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Announcing the 3rd Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law

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Shamnad Basheer’s 46th birth anniversary today, we at SpicyIP are proud to announce the third edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. We’d started this competition in 2020 to celebrate his memory and his legacy of outstanding scholarship. Submission Guidelines. Shubha Ghosh.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

Most significantly, “the development of blockchain technology” has been accepted as a legal business activity by the Indonesian standard industrial business categorization code, which was published in 2020. 5 of 2020, dated November 16, 2020, regarding ESP in the Private Sector, as amended by MOCI Regulation No.

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Scent As A Signature: Examining the Role Of Smell In Trademark Recognition

IP and Legal Filings

The objective of these requirements is to guarantee the legitimacy of graphical representations of smell trademarks. CHALLENGES Olfactory markings have certain particular challenges under Indian trademark law. New Challenge on Intellectual Property: Smell Trademark. Atlantis Press. Odintsov, S., Trubina, M.

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Can Common Terms Be Trademarked?

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We know that brands try to make their trademarks as unique and distinctive as possible to attain the highest level of protection under the Trademark Law. ’ Common or generic terms are usually not protected under trademark law. ’ How are then these common words registered as a trademark?

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Can Braille Be Registered As a Trademark?

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19] Being able to distinguish one’s trademark falls at the centre of the trademark law, as otherwise, it is liable to be rejected under Section 9(1) of the Act. 3] A Draft of Manual of Trademark Practice & Procedure, 3.2.4. [4] 5] Trademark Act, 1999, §2, No. 2] See, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame v.

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Your Intellectual Property Attorney Can be Located in a Different State

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For most intellectual property questions, your attorney can be located anywhere in the United States. This is because most of the relevant intellectual property laws involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are federal laws, which apply uniformly throughout the United States.

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Bombay High Court Rules that Copyright Registration of a Label is not Compulsory

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It was in October 2020 when SSPL came to know about NTC’s use of a similar label and trade dress for its set of soya bean edible oil products. On the other hand, the Trademark Law allows two or more registered owners or concurrent users of similar marks. In May 2007, the label mark ‘SOYA DROP’ was registered.