SpicyIP

MARCH 20, 2023

According to Duff and Phelps, and CII’s joint report in 2019 on IP-backed financing, the proportion of tangible assets in the market value of Standard and Poor’s 500 firms has declined from over 80 percent to under 20 percent in the past three decades, thus signifying the rising contribution of intangible assets.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 26, 2023

2] However, the quintessential reason for such distinction is due to a slightly elevated standard for the registration of non-traditional marks. Image Source : Shutterstock] The Trademarks Act, 1999 (‘Act’) refers exclusively to the registrability of ‘combination of colours’. [3] In this also falls the case of colour marks.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 16, 2022

At the 2019 International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) conference, representatives from Western Governors University (WGU) discussed how they had removed over 18,000 URLs from the web. In addition to the court costs and legal fees, Berkovitz says that he received an expedited registration from the U.S. Copyright Office.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Reasoning that the form of a copyright registration does not really matter, the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s ruling that real estate photography provider VHT was entitled to statutory damages for 2,700 photos infringed by Zillow even though VHT had registered all of the works at issue as part of a single database.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 17, 2022

All the above was probably at the basis of an attempt, on the side of luggage manufacturer Samsonite, to obtain a 3D EU trade mark (EUTM) registration for the shape of the tablet case pictured below. In 2019, Samsonite indeed attempted to register the shape of an iPad/tablet case as an EUTM.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Supreme Court held 6-3 that the Ninth Circuit erred in invalidating a copyright registration for failure to comply with the Copyright Office’s “single unit of publication” regulation, where the copyright owner had knowledge of the facts but arguably misunderstood the legal standard. Legal Background: Registration. Unicolors, Inc.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 8, 2020

23, 2019). For details on how to check if your trademark registration is eligible for renewal filing now, see my video here. Post Registration Fees. New fee for deleting goods, services, and/or classes from a registration after submitting a Section 8 or 71 declaration but before the declaration is accepted. Current Fee.

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The IPKat

JULY 14, 2021

The judgment (correctly) reverses the earlier, contrary decision of the EUIPO First Board of Appeal ( 2292/2019-1 ). one of Rouge G de Guerlain : Today, also the General Court did agree in its judgment in T-488/20 Guerlain [currently only available in French].

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 28, 2023

Registrations Closed to Stop Spam The last sentence is in the past tense, as user registrations were effectively disabled four years ago. The last ‘new’ user was added to the torrent site on May 22, 2019, and, after that, there were no signs that registrations would reopen anytime soon.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

The new copyright directive, which was passed in 2019, requires web hosts and other online service providers to prevent infringing works from being reuploaded to them. Poland, as well as others in the EU, felt that this would lead to the installation of upload filters that would harm legitimate content.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 17, 2024

The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark VIPER SPORTS for "“batting gloves; baseball batting gloves," finding confusion likely with the common law mark VIPER for batting gloves. The only real issues were priority and the strength of the VIPER mark. Viper Bats Inc. Smash It Sports Inc. Cancellation No.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) denied registration of several US trademark applications for the mark F**K, even though the applicant had overcome a prohibition on the registration of “immoral or scandalous” trademarks as a violation of the First Amendment in the Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Iancu v.

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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. in 2019, 19.3%

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The IPKat

JULY 28, 2022

A useful timeline of events was provided by Darren Meale in his guestpost concerning last year’s Court of Appeal decision: July 2017: High Court refuses a pre-trial reference to the CJEU as premature [2017] EWHC 1769 (see Retromark Volume II ) February 2018: High Court’s 358 paragraph judgment finding infringement subject to referral questions [2018] (..)

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

On February 14, 2022, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued a notice regarding “clout-chasing” trademark applications or registrations (the “Notice”). The Notice stated that CNIPA, on an ex officio basis, had refused or invalidated over 400 applications related to “???”

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The case concerned the registration of 'Prosecco' as a GI in Singapore. This Kat was interested to see a court finally address this argument Singapore has offered protection for GIs since 1999, but it only adopted a registration-based system in the last decade with the Geographical Indications Act 2014 ('GIA').

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The strong ‘additional meanings’, or the acquired distinctiveness, take the sign out of the shadows of being a descriptive term and make it eligible for trade mark registration. Earlier this month, a case ruled by Beijing Higher People’s Court demonstrated the respective ways-out.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In 2019, it was due to road work on my street and both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. However, it lapsed into the public domain in 1953 after the owners failed to renew their copyright registration, which was required at the time. However, for the past few years, the haunt has been closed.

