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The impact of Geographical Identification tags on Indian local markets and economies

IP and Legal Filings

Geographical indications bring a sense of security that protects unique property that belongs to a particular geographical location, increasing its value in the market. By throwing more light on the market economy and local market, it can be noted that G.I. This was the first product from India to be granted the GI tag in 2004.

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Court Rejects Law Firm’s Bid to Directly Obtain BitTorrent Users’ Identities

TorrentFreak

Law Firm Seeks Rightsholder-Like Rights In an application submitted to Finland’s Market Court on March 15, 2024, the law firm Hedman Partners Oy sought a court order to compel an unnamed internet service provider to provide the personal details of an unspecified number of subscribers.

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One trade mark to rule them all? LORD OF THE RINGS loses opposition in Australia

The IPKat

Lord of the Fries is an Australian casual dining fast food chain that started as a food truck in Melbourne in 2004. 887543 in Class 30 for "Confectionery; bakery goods and cereal-based products; flavourings for beverages; chocolate and cocoa-based beverages; jellies and ices, icecreams and edible ice blocks."

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Nutraceuticals in Colombia

Olartemoure Blog

It is to be mentioned that many products fall in different regulatory categories than those whereby they were registered in the country of origin, sometimes requiring additional technical documentation for its sanitary registration (Marketing Authorization-MA). Sentence 2004-00883 of June 7, 2018.

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Central Role of IP and Marketing in Business Design

azrights

This is one of the many misconceptions about IP that I’ve noticed since starting my business in 2004. There was no real marketing or business guidance. Even if entrepreneurs did seek out a marketer and a graphic designer separately, IP strategy would be missing because neither of these professionals are trained in IP.

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BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic

TorrentFreak

Back in 2004, in the pre-Web 2.0 Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too. In the past two decades, Internet traffic has exploded with more bytes being transferred in each successive year. Even among pirates, file-sharing is no longer as relevant as it once was.

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Sony vs. Datel: Game Cheat Copyright Questions Referred to EU’s Top Court

TorrentFreak

The company’s Action Replay range battled against Codemasters’ Game Genie, with the latter eventually backing out of the market. Sony Sends in the Lawyers When Sony released the PSP in 2004, the race to run ‘homebrew’ software on the PSP also began.

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