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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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

It’s a confusing question with no easy answer, but it’s an issue that puts the copyright registration of every website at risk. In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. The Registration Wrinkle. In the United States, a registration with the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

1: Ninth Circuit Affirms Validity of Unicolors’ Copyright Registration on Remand, But H&M Scores Big on Remittitur Calculations. The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The TTABlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

In the latest round of this 25-year-old saga, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of two registrations for the mark COHIBA (one mark in standard form, the other slightly stylized) for "cigars," on the ground of violation of Article 8 of the Pan American Convention. 1067(a) [Section 17(a) of the Lanham Act]." Dow Chem.Co.

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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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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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The IPKat

AUGUST 2, 2024

The dispute has its roots in 2015 when trade mark applications were filed by estranged members of the Club (represented by another member, Mr Nigel Jacobs), some of whom were founding members and who had subsequently formed a new club under the same name. The Court readily ruled in favour of the opponent on the relative grounds.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

On 2 February 2011, the company Heuver Banden Groothandel BV (the company) applied for registration of the Benelux word trade mark “ATHLETE” for Class 12. The Benelux priority was then claimed in the international registration before the WIPO, with extension of protection to the European Union. 207/2009. The applicant appealed.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

However, the group argues that MODS copied at least two of their exhibitions, Boundaries from 2017 and Crystal from 2015. However, MODS is alleging that the lawsuit is improper, first because teamLab has no copyright registration, but because they have not identified specific elements that can be protected by copyright in the lawsuit.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Those machines have been imported into the UK for distribution and sale since June 2013, and marketed using the acronym ICE and the following logo: Both the Claimant and the First Defendant have trade mark registrations in the United Kingdom.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 12, 2024

The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark MRS. COLORADO , finding that Respondent Abundance Productions had not used the mark in commerce in connection with "Entertainment in the nature of beauty pageants" on or before the filing date of the underlying application. Wandel Mach. Altoona Fam Inc.,

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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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Patently-O

OCTOBER 18, 2023

18, 2023) , the Federal Circuit addressed whether fraud in a declaration of incontestability justifies cancelling the underlying trademark registration. Their disagreement centers on the scope of “maintaining” a registration and policy concerns over deterring false statements. I’m sure they are lovely.

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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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43(B)log

APRIL 29, 2024

The court found aspects of the copyright/§1202 claims claim insufficiently specifically pled and granted leave to amend, including to add sufficient detail to establish that the works at issue were not US works and thus exempt from the pre-suit registration requirement. This was classic Dastar. As stated in Luxul Technology Inc. 3d 1156 (N.D.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Moreover, because the EUIPO does not examine the validity/enforceability of these security interests, the truth is that they are usually registered and published in the Official Journal of the EUIPO when the registration formalities are complied with, whether or not the national laws have been complied with. The plain and simple answer is no.

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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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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

the Court, with a 2-1 majority, found that the Board wrongly cancelled the registration of a trademark holder due to the filing of a fraudulent declaration by its former attorney to obtain incontestable status of the trademark “DANTANNA’S.” Section 14 allows for a petition to cancel registration of a mark that was “obtained fraudulently.”

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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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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2024

Moreover, because the EUIPO does not examine the validity/enforceability of these security interests, the truth is that they are usually registered and published in the Official Journal of the EUIPO when the registration formalities are complied with, whether or not the national laws have been complied with. The plain and simple answer is no.

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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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

the Court, with a 2-1 majority, found that the Board wrongly cancelled the registration of a trademark holder due to the filing of a fraudulent declaration by its former attorney to obtain incontestable status of the trademark “DANTANNA’S.” Chutter, Inc. , ” (emphasis in original). ” (emphasis in original).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Mark eventually registered in 2003 (the Registration). Just Maradona not attracting any attention at Napoli In 2021, following Maradona's untimely passing the previous year, Sattvica SA, an Argentinean company established by the footballer's former IP lawyer, applied for the Registration to be transferred to it (the Application).

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The TTABlog

JUNE 4, 2024

The Board denied Applicant Zarco Hotels' FRCP 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss this opposition to registration of the mark HOLLYWOOD HOTEL for hotel and restaurant services, ruling that claim preclusion, based on an earlier opposition, did not apply. Sulpasso , 115 USPQ2d 1409, 1410 n.5 The Board disagreed.

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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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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. In 2015, Chutter, Inc. Section 14 of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §

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The IPKat

JANUARY 13, 2023

The registrability of slogans as trade marks was examined not too long ago by the First Board of Appeal the EUIPO. By its decision in Case R 664/2022-1 the Board of Appeal refused the application for the registration of the slogan “TAKE FIVE” (reported by the IPKat here ). 3 Directive (EU) 2015/2436 and which is specular to art.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Deemed a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT), applicant was banned from doing business in the United States from 2008 to 2015. In May 2015, applicant was removed from the SDNT list. In October 2015 it filed an application to register its EUCALIN mark. Who Owned the Mark?:

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Board noted that the parties ignored conflict-of-laws principles, and so it "deemed their arguments as manifesting their assent that we may interpret the 2015 Contract as if it were governed by United States contract law principles."

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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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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Opposition to registration of PAYFORME for various financial transaction services. Cohen) [Opposition to registration of THE CAVALIER RESCUE for "Animal rescue services, namely, arranging for the adoption of rescued animals." PayNearMe, Inc. Substring, LLC , Opposition No. 91277497 (January 18, 2024) [not precedential] (By the Board).

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