Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its certain that none of us enjoy putting a soggy brolly back into our bags, and Gilley promises a solution to these common issues with its wind-proof design thats also less prone to loss thanks to its hard, moisture-wicking case. If you enjoyed todays episode, why not subscribe to our Dragons Den IPO blog?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

It is always recommended for a mask work applicant to identify the “novel points” in the design during the registration step (e.g., The registration history may be introduced as one piece of evidence to show the materiality of the copied portions. Mask Work Infringement Defense.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In addition to trade marks, you can also protect the visual appearance of your product, or packaging, with a registered design. Design registration lasts for 5 years before you need to renew it (up to a maximum of 25 years) and starts from as little as 50.00.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 16, 2025

The boys were looking for 90,000 in return for a 5% stake in Doughboys Group Limited, a frozen pizza brand disrupting the market with its tasty Italian sourdough pizzas, designed to add some flavour to the wholesale market. You can read more about it in our blog. Their logo and colours really capture the artisan and Italian feel.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Supreme Court held 6-3 that the Ninth Circuit erred in invalidating a copyright registration for failure to comply with the Copyright Office’s “single unit of publication” regulation, where the copyright owner had knowledge of the facts but arguably misunderstood the legal standard. Unicolors, Inc. Factual and Procedural Background.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 8, 2022

The Designs Act is an act that protects one of the most significant Intellectual Property Rights of a person. Therefore, many acts govern several IPRs one of which includes the Designs Act,2000. Therefore, many acts govern several IPRs one of which includes the Designs Act,2000. This blog explains all its salient features.

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

So your trademark application has been refused registration on the basis that your mark is confusingly similar to at least one registered mark. While there may be a high number of both registered and pending marks, coexisting registrations of similar marks by different owners would carry more weight.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 3, 2023

Your products and product designs are the life blood of your business. However, many companies don’t think about protecting their creative product designs, and product packaging with intellectual property registrations.

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IPilogue

APRIL 14, 2022

They held that an inadvertent mistake of law in a copyright registration application does not automatically nullify the application. . a fabric and design company in Los Angeles, owns copyrights in various fabric designs. copyright registration processes. Unicolors, Inc., In a 6-3 decision, the U.S.

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The IPKat

APRIL 3, 2022

It is always difficult to obtain registration for geographical names. Kluwer Trademark Blog recently considered the EU trade mark application for “Andorra” for classes 16, 34, 36, 41 and 44 filed by the Government of Andorra. Kluwer Patent Blog provided a helpful summary. Dolce Vita has now appealed to the Federal Circuit.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

1992) Takeaway It is always recommended for a mask work applicant to identify the “novel points” in the design during the registration step (e.g., The registration history may be introduced as one piece of evidence to show the materiality of the copied portions.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The label in question was designed by an employee of SK Oil Industries. NTC even referred to the Bombay High Court’s judgment in Dhiraj Dharamdas Dewani vs. Sonal Info Systems Pvt Ltd, where it held that Copyright Registration is compulsory to maintain a civil or criminal action under the Copyright Act of 1957.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What the second Circuit did say was that, like in the Jack Daniel’s case, the Wavy Baby used plaintiff’s trademarks and trade dress throughout the design of its product. This from a Court that has struck down two statutory trademark registration provisions for burdening speech. Tam , 582 U.S. 218 (2017); Iancu v. Brunetti , 139 S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 9, 2023

The EU IPO denied a trademark registration for the following symbol in various real estate-related classes: The trademark examiner determined that the symbol means “I love you” in American Sign Language (ASL). The post European IP Office Denies Trademark Registration for “I Love You” Emoji ?

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Garrigues Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Whether or not these types of products or components can be protected as industrial designs must be addressed case by case. The legal protection of industrial designs mainly covers aesthetics, the specific shape or aesthetic configuration of a product. Specifically, article 4.2 of Regulation 6/2002. of Regulation 6/2002). Article 4.3

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In pursuance of its goal to accelerate EV adoption, it developed a new vehicle design and coined the same EZIO. Gensol EV also created a “ezio” logo for the vehicle design and secured a registration of the word mark EZIO on a proposed to be used basis ( Class 12 ) with the Trade Marks Registry.

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Intepat

MARCH 13, 2025

Architectural designs came to be recognised as a form of intellectual property capable of protection after the 1908 Amendment to the Berne Convention, 1886. This inclusion was crucial in recognising and protecting the rights of architects over their architectural designs and works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As I’ve blogged many, many times on this blog (see list below), 512(f) has been a complete failure. A few plaintiffs have won default judgments (including one I blog below). ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker. .”

