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Your domain name, your identity: the risks of not protecting it for your brand image

Garrigues Blog

They allow companies to promote their brand image and connect with the community around them. When we start any business, one of the first things to choose is the name that will identify you in the market and, if the homework is done, it will be registered as a trademark (see a related post here ).

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Protecting Digital Identities: Trademarks, Domain Names, and the Menace of Cyber-Squatting

IP and Legal Filings

Spartan Online [5] , the Calcutta High Court had focused on the need for the domain names to be distinguishable from others for the purpose of establishing separate brand identity. After examining the facts, the court held that the owner of trademark had the exclusive right to register the trademark as a domain name under the trademark law.

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Getting your Trademark Registration in Bahrain

IP and Legal Filings

As a part of our comprehensive service, we conduct searches for the official trademark registry and also on the internet to determine whether or not the potential trademark is identical or confusingly similar to other registered trademarks. This being an important part makes the brand owner avoid any further litigation.

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Battle of the Firms – The Irony of IP Law Firms Being Sued for Trademark Infringement

SpicyIP

Battle of the Firms – The Irony of IP Law Firms Being Sued for Trademark Infringement Niyati Prabhu It is well known that companies across the world take their brands seriously and deploy law firms in order to safeguard their intellectual properties, be it their names, slogans, brands, taglines, marketing tools and (even phone numbers ).

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Departing Employees Rename Their Former Employers’ Facebook Account. That May Be a Problem–La Baguette v. Tito & Tita

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The analogous non-digital conduct would be to take a photograph of a crowd inside La Baguette with the caption “La Baguette, Christmas party 2016,” erase “La Baguette,” write-in “Tito & Tita,” and keep the photograph on the wall where customers can see it. Trademark Owner Sues Over Alleged Twittersquatting–Coventry First, LLC v.

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Short Musings on Tensions between Trademark Law and the Luxury Fashion Market

JIPEL Copyright Blog

While these cases exemplify the tension between different brands and their trademarks, they also allude to the growing misalignment between the luxury fashion industry and trademark law. Brands like Tide, Sharpie, and Nintendo sell at a premium because customers trust that they’re getting high quality products.

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

Copyright Ownership of Movies and Films in Canada: Who’s on First? Introducing the College of Patent Agents & Trademark Agents. Case law has often overlapped overbreadth with other grounds of invalidity such as obviousness, anticipation, and inutility. . of the Patent Act on June 24, 2016. Trademark Law.

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