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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

As a result, the rise of hypersensitivity to religion, religious texts, and religious symbols determines the jurisprudence around the utilisation of such marks under Indian trademark law, even if they are not strictly prohibited. 6] Section 9(2)(b) of the Indian Trademarks Act, 1999. [7] In Parul Food Specialities Pvt.

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How Lacoste Lost Its Crocodile Trademark

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Last week’s newsletter How to avoid the biggest brand management mistakes , highlighted that the role of our business name and signs like logos, taglines, characters, or sounds is to enable buyers to recognise that it’s us. In Lacoste’s case the registration gave it a broad monopoly over the concept of a crocodile design.

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The Hocus Pocus of Intellectual Property in Halloween Costumes

IPilogue

In general, any clothing, including costumes, is not protected by copyright laws. In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. In Pyrrha Design Inc. Outside of masks and jewellery, a 2017 U.S.

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Intellectual Property Rights in the Metaverse: Navigating the Virtual Frontier

IIPRD

The metaverse acted as a virtual boundary in this design for the future. Any literary work, text, music, videos, 3D paintings, images, software programs, avatar designs, art, or literature will get protection under copyright in the metaverse. that identifies a product or a service that is distinguishable by a common man.

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Federal Judge Holds Swiss Cheese Makers’ Claim to Gruyere Full of Holes

The IP Law Blog

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.” This protected designation was superseded by adoption of the Protected Designation of Origin (“PDO”) for GRUYÈRE in 2001.

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Bob Cumbow: "The Most Important Trademark Fact You Probably Don’t Know"

The TTABlog

Tam (2017), holding a portion of the nation’s statutory trademark law unconstitutional, Justice Alito wrote: “It is unlikely that more than a tiny fraction of the public has any idea what federal registration of a trademark means.” It certainly is not the way you “get” a trademark.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

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Lokesh, highlighting its history, argues that honest concurrent use is a principle of trademark law and is not limited to a provision. The Defendant on the other hand relied on the exception of the lack of novelty of the Plaintiff’s design and argued that there are many designs similar to the Plaintiff’s design.

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