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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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

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 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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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

by Spyridon Sipetas Le sac Swoosh - Instagram (@Jacquemus) On February 26, Jacquemus and Nike revealed their latest collaborative piece, ‘Le sac Swoosh’ (or ‘The Swoosh bag’), teasing their upcoming Spring/Summer 2024 collection, in the context of their partnership, dating back to 2022.

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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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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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JD Supra Law

JUNE 24, 2022

As many brand owners are now aware, the USPTO recently commenced copying registrants on notices of registration as part of their transition to electronic registrations. However, in. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

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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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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The case concerned the registration of 'Prosecco' as a GI in Singapore. This Kat was interested to see a court finally address this argument Singapore has offered protection for GIs since 1999, but it only adopted a registration-based system in the last decade with the Geographical Indications Act 2014 ('GIA').

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Just click play below, and enjoy Nope streaming online – all without any registration or credit card required!” Instead, it redirects to other scammy URLs that are branded as malicious by several anti-virus companies. ” The links we followed point to gatto.fun, which looks like a piracy site.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Their rights will be protected thanks to the metaverse brands’ trademarks. In 2022, “Gucci” and “Roblox” opened a permanent “Gucci Town” as part of their ongoing partnership. The trademark registration safeguards the owner’s rights and establishes the business’s legal standing.

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Patently-O

JUNE 29, 2022

Coca-Cola stepped-in in 2016 seeking to cancel Meenaxi’s mark registrations. But, the missing link was evidence that the US-based Indians and Indian-Americans were aware of the branding. There is no basis [in the evidence] to assume that an American of Indian descent is aware of brands in India. Meenaxi Enterprise, Inc.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

But trademark law elsewhere extends far past product/service names to things like a building’s layout, slogans, uniforms, and other aspects of the “product” itself; indeed, the PTO has granted registration for NKJV for Bibles, referring to the New King James Version. Will people assume co-branding? Confusion as to source?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2022

In various forms, including under the 1channel branding , the site has been in operation for perhaps eight years. Its domains are blocked by court order in the United Kingdom , Ireland , Norway , Denmark and Portugal , and the site has been repeatedly branded a ‘notorious market’ by the MPA. or primewire.vc

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Before mid-2022, the Copyright Office will deploy a new adjudicatory function called the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). Federal courts typically require the copyright owner to have a copyright registration in hand before suing ( see 17 U.S.C. In contrast, a copyright owner can initiate a CCB proceeding before obtaining a registration.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In today’s age, the importance of brands (and in turn trademarks) cannot be undermined. It is through brands that businesses (be it domestic or international) are able to thrive and flourish in various highly competitive sectors. At a fundamental level, it is an accepted fact that a trademark serves as a source identifier viz.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 17, 2023

Early December 2022, ACE/MPA quickly took control of two domains – Magisglobal.net and Magistvapk.com – presumably as part of its ongoing investigation. is openly displayed as the registrant along with one of two specific email addresses. With MarkMonitor listed as the registrar, the Motion Picture Association, Inc.

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