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How to Protect a Trademark or Service Mark for a Brewery or Beer Name

JD Supra Law

Creating a unique craft beer has become an art form, and craft beer communities are quickly growing. The brewers regularly surprise their devoted craft beer communities with new beers while serving their popular classics every year. By: Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

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Call for Nominations for IPLAC Creator of the Year

Chicago IP

Trademark Law: A powerful branding program that combines a strong trademark or service mark and a memorable advertising and marketing campaign. Copyright Law: An important and original work of authorship, in the literary, musical, visual, dramatic or other arts. Nominees can be individuals, groups or corporations.

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Trademark: What’s In it for You?

Velocity of Content

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.

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Call for Nominations for IPLAC Creator of the Year

LexBlog IP

Trademark Law: A powerful branding program that combines a strong trademark or service mark and a memorable advertising and marketing campaign. Copyright Law: An important and original work of authorship, in the literary, musical, visual, dramatic or other arts. Nominees can be individuals, groups or corporations.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The hypothetical is set in the art world: a painter makes posters of his works, which are lawfully bought by an art gallery. The art gallery then transfers inks from the posters to a canvas and sells those canvas for a significantly lower price than the painter’s original work.

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"WHEN THERE ARE NINE" Fails to Function as a Source Indicator for Scholarship Services, Says TTAB

The TTABlog

The Board affirmed a failure-to-function refusal to register WHEN THERE ARE NINE , in standard character form, as a service mark for "providing educational scholarships." may influence how the [mark] is perceived.’” The Board noted that the applicant used the phrase in the manner of a service mark, but that begs the question.

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Print-on-Demand Services Face More Legal Woes–Canvasfish v. Pixels

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

However, it does sell, manufacture, and print the same type of goods that are directly covered by Canvasfish’s registered service mark… Canvasfish has a registered mark for an online store that sells prints, boat wraps, phone cases, drinkware and various other products bearing DeYoung’s artwork and registered mark.

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