The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

Both Nike and Jacquemus are brands retaining a remarkable legacy in the realm of fashion … and IP too. The bag was first launched on Jacquemus’ Instagram account and stirred an intense debate among the brands’ audience.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 2, 2021

European trademark law requires genuine use of a trademark to maintain registration. Lack of use may cancel a trademark’s registration; as well, any oppositions based on a trademark without genuine use may not withstand a non-usage defense. . Tugce Kucukali is an IPilogue Writer and incoming LL.M. Hasbro v EUIPO.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In an otherwise straightforward Section 2(d) analysis, the Board ruled that confusion is likely between Respondent's registered marks MIRAGE BRANDS (standard form) and MIRAGE BRANDS & Design [BRANDS disclaimed], and Petitioner Mahender Sabhnani's previously used and registered mark ROYAL MIRAGE & Design , all for perfume.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2021

IPNews® – On August 12, 2021, Louis Poulsen A/S submitted a trademark opposition against Google for the trademark “Nest” The trademark cited in the opposition notice relates to the LP Nest brand — which filed for registration back in June 2010.

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The TTABlog

MAY 29, 2024

The same applicant met the same fate in this attempt to register that same phrase for "Online retail store services featuring clothing, jewelry, bags, gifts, home goods, hats, blankets, mugs, belts, branded gift bags, floor mats, keychains, novelty toys for playing jokes, and pillows." Eagle Crest , 2010 WL 3441109, at *3."

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Intepat

MAY 12, 2023

The Madrid Protocol allows a brand to protect itself on an international level and gives a user-friendly, cost- effective and expeditious set of procedures in a single application. After successful registration, the trademark is considered to be granted and protected in the member states.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 7, 2022

As a result, the logo and name are registered as trademarks under the act of 1999 to protect the brand name and value. It demonstrates to a buyer where a product came from and how much he can trust that product based on the brand value associated with it. Trademark Infringement. Indirect Infringement. Registered Trademark.

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The IPKat

JULY 26, 2024

Where a defendant relies on a trade mark registration as a defence to infringement, the defendant remains protected against infringement until the registration is cancelled by the Court. Sports fans. Cancellation of a registered trade mark is not retrospective and takes effect from the date of the Court’s judgement.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Obtaining trademark registration for the firm’s unique hashtags gives the company an advantage if another company uses the same hashtag to advertise a competitive product or service in the same sector. b) it must be capable of identifying one person’s services and goods than those of another.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 7, 2022

As a result, the logo and name are registered as trademarks under the act of 1999 to protect the brand name and value. It demonstrates to a buyer where a product came from and how much he can trust that product based on the brand value associated with it. Trademark Infringement. Indirect Infringement. Registered Trademark.

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The IPKat

MAY 16, 2022

Background Inditex, the Spanish fashion group whose flagship store is Zara, sought in 2010 to register the word mark “ZARA” as a European Union trade mark (EUTM) for goods and services in Classes 29 to 32, 35, and 43 (see the table below with a more detailed list). From the BoA decision (R 2040/2019-4, para. T-467/20, para.

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The TTABlog

MAY 26, 2022

The USPTO refused registration of the mark AJ LAMPS for "Lighting apparatus, namely, table lamps" [LAMPS disclaimed], on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the registered mark AJ for "Lighting fixtures; HID lighting fixtures." The Board unsurprisingly found the marks to be similar, but what about the goods?

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Companies seek to protect the value of their trademarks since they can be quite valuable to the brand. As a result, slogan registration is frequently denied due to a lack of distinctiveness. Additionally, odd grammatical structures and/or alliteration, metaphors, rhyme, or paradox may aid in determining whether a phrase is unique.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2023

Trademark Dilution A well-known brand’s owner has the legal authority to forbid third parties from using their mark since doing so compromises their exclusivity or damages their reputation. In reality, no one has the right to imitate any well-known brand or to misuse that trademark’s good name. 2010 (42) PTC 572 (Del.) [2]

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The district court had dismissed the claims as to one of the marks (the "'654 mark") on the ground of claim preclusion, based upon the TTAB's entry of judgment by default on Plaintiff VVV's petition for cancellation of the registration for that one mark. TTABlogged here ]. 7-3 at 1-4.)

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Registrations are open and available here. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by December 7, 2021, and is available here. Gunnercooke is a corporate and commercial law established in 2010 and now has over 260 partners. Attendees will have the opportunity to contribute to the concluding discussion.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2023

A feature of trademark law known as trademark dilution gives the brand owner exclusive rights to the mark, providing them a strong and recognisable trademark. In accordance with a provision of trademark law known as trademark dilution, the owner of a brand may. 2010 (42) PTC 572 (Del.) What is Trademark Dilution?

