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Precedential No. 11: TTAB Upholds 2(a) False Connection Refusal of LEATHERNECKS for Motorcycle Club Membership

The TTABlog

The Leathernecks Motorcycle Club was thwarted in its attempt to register the collective membership mark LEATHERNECKS in the design form shown immediately below. Nothing in Section 4 exempts collective membership marks from Section 2(a). 2008 TTAB LEXIS 19, at *55 (TTAB 2008)." Text Copyright John L.

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Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities

IIPRD

AI and intellectual property rights (IPR) aren’t just something for the patent and copyright geeks to nerd out on although it is that, it is something that going to have a lot of commercial and social impacts as AI challenges a lot of the ways we function in IPR.

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Protection of Trademarks in Philippines

IP and Legal Filings

There is no such thing as an “international copyright” that will automatically protect an author’s writings throughout the world. The Philippines is a member of several international copyright treaties and conventions and offers copyright protection to foreign works in accordance with these treaties.

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

LexBlog IP

Here in a nutshell is the query the Court addressed: 16 Under Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001, trade marks which are devoid of any distinctive character shall not be registered. ” In fact, sound marks have been the focus of many in the EU. ” In fact, sound marks have been the focus of many in the EU. .;