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The Madrid Protocol: Streamlining International Trademark Registration

IP and Legal Filings

Madrid Protocol provides a simplified mechanism towards even more unifying international registration for trademarks to overcome such hurdles. The Madrid Protocol had approximately 130 member countries, fully counting by January 2024, and covered almost 80% of global trade. Operational Mechanism of the Madrid Protocol 1.

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Call for Participation: WIPIP, Santa Clara, Feb. 2-3, 2024

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The High Tech Law Institute invites you to participate in the 21st annual Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP), which will be held February 2-3, 2024, at Santa Clara University School of Law, in Santa Clara, California. Please include “WIPIP 2024” in the email subject line. Eric Goldman at egoldman@gmail.com.

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SpicyIP Tidbit: CGPDTM Notifies Patent and Trademark Agent Exams 2024

SpicyIP

Image by storyset on Freepik The CGPDTM has notified the 2024 Patent and Trademarks Agents Exams. The accompanying guidelines to the notice give other relevant information about the registration process, issuance of admit cards, nature of the written examinations, and importantly the syllabus for the exam.

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Comments Invited for Amendments to the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999, by October 10

SpicyIP

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in a public notice , dated September 27, 2024, has announced that the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is in the process of amending the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999. by October 10, 2024, the last date of submission.

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Rise of Patents in India and Amended Rules Of 2024

IP and Legal Filings

IMPROTANCE OF PATENT REGISTRSTION The registration of the Patent is essential for the inventors and businesses alike, providing a multifaceted protection for an invention. The registration unlatches the possibility to monetize the invention. Moreover, a patent registration makes the competitive advantage stronger.

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TTAB Orders Cancellation of "THE PLIMSOULS" Registration on Ownership and Likelihood of Confusion Grounds, Rejects Abandonment Claim

The TTABlog

In another of those battles between a rock band and one of its members, the Board again sided with the band, granting a petition for cancellation of a registration for THE PLIMSOULS for "entertainment in the nature of live performances by a musical band." 92076883 (May 8, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Michael B.

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Precedential No. 10: TTAB Denies Section 18 Petition to Restrict Beer Registration to Micro-Brewed Craft Beer

The TTABlog

In an attempt to side-step a Section 2(d) refusal of the mark shown below, for "gin," Petitioner Iron Balls International petitioned to restrict Respondent Bull Creek's registration for the mark IRON BALLS for "beer" to "“micro-brewed craft beer." 92079099 (June 4, 2024) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge David K. Welch 2024.