IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

Are they protectable by design patents? In this post we will analyze the availability of design patents for digital commodities and how it compares with other Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent. Overview of current legislation in China.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

Are they protectable by design patents? In this post we will analyze the availability of design patents for digital commodities and how it compares with other Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent. Overview of current legislation in China.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 19, 2021

Their agreements terminated in late 2019. According to CasperLabs, Zamfir was well-aware of its intent to use the Casper name as early as June 2019. It filed an application to register CASPER as a trademark in connection with blockchain technology; the registration issued in November 2020.

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Intepat

MAY 28, 2024

This success is largely attributed to Apple’s effective trademarking of various designs and sounds related to its products and services. Notably, Apple trademarked its store design in the United States in 2011. has invested heavily in marketing and brand promotion, making its trademark well-known to consumers.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

China has taken a further step towards aligning its regulations with the international protection system for designs. On June 1, 2021, the most recent reform of the country’s Patent Act entered into force, which includes significant changes to how industrial designs are regulated. Key reforms.

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The stories feature on Instagram is the same as that of its rival and competitor in the market, Snapchat.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Copyright © Hornit, 2019. Or complex mounted structures designed to be used within garages. He described how this has allowed him to work with brand protection consultancy, SnapDragon to carry out searches of digital markets for counterfeit versions of the CLUG. Find out how to protect your IP using our guidance pages.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2022

In November 2019, the US federal government shut down IPTV services operated by Bill Omar Carrasquillo, aka ‘Omi in a Hellcat’ IRS and FBI agents seized “at least” $5.2m Trademark Registration No. from his bank accounts along with a fleet of supercars. ’ The RELOADED® trademark was registered on June 8, 2021.”

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The design of Hershey’s cone-shaped small chocolate “Kisses” has been a registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) since 1996. Hershey alleges in their complaint that Cookie Department released packaging and marketing materials for cookie products with the same conical shape.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unveiling Merchant Privileges in the Shadows of Craftsmanship Developing nations like India require financial and technical support to market their products internationally and attain the sustainability of GI. Additional analysis has revealed that the registration status varies greatly.

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The IPKat

MARCH 10, 2022

The IPKat's favourite Le Pliage When you have a handbag design bestseller with over 54 million copies sold around the world since its creation in 1993, the question concerning the IP rights vesting in it is not just an academic one. Longchamp owns EUTM registrations for the shape of Le Pliage (Nos 013928528 and 014461958 ).

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker. .” per sticker set.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 23, 2022

Merrillville, Indiana – Plaintiff, NuStar Enterprises LLC (“NuStar”), is a clothing and apparel company that markets and sells clothing and apparel and related accessories. NuStar was granted a registration for its mark RELOADED® under Registration No. These efforts fell apart in late 2019. 1114 , N.J. Stat § 56:3-13.16

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Yet, the 2 nd Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office held otherwise in a recent decision ( Case R32/2022-2 ) that refused registration of the Saddle shape in relation to “ Bags, handbags, pouches (leather goods), travel kits (leather goods), toiletry and make-up cases (empty) ”.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In an exhaustive and exhausting decision, the Board sustained an opposition to registration of the mark HME in the stylized from shown below, for various types of pipes and other building products, finding confusion likely with opposer's mark KME for overlapping goods. KME Germany GmbH v. Zhejiang Hailiang Co.,

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. where original jewellery designs are automatically protected under copyright law as sculptural or pictorial works.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 11, 2023

2] This new set of marks is often referred to as non-traditional trademarks , and the qualification for their registration, as opposed to a traditional mark, is substantially higher. [3] I do this by demonstrating the statutory criteria for trademark registration and then applying the set criteria to check the registrability of braille.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 4, 2022

Co-existence agreements are a way to allow potentially confusing trademarks to exist simultaneously in the market without any action of trademark infringement. How the Ohio State University secured registration. Following these amendments, the Ohio State University secured registration of the “THE” mark.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts. The team has appealed the decision , so watch this space.)

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The IPKat

APRIL 1, 2024

The examiner of the EUIPO held that it was not an abstract colour mark but a figurative mark and refused registration for lack of distinctiveness ( Art. The history of the registration has been covered here. This may include surveys or market studies and statements from professional bodies or the specialised public. 7(3) CTMR ).

