IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Introduction Registration of a trademark is an important step toward building a brand on solid ground. Lack of distinctiveness to incorrect classification are among the common errors that can bring derailment upon your trademark registration. What may pass for the other country may not go well in this country.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And the number of active trademark registrations in the USPTO database is larger than ever. Additionally, since late December 2021, when new procedures went into effect, the USPTO has received around 100 expungement petitions and about 100 re-examination petitions to get rid of registrations for marks that are allegedly not in use.

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43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

U’s registration for THE for clothing and other merchandise by putting THE on a hangtag. Registration v. Much of the law is a collection of rules of thumb from registration context. Hard to think coherently about TM status without thinking about registration v. Profound question for US law.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The number of applications filed, and registrations granted in FY2020 both grew over the prior year, to the highest in history. trademark registrations! Hundreds of trademark applications filed this year referenced masks , COVID, quarantine, social distancing, and other pandemic topics. 2013: [link]. 2018: [link].

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 28, 2024

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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JIPL Online

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

If the title sounds familiar, you are part of the reason Booking.com successfully trademarked “Booking.com” while paving the way for owners of similar marks to receive trademark protection. com” does not make “booking” non-generic for trademark registration when it becomes “Booking.com.” The Decision.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark CS for "amplifiers," finding that Petitioner Adamson Systems proved by a preponderance of the evidence that Respondent Peavey Electronics had discontinued use of the CS mark on amplifiers, with intent not to resume use. Lanham Act, Section 45.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

3] [Image Sources: Shutterstock] Starbucks vs. Charbucks: This long-running dispute from 2001 to 2013 over a small New Hampshire coffee roaster’s use of “Charbucks” for dark roast coffee, arguing that Starbucks had diluted its famous trademark, places a number of issues regarding trademark dilution and parody at the very centre of this case.

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Garrigues Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Acquired distinctiveness is a powerful tool that enables a mark, that would otherwise fall short of the minimum distinctiveness threshold to be registrable as a trademark, to be protected as such. Acquired distinctiveness is a fundamental concept in trademark law. In a similar case involving EU trademark no.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Plaintiffs also alleged infringement of Monbo’s right of publicity, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Lanham Act and related Maryland trademark law. Defendants' 2013 documentary Both parties’ works are “docu-fiction” set in Baltimore. Defendants' 2013 documentary Both parties’ works are “docu-fiction” set in Baltimore.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. Durga Trading Corporation was clarified in this case. In Dhiraj Dewani v.

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Intepat

JUNE 17, 2024

Trademark law underwent substantial changes, both multilaterally and regionally. The Paris Convention established the beginning of the international trademark system, and the Paris Union was expanded by a distinct union which is collectively known as the Madrid system. Allows payment of one set of fees.

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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. Emmi AG was the parent company of Emmi Roth and a member of Interprofession du Gruyère.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, with the publication on 23 October 2012 of UAE Federal Law No. 4 of 2012 Concerning Regulation of Competition all businesses with operations in the UAE or supplying goods and services to the UAE market will have to ensure that they focus on and comply with the provisions of this new law. Trademarks.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Since domain names have a worldwide outreach, its registration is done by an international organization called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Even before applying for registration, the registrant will have to check whether his domain name is similar to any other registered domain name in the WHOIS.

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

This was apparently untrue and in a separate 2008 proceeding, the PTO concluded that this was a false statement, at least as to boots, and cancelled TA’s registration of the METAL mark. Topolewski almost immediately reapplied for the mark, this time through Metal Jeans, which obtained the “METAL” registration in 2013.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2013, Interprofession du Gruyère, sought and received from the USPTO a certification mark for a design with stylized font, for the letters “AOC”, a Swiss cross, and the words “LE GRUYÈRE SWITZERLAND.”

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More recently in 2020, Sankalp Jain discussed the copyright challenges in “Dreams,” a video game enabling user-generated content, arguing for the Indian copyright law’s limitations in addressing the the issues around the fan-made creations within the game. Relevant here are Arun C. I wonder, what’s next in this legal saga?

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Can “honest concurrent use” be used as a defense against a trademark infringement claim? Lokesh, highlighting its history, argues that honest concurrent use is a principle of trademark law and is not limited to a provision. Delhi High Court Imposes Costs worth INR 2 Cr. on Triveni Interchem Pvt.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

It can also mean as the proxy or substitute holder of rights here on earth because no spiritual being will receive a copyright certificate, trademark registrations, or letters patent. courts have denied registration to religious marks as being offensive to other believers or to non-believers. ” But neither the PTO nor U.S.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

In the playpen that is nonverbal marks, the game is all about whether registrants can jump the hurdle between two opposing classifications—product packaging and product configuration. That you could submit a product configuration mark to TTAB and not only get denied registration, but that they could tell you that you can never reapply?

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Jaitley’s right and pronounced that any person may be restrained from using the names of popular or well-known celebrities, when the particular name is a well-known trademark as envisaged under the basic principles of trademark law and thatcelebrity is entitled to use his name for commercial purposes. 2007, I, no.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 8, 2024

Video game cases involving college sports—for the most part, video game cases have gone in favor of game makers; 2013 cases were just conservative (in nonpolitical sense) courts getting used to a novel form of art, despite SCt’s instruction—the problem isn’t transformativeness itself. And there are a lot of registrations.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Trademarks are governed by the Trademarks Act of 1999 and the Trademark Rules of 2017 in India which provides for registration and protection of Trademarks from fraudulent practice. 2] In recent times, many people are misusing the goodwill of others by “trademark squatting”. “The

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