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). One of our recent registrations is for Trademarkive® , the name of our online collection featuring some of our most valuable content on key trademark topics.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

From time to time, this Kat receives queries from clients in relation to the registrability of slogans as trade marks. The Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) in its recent decision refused a trade mark application for the slogan “TAKE FIVE” in Class 32 ( Case R 664/2022-1 ).

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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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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2022

as one of its 2022 “Rising Stars.” Managing Intellectual Property ?( MIP ) magazine recently recognized Fish & Richardson Associate? Vivian Cheng ?as According to?

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The IPKat

JULY 14, 2024

On Friday, the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) announced the registration of a new geographical indication (GI): the "Melitopol Cherry". The registration of the appellation of origin in Ukraine was finalised in September 2020.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Yesterday, it was all about key developments in the copyright field in the Africa IP Highlights 2022 – the result of collaboration between myself and Doreen Adoma Agyei and Clarisse Mideva. Today, it’s all about trade marks.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 14, 2025

In Renaissance Hotel Holdings v B Vijaya Sai (2022) [discussed here ], the Supreme Court found the words Renaissance and Sai Renaissance visually, as well as phonetically similar. While its first registration for the brand name in India (1979) was under Class 16 [Paper & Paper Products] , the trademark was registered w.r.t.

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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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43(B)log

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In December 2020, Deetsch notified Amazon of his patents through the Brand Registry portal and asked Amazon to remove the Lei defendants’ products. He sent two letters by mail in March 2022, but was told he needed to use the Brand Registry … which he had already done. Again, right of publicity would’ve been better.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The first two registrations contained an endorsement that The applicant has advised that a translation of the ITALIAN word MERCATO appearing in the trade mark is MARKET, but the Red Man Logo registration did not.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Bonnie Hassanzadeh is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. The exclusivity of use granted to a mark-owner under the Act makes registration essential to a successful rebrand. Conclusion.

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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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Patently-O

APRIL 1, 2022

Still, when I saw the brand name CLEAR as applied to footwear, I did not expect for the shoes to be transparent. . In re Dolce Vita Footwear (Fed. This is a pending trademark case involving the mark CLEAR that Dolce Vita uses on their shoes. Note here that the applicant was seeking to register the mark for both Footwear and Bags/Cases.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Earlier this month, the Fifth Board of Appeal (BoA) of the EUIPO refused the registration of CHOPIN for several goods in Classes 29, 30, and 32 of the Nice Classification due to the risk of free-riding on the reputation of the earlier trade mark CHOPIN under Article 8(5) EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR).

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Trademark Office issued the following 139 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in October 2022 based on applications filed by Indiana trademark attorneys: Registration Number. Word Mark. LUCKY PRICE BRAND. ALWAYS SIMPLE ALWAYS SATISFYING SIEMPRE SOUPS.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 9, 2022

As a first step, the UK announced that it has joined the Global Brands Database made available by WIPO. Secondly, the government responded to the c all for views on designs , which ran from 25 January 2022 to 25 March 2022, alongside a survey. As a result, the database will now also list UK registered trade marks.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Domain Name Registrations Surge According to Russian cybersecurity firm Angara Security , registrations of domain names with a movie or TV show theme began to surge at the start of the month. The company says that between February 1 and February 10 alone, registrations were up 64% on similar registrations for the whole of January.

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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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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

The proverbial brand owner’s guidebook became a little bigger in 2022. Developments in practice opened new avenues for securing and enforcing trademark rights over the past year, including an “accelerated” path to trademark registration and additional guidance for invalidating bad faith registrations.

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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. respectively.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even a mark that has been on the International Registry for 40 years does not assure registration of a subsequent national designation. On 12 January 2022, the Lithuanian Supreme Court upheld the rejection of the Lithuanian designation of Chanel SARL’s two-dimensional trademark (see below) in Class 3 for perfumery products.

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Patently-O

JUNE 1, 2022

But, Barclays was not using the marks and allowed their registration to expire. Barclays opposed the whisky registration and also applied to re-register its mark. It is clear here that whisky registration was seeking to free-ride upon consumer recognition of the Lehman Brothers name. by Dennis Crouch. Tiger Lily Ventures Ltd v.

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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).

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Madelaine Lynch is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. Trademarks are an excellent way to protect your brand. do not protect the goods themselves, but rather they protect your brand. What can be a Trademark?

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 30, 2022

Thank you for reading the March 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss copyright registration eligibility in relation to non-human authorship and new legislation surrounding medical marijuana research. We are excited to celebrate over 100 issues of MarkIt to Market®!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 4, 2022

Pyrotechnics (under the “FireOne” brand) claims to be the “world leader in digital pyrotechnic firing systems.” Let’s take a closer look at Pyrotechnics’ registration. ” Pyrotechnics’ copyright registration then starts to fall apart. .” June 29, 2022).

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Patently-O

APRIL 20, 2022

The TTAB did not go there, but instead refused registration after concluding that the mark was “merely descriptive.” GOD Is A Brand Name®, as are “I AM,” “YHWH,” “Yahweh,” “Jesus Christ™”, “Allah”, “Lord GOD of Israel,” “EL”, “Human Beings.” Glascoe appealed pro se.

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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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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

-Bee) has scheduled eight (8) oral hearings for the month of September 2022. September 7, 2022 - 11 AM: Dutch Bros., September 8, 2022 - 11 AM (In Person): Caterpillar Inc. September 15, 2022 - 3:30 PM (ABA IPL Sections 10th Annual Trademark Day Event): In re Seminole Tribe of Florida , Serial No. Denco Horeca Beheer B.V.

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The IPKat

JUNE 24, 2024

After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 , many brands announced that they would leave the Russian market. If public announcements were to be believed, more than 1000 companies planned to leave Russia in 2022. But it is not just about new registrations. Who actually left?

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Template from here In the foreground of today’s fiercely competitive offline and digital marketplaces, where brands engage in neck-to-neck battles for visibility, the role of colours in trademarks has become a focal point of legal discourse.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2022

When a lawsuit directly attacks a site’s ability to operate using specific domains or branding, for example, the ‘hydra effect’ comes into play. The MPA’s anti-piracy team became aware of the site around May 31, 2022, and they’re convinced that PrimeWire’s operators are involved.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Case Summaries Philip Morris Brands Sarl vs M/S Rahul Pan Shop & Ors. The Petitioner applied for its first trade mark application in the 1950s and since then the Petitioner has obtained over 85 trade mark registrations in its favour for the mark “GANESH” and the “GANESH” formative variants.

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The IPKat

MARCH 20, 2022

EVENTS ECTA ®etreat | 7 April 2022 | Milan, IT The ECTA ®etreat entitled " The never-ending challenge of shape protection: design, trade mark and copyright " will be held in Milan on April 7, 2022! The full programme, list of panellists and registration can be found here. Registration and tickets are available here.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Conceived by Ruth Handler and named after her own daughter, Barbie has, from its inception, been a driving force behind Mattel’s successful branding efforts, resulting in the sale of over a billion Barbie dolls and the expansion of the franchise into various media, including video games, merchandise, and a live-action movie.

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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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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

Generally, there are two different types of scams that are sent to trademark owners: (1) solicitations to have a trademark listed in a “directory” or publication and to have it “monitored” for a fee, and (2) fraudulent warnings about key trademark maintenance deadlines, including registration renewals. [1] February 20, 2022.

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