Selvam & Selvam Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

The Hon’ble Supreme Court, on March 23, 2020 rendered a laudable order by taking suo motu cognizance of the COVID situation in India and ordered for suspension of deadlines. In case oppositions are received on or before May 30, 2022 – These registration certificates shall stand suspended until the opposition proceeding is decided.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 11, 2022

After the brand is registered, the user then registers various intellectual properties including trademarks, copyrights and patents, The form does ask if the property is registered or not and, if it is, requires that the user provide the registration number and location. The system itself has not been very broadly advertised.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

Generic terms are incapable of functioning as registrable trademarks denoting source, and are not registrable on the Supplemental Register or on the Principal Register after having acquired secondary meaning. Xerox ran an advertising campaign “You can’t Xerox a Xerox on a Xerox.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

At the time, these devices were sold through firesticksloaded.com and firesticksloaded.biz, and Freemon was listed as the registrant for the latter domain. It first appeared online in 2020 and offers access to 11,000 live channels, as well as on-demand access to over 27,000 movies and 9,000 TV series.

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43(B)log

MARCH 13, 2023

In March 2020 (I was going to say mid-March, but I recognize there’s a question about how long March 2020 actually was), he began marketing facemasks, including masks he described as “N95” and “Class N95.” Beginning in April 2020, customers began complaining about not receiving orders. Romero operated a drop-shipping business.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Autocontrol and Asociación Española de Anunciantes (Spanish Advertisers’ Association or AEA) agree on the ethical standards that should be applied to advertising by influencers from January 1, 2021. Banksy Case: registration of a trademark in bad faith and the price of anonymity. There will be a sequel!

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works must be illegally copied and stored in order to be streamed on a 24/7 channel,” the lawsuit reads. Johnson is also said to be the registrant of myaatv.com at 23.237.94.34 — the same IP address used by qsplaylist.com.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Copyright infringement – Copyright subsists in the Lidl logo and this was copied by Tesco in creating their Clubcard Price(s) signs. As part of this scheme, in September 2020, Tesco introduced the Clubcard Prices promotion: Tesco Clubcard holders were given discounts at the point of sale on certain products.

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azrights

MARCH 15, 2021

A distinctive asset such as the Nike Swoosh would have been capable of registration as a trademark as soon as the design was created. Securing legal protection gives you scope to build associations to your brand name without fear of competitor copying.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 10, 2021

In July 2020, the CAFC remanded to the TTAB the Board's decision that found the proposed mark COOKINPELLETS.COM to be generic for "Processed wood fuel in the nature of pellets for use in barbecue grills," and alternatively merely descriptive of those goods. 2020 USPQ2d 10729 (2020). TTABlogged here ]. Booking.com B.V.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ltd [2022] EWHC 1895 (Ch) (July 2022) In our last volume , we reported on Samsung being held directly liable as a platform for copied watch faces for Samsung smartwatches. In 2013, Cadbury’s registration for Pantone 2685C was held invalid because its description rendered it void for lack of certainty.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Keep in mind the generators are trained on existing material, including things that are protected by copyright and trademark law and registration and patents. Well, they’re right, I can apply, but registration surely won’t be granted. That doesn’t mean you’re in the clear for ownership and registration, however.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our hard-working students and community members published more than twice as many articles than in 2020 and the most articles in a calendar year since 2011. Like most countries, Canada bars the registration of “clearly descriptive” trademarks to prevent applicants from monopolizing words that merely describe the goods or services at hand.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

The plaintiff has registered its “Social” trademark and states to have invested considerably in its advertisement from 2001-2023. First, it argued that the plaintiff concealed material information that the registration of its mark was removed for non renewal in 2010 and was renewed only in 2019.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2020, here. As reported here in the Africa IP Highlights 2020, the High Court had found Zain Nigeria liable for infringement of the plaintiff’s copyright in a quiz program it designed titled “University Challenge”, and ordered significant damages of N703,000,000 ($1,843,934 approximately).

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IP Whiteboard

AUGUST 30, 2020

Left: Chris Black’s Jarrangini (buffalo), 2018 © Chris Black/Copyright Agency, 2020. From some general Google searching, it seems common for people to download pictures of works they like and bring them to their tattooist to copy. This leads to a number of questions: Is it copyright infringement to copy a work and use it as a tattoo?

