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“Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!” – Trademark battle over “Dunder Mifflin”

IPilogue

NBC Universal has filed a lawsuit against Jay Kennette Media Group (“JKMG”), an entertainment company over the latter’s registration of the mark “Dunder Mifflin.” NBC claims that JKMG is practicing trademark squatting to unfairly make money by registering trademarks belonging to others. What is trademark squatting?

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Be Bold but Never Break the Trademark Mold:Implications of Delhi HC’s Decision in PepsiCo v. Parle Agro

IP and Legal Filings

PepsiCo had registered the tagline “For the Bold” as a trademark in 2013 for its Doritos tortilla chips and used it extensively for promotions when it was launched in India in 2015. For the Bold” incorporated in its entirety the registered trademark “For the Bold”. For the Bold!” on “proposed to be used” basis.

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Erik K Pelton - Untitled Article

Erik K Pelton

trademark registrations and have been involved in dozens of disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). In addition to representing myriad small business trademark owners, EMP&A itself is a small business and the owner of more than a dozen U.S. trademark registrations.

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Genus-Species in Trademark Law Usage

Patently-O

Dollar Financial holds registered trademarks for MONEY MART – the name it uses for its payday and title loan venders as well as pawn shops and pawn brokerages. The USPTO then granted the registrations associated with the new uses. The USPTO then granted the registrations associated with the new uses.

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New CJEU referral on interplay between bad faith and trade mark functionality

The IPKat

On 23 August 2021, CeramTec applied for registration of three European Union trade marks (EUTMs): the three-dimensional mark No 10 214 179 in the colour ‘pink, Pantone 677 C’ (to the upper right), the figurative mark No 10 214 112 in the colour ‘pink, Pantone 677 C’, and the mark No 10 214 195 consisting in the colour pink, Pantone 677 C.

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Inter American Convention allows claims that Lanham Act makes dubious after Abitron; but what about Article III?

43(B)log

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.

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Africa IP Highlights #2: The trademarks arena

The IPKat

The Plaintiffs highlighted specific instances where the Defendants falsely represented themselves as the Plaintiffs when applying for work for the Kenya Film Commission’s Technical Proposal KFC/OT/05/2013/2014 by using the Plaintiffs’ trademark ‘ACAL' without the Plaintiffs’ authority or consent.