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The report issued on August 11, 2021 (OIG-21-033-A) is entitled USPTO Should Improve Controls over Examination of Trademark Filings to Enhance the Integrity of the Trademark Register. “Overall, we found that USPTO’s trademark registration process was not effective in preventing fraudulent or inaccurate registrations.
TTAB filing increases have moderated some lately, but they always lag a year or more; given the increased applications and record number of registrations, a rise in TTAB filings seem inevitable to me in the near future. The post TPAC slides from meeting March 12, 2021 appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.
The USPTO will put into effect on January 2, 2021 what is quite likely the largest trademark fee increase in US history. For details on how to check if your trademark registration is eligible for renewal filing now, see my video here. USPTO Fees Set to Increase in January 2021. The Final Rule is effective on January 2, 2021.
The USPTO recently announced, via notice in the Federal Register , that it intends to issue electronic trademark registration certificates, and only will print physical certificates upon request and with a small fee ($25 per copy). Benefits of Electronic Registrations. 71249, 71250 (December 15, 2021). 238 at page 71249.
Top Trademark Trends of 2021. 2021 was a busy year in the world of trademarks. The act took effect on December 18, 2021, and its main aim is to help declutter the federal register of trademarks that are no longer or were never in use. The record numbers of filings from 2020 and 2021 led to unprecedented backlogs at the USPTO.
A recap of emoji law developments in 2021: Court References. The latest version enumerates a total of 586 opinions through the end of 2021. Courts rarely display the symbols in their opinions; it happened in less than 10% of the 2021 opinions I indexed. I found 166 cases in 2021 (so far), a 23% increase over 2020.
The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Registration of a Mask Work.
This copyright office granted registration in this case. The basis of grant of registration is not clear. It appears that the Copyright Office granted this registration by mistake, without applying its mind, as it issued a withdrawal notice , around one year later. As reported , this notice was issued around November 2021.
The CRTC’s decision to require registration for a wide range of Internet sites and services that meet a $10 million revenue threshold, including podcasters, adult sites, and news sites, appears to have taken many Canadians by surprise. In other words, this isn’t an outlier. I wrote in favour of the extension in a submission.
PPL filed an application for re-registration as a copyright society in March 2013. Subsequently (according to averments), an application for re-registration was filed once again in 2018 by PPL. Shortly after rejecting the application, the Registrar of Copyrights granted registration as a copyright society to RMPL for sound recordings.
Following a Request for Comments in March 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday published a Federal Register Notice updating the General Requirements Bulletin (GRB) for admission to the registration exam to practice in patent cases before the Office.
Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. In this case, the Bombay High Court ruled that registration of copyright is not mandatory for obtaining relief in an infringement action.
2021 USPQ2d 164 (TTAB 2021) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cynthia C. The TTAB dismissed the Olympic Committee’s opposition to registration of the mark PIERRE DE COUBERTIN for various goods in classes 3, 9, 14, 18, 25, and 28, including perfume, sunglasses, jewelry, luggage, clothing, and sporting goods. Welch 2020-2021.
A new year is upon us and, while 2021 proved that a new year doesn’t mean a fresh start, it is still an opportunity to both reflect on the past and look ahead. In December 2021, Spotify made the abrupt decision to remove a long list of comedy performers from their streaming service. 2: The Battle Over Comedy Tracks.
On 12 October 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued Announcement No. According to that directive, from 1 January 2022, the CNIPA will only provide an electronic version of trade mark registration certificates. The year 2016 also saw the commencement of trade mark registration reform in China.
2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. 22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. 2021 WL 2435307 (N.D. June 15, 2021). 2021 WL 151978 (N.D. 2021 WL 2476853 (E.D. La Marque, 2021 WL 1997376 (D. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.
According to the Yonays, they completed that process and the rights reverted to them in January 2020 and work on Top Gun: Maverick didn’t finish until 2021. 3: Thaler Pursues Copyright Challenge Over Denial of AI-Generated Work Registration. 2: IPTV Pirate Must Pay £963K or 88 Month Prison Sentence Becomes 168 Months.
