The IPKat

JANUARY 20, 2025

Then, the Turin court clarified that the owner of the combination colour trade mark is undoubtedly Juventus and not Adidas, as the former publicly used the shirt (which also bears Juventuss word mark along with the Scudetto won in the previous season) in its home games throughout the 2019/20 season.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A recent ruling by the Hon’ble Delhi High Court elevated the brand Haldiram as a well-known trademark. This is a landmark decision in the Indian intellectual property law regime as it sets a precedent for safeguarding established trademarks in India. Let us look into the said case i.e. Haldiram India Pvt.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

Exclusive rights over a trademark in Colombia arise from registration. Also, when holding a trademark registration in Colombia, the obligation arises for its owner to use the trademark in commerce, beginning three (3) years from the date when registration was granted.

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43(B)log

JULY 1, 2022

Lanham Act false advertising: Failing to delete email and voicemail accounts is not “commercial advertising or promotion.” Omissions and inactions of this sort do not constitute either ordinary advertising or “a systematic communicative endeavor to persuade possible customers to buy the seller’s product.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 8, 2022

b) an industrial design that is contrary to public order or morality. (b) c) illicitly affixes on products, advertisements, trademarks, containers or other object indications that may lead to believe that the object is a registered industrial design.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

A company can use a unique typeface to convey pretty much anything on any of its products, its advertising, its website, and any other place a company would publicly use the written word. Recent law suggests that a unique typeface could function as a signifier of origin, or in other words, as a trademark.

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The TTABlog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Genericness: The Board found that the word “sneaker(s)” is generic for retail services featuring sneakers because it is a term that the relevant public uses or understands to refer to a key aspect or subcategory of the genus, which Nike did dispute. Nike submitted numerous articles showing use of SNKRS as a trademark.

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