SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

Case Summaries Vst Industries Limited vs Asd Tobacco Private Limited & Anr on 6 March, 2025 (Delhi High Court) The petitioner, filed the petition to remove the respondents registration for the mark CHUMS from the Trade Mark Register. The appellant filed the present appeal.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Registration of a Mask Work.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 3, 2023

Moreover, the GI registration of Basmati has been a big issue in itself for which the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) was empowered to register it. What’s in the GI Registration numbers? : decades, and the number has now reached an impressive 478 GI registrations as per the DPIIT website !

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As detailed in the opinion , 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. In March 2005, the mark was registered ( Registration No. Then, in June 2005, Dan Tana applied to register DAN TANA for restaurant services.

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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. The Kremen case involved the alleged theft of the sex.com domain name by improperly modifying the electronic records evidencing ownership of the domain name. WhenU concluded that copyright was a dead-end. 1-800 Contacts v.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 13, 2022

The Board has re-designated as precedential its April 2001 decision dismissing an opposition to registration of the mark SPINTIRES for computer games and software. 95 USPQ2d 1327 (TTAB 2010). Therefore, a claim based on lack of ownership is not available when the application is not based on use of the mark in commerce.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

2,990,814 (the “‘814 Registration”), has been used in U.S. 1057(b), Poulsen claims the ‘814 Registration is prima facie evidence of the validity of the Mark, Poulsen’s ownership of the Mark, and Poulsen’s exclusive right to use the Mark in commerce. In 2010, J&P Park Acquisitions, Inc. Federal Trademark Reg.

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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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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2022

Specimen of work in the copyright registration of Crosplus Home Furnishing (Shanghai) Co., in China a copyright is automatically attached to a work upon its completion without registration. Copyright registrations can also be recorded at China customs to stop infringing goods from being exported overseas. Like in the U.S.,

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Industria has never had a registration for Ranchera; its application was opposed by an unrelated third party and has been suspended; a prior registration for Zenú was cancelled and Industria never sold any Zenú or Ranchera products in the United States when it owned that registered trademark. Prior import plans in 2010-11 were paused.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Although it did not resume use of the mark for seven years, it commenced TTAB litigation with ARSA in 2016 regarding ownership of the mark. In July 2016, applicant petitioned to cancel ARSA's registration, and in 2017 it applied to register its EUCALIN word-and-design mark. In May 2015, applicant was removed from the SDNT list.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Petitioner JNF LLC was undoubtedly unhappy with the result of its petition to cancel a registration for the mark HAPPIEST HOUR for bar and restaurant services. Registrant Harwood International enjoyed a constructive first use date of October 6, 2014, the filing date of its underlying application. 96 USPQ2d 1031, 1036 (TTAB 2010).

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The TTABlog

MAY 25, 2023

However, Applicant JBL failed to prove that this design has acquired distinctiveness, and so registration was refused on the Principal Register, but the Board accepted JBL's alternative amendment to the Supplemental Register. JBL pointed to its ownership of seven design patents for rocking chairs of the same or a very similar configuration.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We have already traversed through Junes , Julys , Augusts , Septembers , Octobers , Novembers , Decembers , and shared some stories like Rahul Cherian’s Legacy, 2010’s International Efforts on Pandemics, Corruption in IP Offices, Law Making via Leaked Documents, etc. It’s the 8th post of this monthly series.

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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. Fashion companies should be aware that they may need to obtain a license to, or ownership of, the copyright from the photographer. 2010) (citing Lee v. 2010) (quoting Payless Shoesource, Inc. 13] 35 U.S.C. §

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Above the Fold

JULY 5, 2022

1] The best part about a copyright is that its registration is typically inexpensive and straightforward. Fashion companies should be aware that they may need to obtain a license to, or ownership of, the copyright from the photographer. 2010) (citing Lee v. 2010) (quoting Payless Shoesource, Inc. 2d 1214, 1217 (S.D.

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