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Trademark Tug-of-War: Shezan Brands Battle Over Trademark Registrations

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

The plaintiffs claim that Intershez and Shezan, LLC fraudulently registered Shezan Services trademarks in the United States and used these registrations to have U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detain shipments of genuine Shezan products.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

Kashishipr

SSPL was incorporated in 2004. When SSPL was incorporated in 2004, SK Oil Industries had assigned it the label’s copyright. The argument that copyright protection and trademark registration were two different things and lacked connection and that an individual or entity couldn’t own both was wholly incorrect.

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Bad Faith in Using “Cham”: Champengwine Denied TM Registration in Singapore

IP and Legal Filings

The word “Champengwine” was denied registration by the Registrar in Singapore stating bad faith on the part of the Applicant. Keep waddling International Pte Ltd (Applicant) used to sell their wines originating from Chile since April 2004. Image Source: getty images]. Geographical Indication.

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Just when you thought it was over. it's not! Sky/SkyKick saga heading to UK Supreme Court

The IPKat

A useful timeline of events was provided by Darren Meale in his guestpost concerning last year’s Court of Appeal decision: July 2017: High Court refuses a pre-trial reference to the CJEU as premature [2017] EWHC 1769 (see Retromark Volume II ) February 2018: High Court’s 358 paragraph judgment finding infringement subject to referral questions [2018] (..)

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EU Commission Encourages Use of New Anti-Piracy Toolbox

TorrentFreak

In respect of domain names, Directive (EU) 2022/2555 obliges “TLD name registries and entities providing domain name registration services” to “collect and guarantee the integrity and availability of domain name registration data.”

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TTAB Orders Cancellation of Safety Helmet Registrations Due to Lack of Acquired Distinctiveness

The TTABlog

In a whopping 163-page opinion, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of two registrations for the configuration of safety helmets, rejecting Petitioner Honeywell's Section 2(e)(5) functionality claim but sustaining Honeywell's claim of lack of acquired distinctiveness. In re Morton-Norwich Prods., Text Copyright John L. Welch 2023.

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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. It opposed the trade mark registration on several grounds, including that the trade mark was similar to a trade mark which has acquired a reputation in Australia and the application was made in bad faith.