The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Facts Ouest SCS sells various second-hand and brand-new goods under the Easy Cash banner in France. Under these conditions, Chanel could therefore validly object to the resale of its products by Ouest SCS even if the litigious products had been lawfully placed on the market. Relying on a combined reading of the former Article L.

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Patently-O

JUNE 29, 2022

That divide allows the company to cater to local market preferences and regulations and also avoid potential arbitrage. In the 1970’s Coca-Cola withdrew its flagship sugary cola from the Indian market at a time of heavy regulation of foreign companies. In the 1990s, the Indian market opened again to foreign competition.

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Patently-O

JUNE 1, 2022

Barclays purchases a number of Lehman Brothers businesses and accompanying goodwill back in 2008 as part of the bankruptcy proceedings. I]n modern consumer markets commercial trademarks are often licensed for use on products that may differ from the original source of the trademark. But, as they say ‘any publicity is good publicity.’.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Globe IPTV Use of the Globe brand in connection with TV piracy dates back over a decade. The supply of CCCAM servers focused on Sky broadcasts may have laid the groundwork for its entry into the IPTV market towards 2014/2015. Similar claims featured in subsequent submissions to the EC and the USTR’s Notorious Markets Report.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

The Court addressed these issues and it rejected the defendants claim that PENTA was generic and found that their use of the mark was deceptively similar, causing consumer confusion and diluting Volvos brand. Key observations included the phonetic similarity between the marks and the defendants apparent intent to create market confusion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

eBay case from 2008. The court also implies that the plaintiffs made a failure-to-warn claim, which should bypass Section 230 per the Internet Brands case , but the court didn’t discuss that possibility. Apple appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Limitation of Liability. Apple, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That very little content was available to buy legally online not only helped to fuel the crisis, in this underdeveloped market many ISPs still had just one key product to sell; internet access and the bandwidth it consumed.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 6, 2022

Over the past few years, a sound mark has become widely recognized as a trademark in different industries and markets. In 2008, India received its first-ever sound trademark registration from the American web services provider, Yahoo Inc. Additionally, the brand is what a customer links with the company.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

Several times, we see that luxury brands come up with limited edition products, whether it is cars, watches, cosmetics, chocolates, electronics, etc., The brand does not create more of these to maintain the attractiveness and exclusivity associated with the limited or special edition products.

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IPilogue

JUNE 29, 2022

Since his passing in 2008, the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) at the University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws has organized and delivered Annual Sir Hugh Laddie lectures , in honour of Justice Laddie, the founder of IBIL. Sir Hugh Laddie was born in 1946 and studied law at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 21, 2023

After popping onto the e-commerce scene in 2008, it has sky-rocketed into a $100 billion company as it sells more clothing than any other brand worldwide. By: Clark Hill PLC

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2021

In 2008, it launched its successful “Align” yoga mat line. lululemon’s brand also displays prominently in its keyword ads. If they really wanted to build their business, they could have invested that money into marketing instead of legal fees. lululemon appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While they commonly consist of a brand name or logo, the shape of a product may also be an indication of its origin. In simple terms, the shape must be highly recognizable, noticeably distinct from other products in the market, and offer a clear indication of the origin of the product. Trademarks indicate the origin of a product.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 15, 2022

When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly $12,100,000) for its inaugural sale. [1] A relaxed regulatory environment helps explain the enormous growth of the Chinese art market.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

2008) case, they further reinforce this point, emphasizing that the unauthorized reproduction of protected creative elements, such as music, constitutes copyright infringement. Visual Elements: Podcast cover art, promotional graphics, logos , and any visual branding elements that accompany the podcast. Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In 2008, that was an unusual achievement. Nezar Saeed Hammo allegedly acted as Alfa’s marketing manager while Mohammed Abu Oun was identified as the company’s general manager. did business under the pirate IPTV brand ElafnetTV, which in turn described itself as the “Biggest Arabic IPTV Provider in the World.”

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Prize draws and promotions are a popular choice for brands to engage with its consumers, particularly through online social media platforms. The resources page features videos and comprehensive advice, covering areas from marketing to dealing with unexpected events. Legal advice should always be obtained however.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Furthermore, it is debatable whether the creation of NFTs can be considered “fair use”, since (i) this generates a “new” public and a new “digital” market for artworks that, to date, only existed in the real world and (ii) it deprives de facto copyright holders of a potential source of income.