Belmora ) had the TTAB tackled this issue, and here it reached the same outcome: cancellation of two registrations on the ground that Registrant Meenaxi used its registered marks THUMS UP and LIMCA to misrepresent the source of its soft drink products. 2021 U.S.P.Q.2d 2021) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cynthia C.
The court does note that the mark may become registrable if Vox is later able to show acquired distinctiveness. In each of those recent Supreme Court cases, the Trademark Office had attempted to use some shortcut/exception to reject the trademark registration. IN re Vox Populi Registry Ltd. ( The setup appears to be a bit of a scam.
The USPTO recently released its FY 2021 Performance and Accountability Report, which contains detailed information about allowance rates, average pendency, and other statistics about its review of patent and trademark applications this year. To answer that question: By: Fox Rothschild LLP
Indian Copyright Registration The Indian Copyright Office is similarly confused how to handle such requests. In this case, the copyright office allowed registration. The basis for registration is not specified. The procedure is a correction proceeding in court to cancel the registration. A troubling dilemma.
The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a mask work with the Copyright Office provides certain legal benefits, including the ability to bring a lawsuit for infringement of the mask work. Id, section 1206. In particular, Section 1213.2
Welcome to the fourth and final trimester of 2021 round up of EU copyright law! We started this rubric in the beginning of 2021. The end of 2021 has been particularly busy. More than six months have now passed since the deadline to implement the CDSM Directive – 7 June 2021. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.
Introduction Registration of a trademark is an important step toward building a brand on solid ground. Lack of distinctiveness to incorrect classification are among the common errors that can bring derailment upon your trademark registration.
The lion’s share of cases, 84, had works that were already registered when the case was filed (Note: There are an additional three cases where the registration status is unknown). Registration Status at the Time of Filing. Of the registrations, 49 of the registrations were before 2020 and 68 were from before 2022.
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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As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.
The USPTO's 2021 Performance and Accountability Report is chock full of information and data regarding USPTO operations. pdf here ). The report is slightly more than 250 pages long, so I will hit a few of the highlights regarding our favorite tribunal, the TTAB. Under the heading "CASE LAW DEVELOPMENTS: RECENT DECISIONS" (p.
Trademark owners and practitioners have some extra reasons to celebrate this year, as the majority of the Trademark Modernization Act went into effect on December 18, 2021. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
According to the lawsuit, during the spring 2021 semester Berkovitz was teaching a Business 215 class, during which he gave both a midterm and a final exam to the students. In addition to the court costs and legal fees, Berkovitz says that he received an expedited registration from the U.S. This lawsuit was not a modest step.
So far, the Supreme Court has not granted certiorari in any patent cases for its 2021-2022 Term. On September 27, 2021, the court is meeting privately for what is known as the “long conference” to decide the fate of the petitions for writ of certiorari that have piled-up over the summer. by Dennis Crouch.
It finds that, in 2023, there was a 10% increase in visits to pirate IPTV registration pages, with an average of 2.14% of internet users visiting these websites each month. of the EU population used pirate IPTV services in 2021. This has long been a gap in the reporting, as MUSO’s data is based on website visits.
Recently, USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks David Gooder wrote on the USPTO Director’s Forum Blog that registrations for U.S. This has caused delays in a number of stages in the trademark process, including a current pendency of 75 days (as of July 5, 2021) for the Pre-Examination Unit of a TEAS application.
As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.
As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.
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. b)(4) (2021).] Legal Background: Registration.
We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), NUALS is organising a webinar series on ‘Evolving Facets of IPR’ on September 23, 2021. Registration can be done through this link: [link] bcyCpBrnmUgjMvsd9. Registration is free and open to all. About the Organisers: .
However, in some rare instances there are some other peculiar forms of trade mark registrations as well. These are not the most conventional forms of registrations and are often accounted for a higher degree of proof due to their nature. There are numerous issues that may arise for the registration of smell mark.
As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration periods.
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This is achieved through a provision under which contracting parties may require applicants to file information on traditional cultural expressions and traditional knowledge relevant to the eligibility for registration of the design. This contradicts existing jurisprudence on GUI registration in India.
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