IP Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2023

The brief contends that the country’s most popular brands are at risk of losing their brand identity if the Court affirms the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s view that a poop-themed dog toy mimicking Jack Daniel’s Whiskey bottle is an expressive work entitled to First Amendment protection.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 16, 2023

StockX, LLC, Nike filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against StockX, LLC, an online resale sneaker retailer, in February 2022 in the U.S. NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS AND TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT: WHERE DOES THE LAW STAND? District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 6, 2022

Summer is around the corner, which means we are seeking law student(s) for a paid IP/Trademark internship from May/June – July/August 2022. Applications will be accepted through January 24, 2022.

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43(B)log

JUNE 10, 2024

4, 2024) Finding Zesty Paws’ “#1 Brand” claim literally false, the court grants a preliminary injunction despite Zesty Paws’ attempt to create a factual dispute about what a “brand” is. The dispute turned on what a “brand” is; Zesty Paws argued that Nutramax was not a brand, but Cosequin etc. Nutramax Labs.,

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here are the biggest trademark stories of 2022 that we have been following at EMP&A. The application was initially approved and published for opposition in June 2022. Besides Mariah, there were many other celebrity trademark stories this year, as more an more celebrities launch more and more brands. © 2022 Erik M.

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As a small business law firm, we have taken our own advice and we have more than a dozen trademark registrations in our name (17 registrations as of fall 2022). It’s important to file a trademark application as soon as you come up with a brand name and plan to launch a product or service.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With the FIFA 2022 World Cup in full swing, it is a great time to review the “playing field” for trademark protection. Offense – goal scoring and attacking: litigating as needed to protect the brand. Goalie – The ultimate protector and backstop: Trademark Registration.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 31, 2021

A shortened Office Action response time of 3 months (previously 6 months), with an extension available for a fee, effective December 1, 2022. The biggest individual brand story of the year was Facebook’s announcement of its new META brand. 2022 is likely to see even more developments in this field. Mega META announcement.

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The IPKat

JUNE 28, 2024

Background In October 2022, Mr. Aslan travelled from Turkey to Germany. Aslan stated at an oral heading in April 2024 that he was now of the opinion that he had infringed Off-White’s trade mark rights through the importation of the counterfeit goods in 2022.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On October 25, 2022, following a string of antisemitic remarks and hate speech from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) on social media, Adidas announced their decision to terminate their co-branding partnership with Ye and end production of all Yeezy branded products. While Ye’s company, Mascotte Holdings Inc.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2023

458 Investigations, 449 Sites/Services Removed Published this week, BREIN’s annual report for 2022 covers enforcement actions carried out on behalf of rightsholders across most sectors, including movies, TV shows, music, games, and publishing. At the end of 2022, 196 proxies and mirrors were also blocked by IP address and/or DNS.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

2022 WL 16555584 (S.D.N.Y. 31, 2022): When an individual’s decision to disseminate an Instagram post is the “very thing the article [is] reporting on,” the use of the Instagram post and its copyrighted material in the reporting has been deemed sufficiently transformative to support a fair use defense. 2022 WL 17430309 (9th Cir.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

While Hailey Bieber’s new skin care brand Rhode promises “ happy and hydrated skin, ” the brand itself has a blemish: an alleged trademark infringement. Rhode-NYC argues that Hailey Bieber’s use of her middle name “Rhode” as the name of her skin care brand is creating market confusion and potential harm to its goodwill and reputation.

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The IPKat

MARCH 12, 2025

The brand owners would have no desire for Samwise Gamgee's stewed rabbit - let alone his chips with a nice piece of fried fish - albeit for a different reason than Gollum: the Lord of the Fries menu is entirely vegan. The brand continues to operate nine stores in Australia. Promotional images of the "Lord of the."

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 11, 2023

Name, Image, and Likeness Deals Are on the Rise - Name, Image, and Likeness (“NIL”) agreements, which allow an individuals’ name, image, and likeness to be used to market and sell branded apparel, footwear, and other consumer goods are on the rise. On July 1, 2021, in response to the famous NCAA v.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Nonetheless, brands have evolved and now adopt a more pragmatic approach, seeking to improve the client experience and linking NFTs to the traceability of the items of clothing. The fashion industry was one of the first industries to enthusiastically explore the opportunities afforded by the metaverse and NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2023

[Image Sources : Istock] Metaverse- a Magnet to Fashion Brands Virtual worlds provide fashion brands with the opportunity to significantly cut down on the excessive resource consumption of lifestyle and create sustainability. Fashion brands are no strangers to the continuous fight against fake and counterfeit items in the real world.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Abhishek, in two interviews ( here and her e ), has argued that the FSA explicitly stated that all brand, IPR, copyright, TMs (whatever that means) of the Lodha business, including Lodha and Lodha group, would belong to the Lodha Developers Private Limited (Macrotech Developers). Prafull (2013).

