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. Under trademark law, however, phrases are frequently deemed not to disclose the commercial origin of products or services, which is a trademark’s primary role. 2017/1001 and thus can be registered as a trademark.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, using a generic term as a trademark is a tricky play, SUN is a good example of an arbitrary trademark reason being as it is used for computer products and its extensive use has acquired distinctiveness. Indian Trademarks Act of 1999 prohibits the registration of generic trademarks under section 9(1).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2021

Aliign “is an event, lifestyle, and apparel company” allegedly with a first trademark use in 2011. Aliign sued lululemon for trademark infringement. If they really wanted to build their business, they could have invested that money into marketing instead of legal fees. lululemon sought summary judgment.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

But trademark plaintiffs and judges are still partying like it’s 1999. The plaintiff is Seeking Arrangements, one of my favorite websites to base my Internet Law exams on. The court starts its trademark analysis nostalgically: “Turn back the clock to the Internet’s nascent age—1999.” Marketing channels.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

They are marketed through different, yet related, channels of trade (sports and entertainment, which were melded together as ESPN’s original name ). I am unaware of any reported comparison, but I did find the latter compared to a toilet flushing and have seen the former’s trademark suffer indignities at times too ).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 5, 2023

On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court adopted a restrictive view of the extraterritorial application of the Lanham Act, holding that federal trademark law cannot support a claim for trademark infringement against solely foreign conduct. commerce, meaning that profits lost to trademark infringers abroad cannot be recovered in U.S.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But the facts pertaining to its market share indicate that the mark has achieved distinctiveness. The statutory threshold for proving trademark dilution is pegged higher when compared to trademark infringement and passing off. The Trademark Reporter, Vol. states that “The brand names serve as information ‘chunks’.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. Monaghan Trademark Owner Sues Over Alleged Twittersquatting–Coventry First, LLC v. Gutman appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case citation : JLM Couture, Inc. Christou v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

They included stories of the Patent Agent examination, the Indian Innovation Act, the opening of the Trademark database, the presumption of patent validity, and the South Asian Basmati fights and more. This raised a question did the registrar of Trade Marks have the jurisdiction to revoke the ‘MANJAL’ trademark?, But this is not all!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” b)(4)(i)(A) (2011). Note, however, that EH101 was not one of the confined designs, so that it was made available to the public in January 2011.). 574 (2011). 3d at 1196.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It apparently conducted market research and discovered that P&P was one of the most successful sellers on Amazon in this category. In March 2019, P&P sued Johnson Enterprises for trade dress infringement under section 43(a) of the Lanham Act and unfair competition under California law.

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