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Patently-O

APRIL 15, 2023

In 2007, UCB invented and marketed “original Neupro,” a transdermal patch for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease containing a dispersion of amorphous rotigotine and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), with the PVP functioning as a stabilizer. market in April 2008 (although it remained in limited use under a compassionate-use program).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2023

It will enable the metaverse to run smoothly without any brand abusing and illegal copying of the existing IP owners. As the number of companies are increasing in the domestic and international markets the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is also increasing. In the well-known 2008 case of E.S.S

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Garrigues Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Can a well-known watch brand prevent the protection of another identical or similar trademark for other types of goods such as cosmetics? However, the reality of the market is quite different, since companies are increasingly operating under the same brand in the clothing, footwear, jewelery, watch and accessories industries.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Prize draws and promotions are a popular choice for brands to engage with its consumers, particularly through online social media platforms. The resources page features videos and comprehensive advice, covering areas from marketing to dealing with unexpected events. Legal advice should always be obtained however.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Under the CAP Code, brands should take care to ensure they do not exaggerate the capability or performance of a product. Marketers must hold documentary evidence to prove claims that consumers are likely to regard as objective and that are capable of objective substantiation. None of the advertisers responded to the ASA.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

According to Lifestyle Equities, BHPC products that were lawfully made, advertised, and distributed in the United States with the permission of the US rights owner are being marketed and sold by Amazon in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is a kind of counterfeiting.

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These items have restricted production and remain in the market only for a short duration of time. They almost never re-enter the market again. This creates scarcity of the product in the market. Basic principles of economics dictate that when a product is scarce in nature, its demand in the market tends to increase.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

According to Lifestyle Equities, BHPC products that were lawfully made, advertised, and distributed in the United States with the permission of the US rights owner are being marketed and sold by Amazon in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is a kind of counterfeiting.

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IIPRD

JUNE 8, 2024

A thriving market for knockoffs has resulted from influencers’ endorsement of more reasonably priced alternatives to high-end products. Fundamentals concerning this trend’s effects on consumer perceptions, intellectual property rights, and brand integrity are brought up.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

He had been selling “METAL” branded clothing since the early 1990s, primarily through hard rock music magazines. He gradually expanded his offerings to a variety of markets, including motorcyclists, skaters, lumberjacks and “headbangers.”. He apparently drew and began using the stylized “METAL” mark sometime around 1997.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But in an interesting twist, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has recently set aside the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA’s) infringement decision in its Compare The Market investigation relating to use of wide MFN clauses. Read more. .

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Herbert Smith Freehills

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But in an interesting twist, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has recently set aside the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA’s) infringement decision in its Compare The Market investigation relating to use of wide MFN clauses. Read more. .

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Under the CAP Code, brands should take care to ensure they do not exaggerate the capability or performance of a product. Marketers must hold documentary evidence to prove claims that consumers are likely to regard as objective and that are capable of objective substantiation. None of the advertisers responded to the ASA.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In his inaugural season, he finished runner-up; in 2008, he won his first title to become the then-youngest ever Formula 1 World Champion. In 2014, Lewis Hamilton was ranked ‘the most marketable athlete’. The BoA concluded that consumers could believe that the contested application is a sub-brand of the earlier mark.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A branded drug manufacturer can sometimes extend its exclusive right to market a drug by patenting a method of using the drug and successfully suing a potential generic competitor for infringement based on the premise that an instruction or warning appearing on the generic product’s label will induce doctors and/or patients to infringe the patent.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Through a licensing agreement, Hilti also markets and sells the Firestop Box Insert based in part on that same patent. Hilti was authorized to use the UL mark on its label through UL’s Multiple Listing service, which basically allows one product to piggyback off another identical product that is sold under another brand name.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The touchstone is whether ordinary consumers in the relevant market are likely to be confused about the source of the goods. 2013) (“[The accused infringer] has in fact scrupulously avoided such confusion by choosing a starkly different logo that it prominently displays on its [products] and on all its sales and marketing literature.”).

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Intepat

MAY 8, 2023

It is a decade-long dispute between the countries for claiming the geographical indication of Basmati in the European markets. The GI recognition enables consumers to trust and distinguish quality products while also helping producers to market their products better. What is a Geographical Indication?

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 8, 2024

Karanveer Singh Chhabra, emerges as a poignant saga, pitting the stalwarts of the liquor industry against each other in a quest for brand integrity and consumer trust. Whether the consumers of such products be able to differentiate between both brands? In this realm, the case of Pernod Ricard India Pvt. Deejay Distilleries (P) Ltd.

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