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 24, 2022

By establishing a brand name, a service provider in the hospitality industry can benefit from having many customers and build a good reputation. Hotels and restaurants must get their brand names and logos registered as trademarks for the ease of operating a business in India. Trademark for the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Stone had began marketing an online ‘metaphysical education’ course under the brand ‘ARCHANGEL ALCHEMY’ in or around July 2019, with the course first starting on 23 September 2019 and running until 21 September 2020. A counterclaim for passing off and a declaration of invalidity of Stone’s trade mark was also submitted.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

the Court, with a 2-1 majority, found that the Board wrongly cancelled the registration of a trademark holder due to the filing of a fraudulent declaration by its former attorney to obtain incontestable status of the trademark “DANTANNA’S.” Section 14 allows for a petition to cancel registration of a mark that was “obtained fraudulently.”

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 4, 2023

To prevent the undue usage of their goodwill and branding celebrities used to get their names registered under the trademark act. A celebrity can be a person who has public recognition and has some goodwill and branding attached to his name. Thus, it can be assumed that registration of names as trademarks is allowed.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to the Complaint, Poulsen developed a unique currant red hybrid tea rose variety branded with the trademark INGRID BERGMAN (the “Mark”) in the early 1980s. 2,990,814 (the “‘814 Registration”), has been used in U.S. Gardens Alive’s family of brands include, among others, Weeks Roses. Federal Trademark Reg.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Topco Holdings opposed registration of READY4LIFE for sanitizers for personal use, alleging a likelihood of confusion with its registered marks READY FOR LIFE and SIMPLY DONE READY FOR LIFE for various personal goods and cleaning products. 94 USPQ2d 1942, 1949 (TTAB 2010). See , e.g. , ProMark Brands Inc. GFA Brands, Inc.,

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

There was no substantive change in this modified version of the prior opinion where the majority held that the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board lacked the power to cancel a trademark registration based on fraud in a declaration of incontestability. 2929764 ) for restaurant services. 1:08-CV-975-TWT.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This implies that the registration of a particular trademark may be refused if it attempts to identify with certain wines and spirits that does not originate from the region that the GI tag is related to. Rise in foreign and Indian liquor brands registering for GI tags.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Industria, based on Colombia, produces and distributes food products under two relevant brand names: Zenú and Ranchera. They’re successful brands: approximately $300,000,000 annually in sales of Zenú products and $100,000,000 in sales of Ranchera products. Prior import plans in 2010-11 were paused.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Nevertheless, because adware often provided poor consumer experiences, adware largely fizzled out by 2010. Thus, other cases have applied conversion law to alleged theft of domain name registrations (e.g., WhenU concluded that copyright was a dead-end. 1-800 Contacts v. WhenU concluded that trademarks was a dead-end. Silvaco Data Sys.

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The IPKat

JUNE 11, 2022

Do a quick Google search and you will find many sites explaining the history and significance of the phrase to Apple and its branding, and how it brought a new wave of popularity and interest to a floundering Apple company as of 1997. from 14 October 2011 to 13 October 2016).

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IP Intelligence

MAY 11, 2021

In Perry , the plaintiff produced 60 bottles of his mayonnaise/ketchup and mustard/ketchup concoctions branded METCHUP. Census Bureau, had a population of 8,679 in 2010). The plaintiff testified he hoped to sell more bottles and had obtained a federal registration for the mark, which at the time of the suit was incontestable.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Generic terms are incapable of functioning as registrable trademarks denoting source, and are not registrable on the Supplemental Register or on the Principal Register after having acquired secondary meaning.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Bluetooth”) owns various trademark registrations which it licenses to other companies to use in promoting a product’s Bluetooth-compatibility. FCA rebutted the presumption with an expert survey showing 82% of respondents believe that BLUETOOTH is a generic term rather than a brand name. Bluetooth SIG, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

19 The distinctive character of a trade mark must be assessed by reference, first, to the goods or services in respect of which registration is sought and, second, to the perception of the relevant public (see judgment of 12 February 2004, Henkel, C‑218/01, EU:C:2004:88, paragraph 50 and the case-law cited). ” Ardagh at par.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Eventually, Johnson and Johnson announced that it would no longer enforce their patents for Bedaquiline (brand name: Sirturo) which is used in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 134 low- and middle-income countries. The rejection order is authored by Dr. Latika Dawara, Asst. First, in Toyota v.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The petitioner, with a prior registration since 2010 and evidence of use since 2000, argued against the respondent’s mark registered in December 2018 on a proposed-to-be-used basis. Clover Centrum vs Clover Network Inc. Thus, the Court granted ex parte interim relief in the favor of the Plaintiff.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are few e-commerce companies which explicitly make copies of brands such as Firstcopyclub, ShoesKartel etc. The scam can be at various levels and multi-facet forms including mimicking websites, selling cheaper copies of brands or even stealing ideas of originators [4]. eBay Inc 2010 SCC OnLine US CA 2C 1. [19]

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Generic terms are incapable of functioning as registrable trademarks denoting source, and are not registrable on the Supplemental Register or on the Principal Register after having acquired secondary meaning.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2022

” [1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward. § 102(a); see also Pride Family Brands, Inc. 2010) (citing Lee v. 2010) (quoting Payless Shoesource, Inc. 4]. [9] 35 U.S.C. § Carl’s Patio, Inc. , 2d 1214, 1217 (S.D. 10] See OddzOn Prods.,

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