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 9, 2021

Hammond, Indiana – Monster Energy Company (“Monster”), the Plaintiff, claims to be a nationwide leader in marketing and selling ready-to-drink beverages. billion dollars promoting and marketing the MONSTER brand including the Claw Icon and the Monster Trade Dress. Since 2002, Monster asserts it has spent over $8.5

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In an otherwise straightforward Section 2(d) analysis, the Board ruled that confusion is likely between Respondent's registered marks MIRAGE BRANDS (standard form) and MIRAGE BRANDS & Design [BRANDS disclaimed], and Petitioner Mahender Sabhnani's previously used and registered mark ROYAL MIRAGE & Design , all for perfume.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, the registration could not be revoked due to non-use. In 2019, The Topps Company, Inc (the applicant) submitted evidence seeking to establish genuine use of the contested mark. In 2020, the Cancellation Division granted the application for revocation in respect of all the goods covered by the contested mark.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fashion designers and artists showcase their creative genius through conceptual fashion shows and apparel collections. As of 2019, the apparel market was valued at about 368 billion U.S Designs or patterns that are created to stitch or print into textiles are protected with the help of design acts in several countries.

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

False urgency is a marketing tactic that creates a false sense of scarcity to pressure consumers into making a purchase, often resulting in dark patterns, limited stock, and unexpected delivery. The DoCA had illustrated 10 practices as dark patterns. They are: 1.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). In 2019, the U.S. Deepbrain AI , Veed.io ).

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

No] Test Your TTAB Judge-Ability: Is "MDF IT & Design" Primarily Geographically Descriptive of Furniture? [No] No] "METRO LIVING & Design" Not Descriptive of Real Estate Brokerage Services, Says TTAB Reversing a 2(e)(2) Geographical Descriptiveness Refusal, TTAB Asks, Where The Heck Is WINDHOEK? [No] Welch 2019.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

billion photos were stolen daily in 2019. Copyright infringement of digital photos differs in important ways from infringement in the markets of music and movies. Even though it is not mandatory, copyright registration provides valuable legal protection. Based on statistics , 2.5

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

129 USPQ2d 1148, 1149-50 (TTAB 2019)." Its advertising expenditures of $1M were "modest" and its sales revenues and number of consumers were "not so impressive as to elevate Applicant's highly descriptive designation to the status of a distinctive mark" in the absence of market share and other contextual information.

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IIPRD

MARCH 4, 2024

This right can be related to music, a book, a logo, any art work, work related to science, designs of the industries. It creates an impact in the market, like at the time of collaboration or merger with foreign companies. Also, it is really important to renew the registration because there is a limit to registration.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Now, by November 2019, all involved nations hope to have a pact finalised and signed. By integrating 16 nations’ markets, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) aspires to make it simpler for each nation’s goods and services to be available throughout the region. By 2050, the predicted $0.5 Conclusion.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 14, 2022

In 2019, after spotting a perfume product in China’s market highly similar to its classic N°5 perfume, Chanel took a ‘notarization-throughout purchase’ online and located the alleged infringing product shown below on the right. The side-by-side comparison captures several common features.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Both EUTM registrations were granted. It reiterated that the Grand Board had to decide on the scope of opposition to the registration of a trade mark arising from Article 7(1)(c) EUTMR where a sign is a geographical name. In both (similar) cases, the Grand Board in the decisions R 1238/2019-G Iceland and R1613/2019-G, Iceland (fig.)

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2013, Cadbury’s registration for Pantone 2685C was held invalid because its description rendered it void for lack of certainty. An appeal in 2018 failed to dodge this finding by trying to argue that the registration was a series of marks (see Volume 5 ). On appeal, Meade J disagreed and upheld the registration.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 3, 2022

October 26, 2022 | Bird & Bird | "Webinar: The DSM Directive one year on (part II) Article 15: A power shift back to the publishers?" | online Article 15 of Directive 2019/790 builds on and follows a number of national initiatives aimed at remedying declining revenues in the press sector. The event will take in Brussels and online.

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