Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The lawsuit, filed under the Lanham Act and related Indiana state laws, addresses issues of trademark infringement , unfair competition , false designation of origin , and trademark dilution. 6,935,101), which was granted on December 27, 2022. This trademark is used to identify My Markets services, particularly in the food industry.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Board found that Applicant's specimen of use "does not reflect that consumers of Applicant's services will perceive [either mark] as trademarks indicating. television entertainment services." 87916944 and 879169481 (August 24, 2022) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Peter W. Welch 2022. Serial Nos.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

On the other end are brick and mortar stores that sell trademark-infringing items directly to consumers, regardless of whether the stores design or manufacture those items. CafePress * Cafepress Suffers Potentially Significant Trademark Loss for Users’ Uploaded Designs * Life May Be “Rad,” But This Trademark Lawsuit Isn’t–Williams v.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Introduction A mark represents the institution or company to which it belongs and serves as a means of differentiating goods or services among individuals. Marks can be of various types i.e., word marks, service marks, logos, symbols, series marks, etc [1]. 2022, February 28). 1] Acharya, M.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

2, 2022, the Federal Circuit decided In re Vox Populi Registry Ltd. , The Federal Circuit found that substantial evidence supported the Board’s finding that consumers will perceive.SUCKS only as a non-source identifying part of a domain name and not as a service mark.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

2, 2022, the Federal Circuit decided In re Vox Populi Registry Ltd. , The Federal Circuit found that substantial evidence supported the Board’s finding that consumers will perceive.SUCKS only as a non-source identifying part of a domain name and not as a service mark.

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The TTABlog

JULY 8, 2024

In this appeal from final refusals issued in two expungement proceedings, the Board affirmed the USPTO Director's decision to cancel registrations for the mark SMARTLOCK , in standard character and design form, for "Components for air conditioning and cooling systems, namely, evaporative air coolers." Century Life of Am.,

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The TTABlog

MARCH 27, 2024

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark WE’RE HERE TO HELP WITH YOUR LEGAL NEEDS! finding that the phrase fails to function as a service mark for "legal services." That opinion had originally been deemed nonprecedential, but at the USPTO's request, the court re-designated it as precedential.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The pro se applicant argued, without success, that the proposed mark is suggestive rather than merely descriptive because "HUMAN could refer to any number of ambiguous interpretations about the mark, especially if HUMAN is used as a noun." 88526515 (December 15, 2022) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Michael B. Welch 2022.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Crowded Field of Third-Party Registrations and Uses Leads to TTAB Reversal of "MATCH STUDIO" Over "MATCH" for Clothing Licensee's Prior Common Law Use Established Priority for "SNORE MD" Mark TTABlog Test: Is "BEDLAM VODKA & Design" for Vodka Confusable With "BEDLAM! & Design" for Beer?

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IIPRD

JUNE 13, 2024

When artificial technologies are utilized for creating innovations, such as employing evolutionary algorithms for antenna design or engaging IBM Watson to produce music, IPR laws become relevant. AI is doing lots of creative work in the fields of animation, web apps, images, music, designing, and various other things. 21-2347 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

” Scrooge wasn’t the only one who had that idea: a business owner registered ALWAYS CHRISTMAS & Design as a service mark in 1995 (Registration No. As Ebeneezer Scrooge put it after being visited by the three ghosts: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2022

You can, so long as you are offering goods and/or services under that trademark. For example, if you complete your online store offering downloadable software on January 1, 2022, you may affix the “TM” ( ) symbol the same day. The “SM” (℠) symbol stands for service mark. “logo”).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here in a nutshell is the query the Court addressed: 16 Under Article 7(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001, trade marks which are devoid of any distinctive character shall not be registered. ” But that is more in the sense of philosophical acknowledgment of the possibility than practical acceptance of very large numbers of sound marks. .”

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

e), the CAFC has re-designated as precedential its opinion in In re GO & Associates, LLC , Appeal No. 2022-1961 (Fed. 14, 2023, re-designated as precedential, January 22, 2024). 2022), cert. At the request of the USPTO under Fed. The TMEP is not the law - ed. ]. at 8–9 (quoting In re Elster , 26 F.4th granted sub nom.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In In re GO & Associates, LLC , 2022-1961 (Fed. 13, 2023) , the Federal Circuit affirmed the TTAB’s refusal to register the mark EVERYBODY VS RACISM because it failed to function as a trademark. Isaacs , 2022-1434 (Fed. In Trek Bicycle Corp. The Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP) § 1202.04

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