Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Trademarks have become an important part of running a business. Increasingly, businesses across India are applying for trademarks. This helps them stand out and acts as a prime instrument for advertising and selling their products. Primarily, a trademark distinguishes the goods and services of one trader from those of others.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 14, 2023

A trade name is a name under which a company pursues its business and needs to be distinguished from the entity’s registered or legal name. Many countries require registering a trade name or business name in a special register. The expenses associated with trademark registration pale in comparison to this.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 26, 2022

In contrast, trademarks in the United States —in some instances referred to as service marks or trade names—are created by use by a person “in commerce”; technically, no government approval is required. Copyright Office, after what amounts to a much lighter review process. See also: RC Cola, Polar Cola, Jolt!—and and so on. )

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In an exhaustive and exhausting decision, the Board sustained an opposition to registration of the mark HME in the stylized from shown below, for various types of pipes and other building products, finding confusion likely with opposer's mark KME for overlapping goods. Zhejiang Hailiang Co.,

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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For those of us less familiar with the workings of the British Crown, Royal Warrants are a type of distinction that the Royal Household has issued since 1840, through the Royal Warrant Holders Association, to companies or traders that regularly supply goods or services (paid) during at least five out of the seven years preceding an application.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Nice Agreement, concluded at Nice in 1957, revised at Stockholm in 1967 and at Geneva in 1977, and amended in 1979, establishes a classification of goods and services for the purposes of registering trademarks and service marks (the Nice Classification).

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IP Whiteboard

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In 2008, Sydney Cabs and Manly Cabs entered a Business Sale Agreement ( BSA ) which stated that Sydney Taxis would obtain certain telephone numbers of Manly Cabs at completion but did not describe the mechanism by which this was to occur ( Disputed Numbers ). Sydney Taxis operated a radio room and call centre for both Manly Cabs and RSL Cabs.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 20, 2022

The registration of your product holds enormous significance as it ensures your mark isn’t misrepresented in the market, safeguards your goodwill, ensures control over advertising and branding, and the list can go on. It can be registered in a single class or multi-class.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Applicant argued that the cited mark is weak in view of third-party uses and registrations in the travel field, and so confusion is not likely. Under the sixth DuPont factor, the Board considered whether the strength "may be attenuated by '[t]he number and nature of similar marks in use on similar goods [and services].'"

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