The TTABlog

JULY 6, 2021

Belmora ) had the TTAB tackled this issue, and here it reached the same outcome: cancellation of two registrations on the ground that Registrant Meenaxi used its registered marks THUMS UP and LIMCA to misrepresent the source of its soft drink products. Section 14(3) cases are as rare as a White Sox fan in Boston. 2021 U.S.P.Q.2d

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The TTABlog

JULY 29, 2024

The Board denied a petiton for cancellation of a registration for the mark shown below, for various clothing items, rejecting Petitioner Paradise Holdings' likelihood of confusion claim because Paradise failed to prove priority. 1057(e), a registration may be amended “for good cause.” Paradise Holdings, Inc.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2024

IndiGo has also secured registration for the word mark 6E Link under multiple classes in 2015. However, the mark has not yet been advertised in the Trademark Journal, meaning no one can oppose its registration as yet. Notably, 6E has become a dominant feature and exclusive to the Indigos brand and its associated services.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

WIPO administers the WIPO-administered Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs. In 2015, the US linked its design patent system with Hague — this gives U.S. by Dennis Crouch. designers easier access to global design rights; and non-U.S. applicants easier access to the U.S.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 11, 2025

Less than one month after oral argument, the Board sustained this opposition to registration of DON'T MESS WITH TEX-MEX for restaurant service, finding confusion likely with the registered mark DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS for paper food containers, paper bags, and cups. 91194974, 2015 WL 1646447, at *13 (TTAB 2015). GFA Brands, Inc.,

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Read on to learn about: The difference between patents and industrial designs Recent industrial designs registration trends How you can swiftly search for industrial designs with Corsearch What are industrial designs? These and other questions are relevant in assessing registrability potential for patents. respectively. in 2017, 14.6%

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 31, 2021

An expungement proceeding allows for cancellation, in whole or in part, of a trademark registration between three and ten years old if the mark has never been used in commerce with some or all of the registered goods and/or services. 2015: [link]. For the latest developments o­n trademark scammers, check, Is This a Trademark Scam?®.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A quick search on the USPTO’s trademark database shows that Apple first filed the trademark registration for SMART KEYBOARD back in December 2015 as an iPad Pro accessory. The successful registrations include Apple’s own marks like SMART COVER, SMART CASE, SMART CONNECTOR, and SMART FOLIO. Future implications.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Beginning with what YouTube described as fraudulent behavior by one of the plaintiffs through to demands to identify every single user on the platform that had received a takedown notice since 2015, the case has certainly lived up to the billing. Serious Copyright Registration Problems.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 25, 2024

Introduction Section 3 of the Real Estate Regulation and Development Act, 2016 provides for prior registration of projects under the Real Estate Regulatory Authority that are undergoing completion as of the commencement of the Act and have not been granted a completion certificate by their respective local authorities.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2022

58/2015-2020 dated February 12, 2021, of DGFT an amendment was made relating to IEC scrapping the lifetime validity to an annual one. PROCEDURE OF REGISTRATION. BENEFIT OF REGISTRATION: Expansion of business. based on their IEC registration. RCMC REGISTRATION AND WHEN REQUIRED. VALIDITY PERIOD OF IEC.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 22, 2024

Bertini petitioned to cancel a registration for the mark APPLE for a host of entertainment and other services in class 41, claiming that Apple Inc. Bertini contended that the nonuse occurred "during a period of at least three years and six months after the date of the SOU, namely during November 11, 2011 - May 31, 2015." Welch 2024.

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 1, 2025

Webinar 1 - Engineering, physics and digital innovations (22 January 2025, 16:00 to 17:30 CET) Webinar 2 - Chemistry, Pharma and Life Sciences (11 February 2015, 16:00 to 17:30 CET) You can read more details about topics and speakers here. The registration form is available here.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

1] In 2006, the International Trademark Association, INTA, officially recognized the importance of tactile marks by adopting a resolution in support of the recognition and registration of these marks. Another important criterion for trademark registration is non-functionality. PDF) registration of non-traditional trademarks.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In June 2015, Apple began using the mark APPLE MUSIC for its streaming services and filed a trademark application seeking to register the mark for production and distribution of sound recordings and arranging, organizing, conducting, and presenting live musical performances.

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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.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2023

86/659,444 for APPLE MUSIC, which the company has been using since 2015, when it launched its music streaming service. Unaware that he did not have a federal registration, Bertini filed an opposition against Apple, Inc.’s Apple filed Trademark Application No.

