Chand Tirath Ram Rice Mills in 1985 and thereafter, in 2003, was assigned to the Plaintiff.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

The report notes on page 11 that “In 2003, research estimates put the [U.S.] Second , it has been argued that the court merely espoused the settled principles of trademark law that ‘common’ names and phrases cannot be monopolized. ” Ginsburg (2003) at 1086-87. ’”(emphasis added).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Joost Kist Memex (2003) , par. Though there are only 333 EU registered sound marks, according to EUIPO January 1996 to July 2022 statistics (section 5.2 at page 36 of 53), sixty-four of them have registered in the last three years, thus roughly 20+ per year (That compares to about 11.6 per year from 1996 to 2019).

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Arvee Enterprises in 2003. Jaitley’s right and pronounced that any person may be restrained from using the names of popular or well-known celebrities, when the particular name is a well-known trademark as envisaged under the basic principles of trademark law and thatcelebrity is entitled to use his name for commercial purposes.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 12, 2021

2003) (quoting Mark S. 471, 500 (2003)). [16] Lemley, What the Right of Publicity Can Learn from Trademark Law , 58 Stan. 903, 930 (2003) (“[T]here is good reason to think… that the right of publicity is unconstitutional as to all noncommercial speech, and perhaps even as to commercial advertising as well.”). [24]

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