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

However, in order to have legal proof of ownership, it is always advisable to register for copyright registration. For example, in 2020, @karmanverdi – a Russian Musical Artist – created a novel approach to take photos in Lockdown and titled the series “There are so many ghosts at my site.” Trademarks.

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The IPKat

JUNE 23, 2022

The High Court revoked four EASYOFFICE registrations owned by easyGroup for non-use and held that the Defendant’s use of EASYOFFICE was not an infringement of those registrations anyway owing to, amongst other things, the availability of an honest concurrent use defence. Those watch faces bore Swatch’s trade marks.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Meanwhile, there was a case where the Delhi High Court struck down Section 24(5) of the Plant Varieties Act which which allowed the registrar to issue interim directions against third-party abuse during the plant variety registration process. The Supreme Court later stayed this case, however. see also Sourav Ganguly vs Tata Tea ).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

16, 2024) WCT offers a mobile-fitness app called “Bike+” and owns a trademark registration for that name. WCT’s principal testified that he continued developing a new version of the Bike+ app from 2017 until 2020, writing “over 2.4 After an inquiry, Apple confirmed in December 2020 that the bug was fixed. World Champ Tech LLC v.

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The TTABlog

MAY 8, 2023

Unsurprisingly, the Board dismissed Professor Rebecca Curtin's opposition to registration of the mark RAPUNZEL for dolls and toy figures, finding that Curtin, as a mere consumer of fairytale-themed products, failed to prove her entitlement to a statutory cause of action. 3d 1370, 2020 USPQ2d 10837 at *3 (Fed. 2020), cert.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 18, 2021

were valid and infringed, but the latter wasn’t counterfeited; SMRI’s dilution victory was vacated, but not its victories on deceptive trade practices, ACPA, false advertising, and unfair competition. The Composite Design Mark registration specifically acknowledged that it made “no claim. the public about the STURGIS Registrations.”

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2024

Background On 8 September 2015, BIW Invest AG (‘BIW’) applied for registration of EU trade mark no. In 2020, New Yorker Marketing & Media International GmbH (‘New Yorker’) filed invalidity applications against BIW’s trade marks, alleging that they lacked distinctiveness and were descriptive at the filing date ( Art.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A single color mark on a product design is registrable only upon a showing of acquired distinctiveness. 2020 USPQ2d at 10869. (1) Dimarzio claimed use of the proposed mark since 1979, with millions of consumers observing its guitar pickups in videos, advertisements, and musical performances. Wal-Mart (citing Qualitex ).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

It can also mean as the proxy or substitute holder of rights here on earth because no spiritual being will receive a copyright certificate, trademark registrations, or letters patent. 75, 79 (2020). Aseri (2020) at 80]. courts have denied registration to religious marks as being offensive to other believers or to non-believers.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 6, 2023

the Apex Court held that one of the inherent aspects of the right to privacy as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution is the right to prevent others from using the person’s name or likeness without his consent for advertising or non-advertising purposes. State of T.N., 2007, I, no. 125, pourvoi no. Entertainment Pvt.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

23, 2022) Healthvana operates a health app, Healthvana, and has a trademark (registration) for use in connection with software and software as a service. In March 2020, Healthvana objected, and Telebrands’ counsel indicated that it would rebrand as “Handvana.” “By Healthvana, Inc. Telebrands Corp., 2022 WL 562265, No. Surprised?

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

You can also see it in Tam & Brunetti—little interest in how TM works, the relationship b/t registration and enforcement, even though that’s central to the Lanham Act. Sears/Compco said there was a right to copy things in the public domain; how did that go away? Do you still point out that Congress endorsed Rogers in 2020?

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I previously wrote about this lawsuit three years ago when musician Eddy Grant first sued Trump over the unauthorized use of his 1983 hit “ Electric Avenue ” in a 2020 campaign video created by a third party, which was then posted by the former president on his personal Twitter account. I don’t know.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Courts don’t do really prong one beyond assessing access (not independently assessing copying). Bedi and Reibstein 2020 found marginal evidence of tarnishment in a single-impression, centrally processed experience (they’re paying attention); stronger tarnishment with multi impression, peripheral processing (they’re not paying attention).

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