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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. These efforts fell apart in late 2019, on information and belief, due to Mr.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 17, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that Bacardi's challenge to the USPTO's renewal of the registration for that mark may be heard in the federal courts. In 2006, Cubaexport was barred from paying the renewal fee for the HAVANA CLUB registration due to a trade embargo. 9206833, 2019 WL 646461, at *4 (T.T.A.B.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

At least five of those lawsuits were dismissed by March 2019 due to the lack of a proper copyright registration. In 2019, it was estimated to have made $1.8 This included actor Alfonso Ribeiro and the rapper 2 Milly among others. None of this has stopped Fortnite from becoming both a gaming juggernaut and a cultural phenomenon.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Banksy's Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge A while ago The IPKat reported [ here and here ] on a string of cancellations of elusive artist Banksy ’s EU trade mark (EUTM) registrations relating to some of their best-known artworks. The reason? Let’s see how the Board reasoned. (Ir)relevance

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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. 2019: [link]. For the latest developments o­n trademark scammers, check, Is This a Trademark Scam?®.

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The IPKat

JULY 19, 2024

Here's what Kimberley writes: BASMATI trade mark refused registration in New Zealand by Kimberley Evans Basmati rice is a well-known and well-loved food around the world. The corresponding NZ application was not opposed and has achieved registration.)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Stern registered for a Peloton account on August 25, 2019, and again on November 29, 2019, and as part of that registration process, was required to affirmatively agree to Peloton’s Terms of Service regardless of whether he registered on the website or mobile application; and (4) when Mr. Stern created his Peloton account in 2019, the registration (..)

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We’re very happy to bring our readers a guest post that uses a dataset of more than 300,000 trademark examination reports from the year 2019, as the basis for analysing the trademark registry’s examination process. As per the Dynamic Trade Marks Utilities , 334,633 applications filed in the year 2019 reached the examination stage.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2021

By 7 June this year, individual Member States should have also completed their own national processes for the transposition of the Digital Single Market Directive 2019/790. To celebrate the publication of Copyright in the Digital Single Market. 2), European Commission Marko Ileši?

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Other lawsuits have featured artists including 2 Milly, Alfonso Riberio and the “Orange Shirt Kid” However, many of those lawsuits were dropped in 2019 due to a lack of copyright registration. 2: YouTube Holds Licenses For Copyright Lawsuit Plaintiff’s “Entire Back Catalog”.

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The IPKat

MAY 16, 2022

The opposition was based on several earlier marks, including an Italian figurative mark with a word element “ZARA”, registered in Class 30, and an international registration for “LE DELIZIE ZARA”, registered in Classes 29 and 30. From the BoA decision (R 2040/2019-4, para. Inditex appealed to the General Court ( T-467/20 ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker. .”

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This registration had a tumultuous road on route to registration: historical disputes, conflicts with trade marks, a legal reform and two separate GI applications. The application for registration of “Couteau Laguiole” asserts that the Laguiole cutlery industry was revived by bringing cutlers from Thiers.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 28, 2024

trademark registrations and have been involved in dozens of disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). trademark registrations. 9] According to the USPTO’s materials, this is due, in part, to a historically low rate of post-registration filings. [10] EMP&A’s clients have received over 4,000 U.S.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 8, 2024

The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark TEEN EARTH for "entertainment in the nature of beauty pageants" on the ground of abandonment. Respondent Stafford is the assignee of the subject registration, which was obtained by former U.S. franchisees of Carousel. Coach Builders , 123 USPQ2d at 1192.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

Background On 27th September 2019, European Flipper / Pinball Factory GmbH applied to register the following logo as an EU trade mark: The application covered the following goods and services and was published for opposition on 3rd October 2019: Class 11: Camping stoves. Its EUTM Registration No.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On November 28, 2019, Full Black Colour applied to cancel Banksy’s trademark under the European Union Trademark Regulation ( EUTMR ). A trademark holder must make “genuine use” of a registration by using it to acquire market share in relation to distinguishable goods or services. street artist Banksy.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In 2019, the Ninth Circuit had previously found mostly in Zillow’s favor as to an earlier trial and had reversed and remanded the case back for further proceedings. Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Court v. VHT did apply for registration prior to filing the lawsuit.) Zillow Group, Inc.,

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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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