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Growth in Industrial Design Registrations Sporadic Over Past Decades

Corsearch

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that.

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Puma or Rolex – Which is more famous?

The IPKat

207/2009 (being essentially identical to the currently applicable Art. 207/2009 is that the relevant public must establish a link between the trade marks in question in the sense that the later mark calls the earlier mark to mind. 207/2009 , i.e. an infringement of Rolex’ right to a trade mark with a reputation. 2017/1001 ).

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Prosecco: a plant variety or geographical indication? Singapore Court says "both"!

The IPKat

The case concerned the registration of 'Prosecco' as a GI in Singapore. This Kat was interested to see a court finally address this argument Singapore has offered protection for GIs since 1999, but it only adopted a registration-based system in the last decade with the Geographical Indications Act 2014 ('GIA').

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A Tale of Two Ports? GC holds PORTWO GIN to be an exploitation of PDO

The IPKat

Kat friend, Becky Knott, promises that she doesn’t just write about alcohol, see here , but a recent decision involving the Protected Designation of Origin for ‘Porto’ caught her eye (palate?). 207/2009 due to the date of filing of the application). It held that the opposition was not well founded under Article 8(6) of Regulation No.

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TTAB Finds Two "MAGIC CITY" Logos Confusable for Overlapping Clothing Items

The TTABlog

The Board also found that the design elements of the mark "are not nearly as significant as the marks' literal elements." Applicant argued that the marks have different connotations: that its “palm tree design communicates a tropical place, which is suggestive of the commercial context in which Applicant[] uses its mark. Welch 2022.

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Attars and Agarbattis: Protecting Traditional Cultural Expressions through non-conventional Trademarks

SpicyIP

Smell marks are or have been heavily debated around the world and are privy to their own set of issues in terms of registration. Internationally, the statutory requirements for the registration of non-conventional trademarks varies across jurisdictions. Issues and Barriers to the Registrability of Smell-marks.

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Italian Supreme Court refers questions to CJEU on conflicts between GIs and trade marks

The IPKat

The dispute concerned the geographical indication "Salaparuta" for Sicilian wine, which received protection in Italy in 2006, and then was registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) by the European Commission in 2009. The other wineries had been using the word "Salaparuta" on their labels. Article 14.3