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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! When Congress passed the CARES Act in late March, it featured provisions allowing the USPTO to extend some deadlines for applicants and registrants for a few months.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 19, 2021

26, 2021) Zamfir is a researcher in the field of cryptoeconomics and distributed systems; he and Vitalik Buterin are allegedly the two lead researchers of the proof-of-stake blockchain protocols known as Casper (name adopted around 2015). Thus, to prevail, Zamfir would need to rebut the presumptions created by the registration, and he didn’t.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Furthermore, since Alexander did not file her registration timely, she is not eligible to be awarded attorneys’ fees. In March 2015, a jury awarded the estate of Marvin Gay $7.4 That board has a maximum total damages of $30,000. Blurred Tattoo Lines. It was easily the biggest copyright news story of the year.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

[Image Sources : Shutterstock] Icann Rules According to the ICANN rules, the domain name registrant is required to comply with all the standards, requirements, procedures and practices when entering into a Domain Name Registration Agreement with the Domain Name Registrar. CV 10-03738 AB, 2015 WL 5311085 (C.D. GoDaddy.com, Inc.

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KMK Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2017

2015-1109 (Fed. Those efforts were uniformly unsuccessful despite some weakly-creative arguments that the word, “fuct,” was not actually vulgar, and even if it was, Section 2(a) did not bar registration of “vulgar” marks. In re Brunetti , Appeal No. December 15, 2017).

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Trademark Office issued the following 161 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in September 2021 based on applications filed by Indiana trademark attorneys: Reg. RIFT WOOD COMPANY EXPERIENCE THE DIVIDE EST. 2015. SUCCESS AT WORK COACH. TRUCKING FROM SCRATCH. COASTAL MIX. HEADEUS MAXIMUM. STARCORR SHEETS.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I covered the recommendations of the Report which includes reforming Section 3(p) of the Patents Act to incentivize TK-based innovation, creating a proper documentation mechanism to prevent misappropriation of TK, and registration of traditional knowledge as GIs. The Ministry had claimed that 14.2 Other News from Around the World.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The company had been using the name for several years in the payday loan business, and in 2012 expanded into pawn shops and then filed for registration for that usage in 2013. The USPTO then granted the registrations associated with the new uses.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Board has now answered that question in the affirmative, granting a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark DANTANNA'S for "steak and seafood restaurant" on the ground of fraud. Neither he nor Great Concepts ever notified the USPTO about the false statement, though they were aware of same since 2015.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 26, 2023

i] Cases and registrations indicate that registrability or successful enforcement of rights can happen only if such marks have acquired distinctiveness through use or where numerals are used as a fanciful device or when the numeral is used in a descriptive sense and not as a trademark.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Shyam Vithalrao Devkatta (2015), the Supreme Court held that a film title, such as “Desi Boys,” cannot be subject to copyright infringement (paras 8-11). The viability of title registrations with societies and guilds has also been a major aspect of discussion for film title registrations. In Krishika Lulla v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Supreme Court held today that lack of knowledge of either fact or law can excuse inaccuracies in a copyright registration under Section 411(b)’s safe harbor provision of the Copyright Act. Later, in February 2011, Unicolors filed a single application seeking copyright registration for thirty-one designs published at different times.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

Lokesh Vyas dwells on these questions in his post in the aftermath of SRAIs registration! He argued that he had obtained proper business licenses and trademark registrations and that there were significant differences in their product logos. Is a Script a Dramatic or a Literary work? Nipun Gupta & Anr. Pratibha Prop.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Court was not satisfied that any of this evidence confirmed that Pugliese was a US citizen in April 2015, when photos were created. The Court spent more time analysing the admissibility of the Copyright Certificate of Registration as evidence of Pugliese’s citizenship.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Background In 2015, an individual person filed for registration of German word mark GTA. However, simply changing one letter of a short mark may not be a free pass, as a recent decision of the German Patent Court involving the trade marks GTI and GTA shows.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 2, 2025

The Court held that the Single judge failed to appreciate that the appellant has been using the mark since 2015 and nor did the respondent argue that irreparable harm will be caused if the injunction is not granted. The Court held the marks to be deceptively similar and cancelled the registration of the impugned marks.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Whirlpool was able to claim rights over its trademark in this country, even though it didn’t have a physical presence here and did not have any registration at that time. 3d 983 (2015). 3d 983 (2015). [3] It underlined brand recognition as borderless in the modern age. [6] 47 of 1999. Apple Inc. v Samsung Electronics Co.,

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IP Whiteboard

JULY 8, 2020

The Supreme Court provided a detailed analysis on what makes a trade mark eligible for registration. Prime among the conditions for registration, the mark must be one “by which the goods of the applicant may be distinguished from the goods of others.” com” are capable of registration. 2] (2015) 237 FCR 388.

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BYU Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bell claims copyright in the Book but also separately in the WIN Passage itself, and included copyright registrations for both as exhibits to his Complaint. The Complaint implies that Poltrock made the post in his capacity as an MPS employee, and screenshots of the posts are included with the Complaint as exhibits.

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