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As 2021 comes to an end, we look forward to what 2022 has in store.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And it was brought to mind again recently when I learned the theme selected for Peer Review Week 2022 — “ Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research.”. Consistency may well be the most critical component to the trust readers put in a journal’s – or an author’s – brand. Where and how were the data collected?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Background Amgen produces and markets apremilast, a medication for the treatment of certain types of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, under the brand name Otezla. 2022), the Federal Circuit held that varying a dose in response to the occurrence of side effects is well-known and obvious to the skilled artisan. Sandoz Inc. ,

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Continuing into the first 8 months of 2022, there were over 180. It can show important things for your business, for your brand, as well as fun and interesting things like the boom in pickleball. In 2018, there were just 20 filings that referenced pickleball at the USPTO. In 2021, there were 80.

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The IPKat

JULY 14, 2024

The impact of occupation Before the invasion, Ukraine was a major exporter of cherries to countries like Belarus, with Melitopol cherries as one of the dominant brands. The exports dropped after the Melitopol orchards in the Zaporizhzhia region were occupied in early 2022.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 27, 2023

One of the recent changes at the USPTO in 2022 was the transition to electronic registration certificates. I’m a big believer in the value of registration certificates—framing them, hanging them to show your employees and your customers how important your brand is and how proud you are that you’ve protected it.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The metaverse virtual world is a shiny new sandbox for brands to play in. Platform terms and features for branded content on social media is quite developed, but that is not yet the case for the metaverse. As affirmed at the 2022 National Advertising Division (NAD) Annual Conference, the traditional.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 21, 2022

On May 25, 2021 the Japan Patent Office (JPO) granted Nobuaki Kurokawa a trademark for his apparel brand named “CUGGL” for class 25 (clothing and footwear). This year, when the t-shirt design for CUGGL was released, the Italian fashion brand Gucci tried to get the trademark cancelled.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The event was, as ever, chaired by PermaKat Prof Dr Eleonora Rosati together with Giulia Gasparin, and the calibre and range of the speakers was bound to result in lively discussion; with panellists from marketplaces such as Amazon, Zalando and Etsy engaging in discussion with brand and consumer voices as well as private practice lawyers.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the present case, the Plaintiff, a furniture seller, was selling his products under the brand name ‘Maharaja’ on Flipkart and various other e-commerce websites. Other furniture sellers, latching on to Maharaja’s listing, used Plaintiff’s product image as well as brand name and tagged themselves as the alternative sellers of the goods.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

” In its 2022 ‘Engaging With Music’ report, IFPI estimates that almost a third of people say they have used illegal or unlicensed methods to download and listen to music. Similar brands appear in legal documents relating to a High Court ruling in the UK.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We own more than a dozen trademark registrations for our brand, slogans and other creative trademarks, and we recently became the owners of a patent application. The internal name for this patent pending (as of June 6, 2022) tool is Tracker , because it is our proprietary internal system for monitoring all of our files.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

pic.twitter.com/lBY2WlBMLC — BaphoMat Auryn (@MatAuryn) August 4, 2022. Though Amazon claims in its Brand Protection Report to have taken down millions of improper listings and destroyed millions of products , that same proactive push is not extended to authors, even those featured on its Kindle service.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In the spring and summer of 2022, following the international sanctions imposed upon Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, Russia introduced several landmark changes to its IP law, most notably to patent, trademark and copyright laws. The list includes such well-known brands as Apple, HP, Panasonic, Siemens, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2023

In a more recent report to the USTR, the MPA said that in August 2022 alone, a handful of Cuevana-branded domains received 130 million visits. In August 2022, the.me me Comes Under Attack Cuevana3-branded domains were also appearing on national ISP blacklists, including in Peru, courtesy of local government IP body INDECOPI.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 12, 2023

More than two years ago the federal government shut down Gears-branded IPTV services operated by Pennsylvania and New Jersey man, Bill Omar Carrasquillo – better known online as ‘Omi in a Hellcat’ The seizure of dozens of high-end cars and a reported $5.2m Carrasquillo Pleads Guilty. Barone Entered a Guilty Plea.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 11, 2024

Trademarks are traditionally considered to be connected with visual elements that include logos, brand names, as well as packaging however, the field of trademarks has widened and it includes non-traditional marks, such as smells, sounds, colors etc. Iconic scents like Chanel No. Iconic scents like Chanel No.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

& Anr. , (2022) the Delhi High Court held that advertisements can be protected under copyright law, provided that they are distinctive enough that their imitation would cause confusion amongst members of the public. Thus, the recognition under copyright allows brands to control their own brand identity.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 16, 2025

The boys were looking for 90,000 in return for a 5% stake in Doughboys Group Limited, a frozen pizza brand disrupting the market with its tasty Italian sourdough pizzas, designed to add some flavour to the wholesale market. Eye-catching eats One of the first things that struck me was the eye-catching branding across Doughboys products.

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