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BYU Copyright Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

Cooper alleged that Gladwell copied one of their rug designs, and Gladwell responded with a motion to dismiss based on the fact that the rug was designed by one Omer Copur, a co-founder of Kev & Cooper LLC. Given both of those facts, the Motion to Dismiss was denied.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2016, the Federal Patent Court rejected a requested trademark registration of the term “EMOJIS” for chocolate because this expression was already an established designation for figurative symbols in electronic communication (in the German language, the plural of emoji is “Emojis”). Emoji as marginal notes.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

CIPS also aims at suggesting amendments and efficient implementation of IP to the Government of India and monitoring the design and dissemination of various courses and programmes pertaining to intellectual property rights training and research. The NLUJ-CIPS Blog. 5000 & publication in the CIPS Blog. Second Prize: Rs.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Other Posts SpicyIP Tidbit: Delhi Police Authorized to Issue Takedown Orders for Unlawful Content On 26th December 2024, the Delhi Government issued a gazette notification, designating Delhi Police as the nodal agency for regulating digital content hosted or published on intermediary platforms in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 20, 2023

In a whopping 163-page opinion, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of two registrations for the configuration of safety helmets, rejecting Petitioner Honeywell's Section 2(e)(5) functionality claim but sustaining Honeywell's claim of lack of acquired distinctiveness. This blog post will summarize the high points of the decision.].

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ares Design, an Italian car manufacturer, filed a cancellation action against Ferrari’s mark by arguing that it had not been used for a continuous five-year period. The shape was once eligible for protection as a registered design, but designs can only last for a maximum term of 25 years in the EU.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

This summer, the Copyright Review Board issued an interesting decision about the registrability of emojis. The Copyright Review Board is the Copyright Office’s internal administrative review process for the registration decisions of individual copyright examiners. The examiner denied the registrations. copyright law.

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Nelligan Law

APRIL 1, 2025

But heres the legal twist: a quick search of the USPTO database shows that Lost doesnt own a design mark for any stylized Mayhem logo. And according to that registration, the first commercial use of the mark wasnt in 1986it was September 1988. But the lawsuit goes beyond that, claiming Gagas design is infringing.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While copyright is concerned with the creative part of jewellery, design is concerned with the shape, configuration, pattern, and mix of lines or colours in two or three-dimensional forms. After examining the above cases, it is difficult to predict whether a single piece of jewellery will be considered an artistic work or a design.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A post analysing the judgment will be coming up soon in the blog. Stay tuned for a comment on this judgment in the blog. WIPO, Agreement on diplomatic conference on Design Law Treaty. In July, the WIPO Member States agreed to go ahead with a diplomatic conference on the protection of designs to ease cross-border trade.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For businesses like Manta Hair, securing design rights or patents can offer a quicker path to protection, ensuring the uniqueness of their product is safeguarded in the market. When it isn't possible or cost effective to patent an invention, design registration may be the solution.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For IndiGo, the 6E callsign has been an integral element of the official designator and a brand identifier for the past 18 years. IndiGo has also secured registration for the word mark 6E Link under multiple classes in 2015. Notably, 6E has become a dominant feature and exclusive to the Indigos brand and its associated services.

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The TTABlog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In an exhaustive 107-page opinion, the Board granted petitions for cancellation of two registrations on the Supplemental Register for the color pink applied to the entire surface of hip joint implants, on the ground of Section 2(e)(5) functionality. As to the availability of alternative "designs" (i.e., C5 Medical Werks, LLC v.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

2534, governs the trademark procedure, even though Trademark registration is not mandatory in Thailand. Designs: Any configuration, composition of lines or any special appearance used on a product Petty Patent: An invention that is new and capable of industrial application, as per Thai Patent law. The Trademark Act B.E

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Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2024

However, unconventional trademarks challenge traditional concepts of visual representation, leading to significant complexities in their registration, protection, and enforcement. Their essence lies in unique sensory elements that transcend conventional designs and embody distinctiveness in novel ways. A landmark case was the U.S.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There will be debates over whether generative AI is, for the purposes of copyright, a tool used by a human author or is an autonomous creator of works (see previously on this blog e.g. here , here , here and here ). Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Top 3 Kluwer Trademark Blog posts 1) Brothers in arms. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 8, 2025

Together, they build an extremely strong regime against counterfeiting by bringing infringing goods into the country or sending counterfeit goods out of it.This is a blog about how customs law actually influences trademark law in India; the mechanism of enforcement; and lastly, the issues and opportunities emerging from that interface.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This blog helps in understanding the multiple role that IPR plays in safeguarding the rights of gaming sector. Copyright do not require any formal registration. Introduction The gaming industry has experienced exceptional growth in recent years, embracing as a crucial position in the global marketplace.

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