IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The China National Intellectual Property Association (CNIPA) has recently published a draft amendment to the Chinese Trademark Law. If adopted in its current version and without further modifications, this amendment would have a considerable impact on many aspects of trademark law and practice in China.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

For example, whereas in the past, both unregistered and registered trademarks did not need to be translated into French, under Bill 96, only registered trademarks will be exempt from translation into French. Currently, it takes approximately two years for a trademark application to mature to registration in Canada.

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Kashishipr

MARCH 2, 2022

Your Trademark Application gets approved, and you receive your registration certificate. Don’t let that Trademark Registration certificate fool you. Therefore, we can say that failing to safeguard your registered trademark adequately would lead you at risk of forfeiting your exclusive rights.

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Garrigues Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

How does the registration process work? If everything is correct, the trademark is published in the Official Industrial Property Gazette (BOPI). If no oppositions are filed, the SPTO will check whether the trademark comes under any of the absolute grounds for refusal established in Trademarks Law 17/2001 (Trademarks Law).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

The Offices agreed with these assessments and did not believe that changes to intellectual property laws, or to the Offices’ registration and recordation practices, are necessary or advisable at this time. The USPTO has provided guidance on these issues and will continue to work with stakeholders to identify additional needs.

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What is the new deadline to respond to trademark Office Actions? When you’ve practiced trademark law long enough, you take certain things for granted. And, until recently, trademark Office Action deadlines were not extendable. Post-registration Office Actions will not be subject to this new deadline.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

Here are a few productive questions to ask: Do your registrations cover your reality? Or perhaps your business has expanded or evolved, and the scope of your registrations ignores some now-crucial products or services. Are you monitoring your trademarks in their natural habitat? It misses you! Stay tuned!

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

You can apply for trademark registration online, the process for which is fairly straightforward. However, as simple as the trademark registration process may seem, picking the right trademark is no easy nut to crack. This is where you need a trademark lawyer or agent to step in. Who is a trademark lawyer?

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

A critical issue to be addressed is whether these limited-edition products can get protection under Intellectual Property (IP) law, just as regular products do, and if yes, then which is the most appropriate form of IP Protection ? Protection for Limited Edition Products under Trademark Law. In essence: ‘use it or lose it.’

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Many companies exploit renowned person identities without obtaining proper consent, leading intellectual property experts to advocate for the safeguarding of image rights through registration under Intellectual Property laws.

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

The recent draft amendment of the Chinese trademark law seems to finally zero in on trademark squatters, as described in my previous blog here ). The new regulations, if approved as drafted, will make it more difficult for squatters to steal others’ trademark by abusing the first-to-file system in force in China.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

As a trademark law firm, we represent a wide array of clients but predominantly focus on helping small business owners protect their intellectual property. In recent years, trademark scams have proliferated and become increasingly problematic, particularly for small business owners. About Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Tech giant Apple has recently filed a lawsuit against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and Director Kathi Vidal over the Office’s refusal to register Apple’s “SMART KEYBOARD” trademark based on genericness. Apple asks the district court to require USPTO to approve its SMART KEYBOARD mark registration.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

More and more companies are entering the Metaverse leading to a trend towards increased filings of trademarks in the “virtual” classes. This blog has reported on this trend here and here. Why you need new trademark registrations now. In such cases, a trademark registration in Classes 09, 35, 41 and 42 can be decisive.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 12, 2022

Therefore, the prime role of such hashtags needs to be assessed in line with the Trademark Law to deduce whether they qualify for trademark protection. Therefore, if the hashtag is inherently distinctive, it would support and ease registration, and if not, additional efforts may be needed to amass publicity and extensive use.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Morgan is believed to be the only car shape accepted by the Alicante, Spain-based registry as qualifying for legal protection under the EU Trademark Law. Registration took two years. The post 3D Shape Trademark on Cars appeared first on Blog | Kashish IPR | Intellectual Property Rights Law Firm.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 15, 2022

In this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog, Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss Ohio State University’s trademark registration for the word THE. Read more about this case on the IP Law Blog here. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel here.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2024

Recently Lupin Atlantis Holdings SA secured trademark registrations for three colour combinations for its inhalers. However, it is noteworthy that all the cited precedents had a distinctive niche in the market and they were well-known, a requirement under trademark law. Sabeeh Ahmad. (For The first (Application no.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 28, 2024

The blog will address the legal protection of film titles and answer the big question of whether anyone can make another DDLJ. These registrations aid in allocating precedence. The problems arises that mere registration is not enough to grant legal protection, which is why the copyright becomes a necessity.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The rightsowner has trademark registrations for the tree-shaped outline: Armed with protectable rights in tree outlines, Car-Freshner has turned into a serial plaintiff, though this is my first time blogging them in-depth. The contributory trademark infringement claim survives a motion to dismiss.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 24, 2022

Therefore, to protect your business in the hospitality industry, you must seek protection via Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) , specifically by registering your hotel or restaurant brand name and logo as trademarks. Here in this article, we shall shed light on the relationship between Trademark Law and the hospitality sector in India.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Acquiring State Trademarks The most obvious (and widespread) option to protect a cannabis trademark is to obtain trademark registrations in all states where the mark is being used. In trademark law, the first use of a mark within a territory typically establishes trademark ownership in that territory.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

You can apply for trademark registration online, the process for which is fairly straightforward. However, as simple as the trademark registration process may seem, picking the right trademark is no easy nut to crack. This is where the role of trademark lawyer in India becomes crucial.

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Here are a few productive questions to ask: Do your registrations cover your reality? Or perhaps your business has expanded or evolved, and the scope of your registrations ignores some now-crucial products or services. Are you monitoring your trademarks in their natural habitat? It misses you! Stay tuned!

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IIPRD

AUGUST 27, 2022

The instant order of the General Court proves wrong the false assumptions that the shape mark is dead under the trademark law based on the doctrine of aesthetic functionality. trademark law which was later borrowed and adopted in a more limited sense in the European trademark law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Emojico has trademark registrations in the word “emoji” for a ridiculously broad range of product categories–from (I’m not making this up) ship hulls to penis enlargers–and it then licenses the word to product manufacturers and defendants ensnared in its enforcement net. ” That’s true.

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JIPL Online

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

If the title sounds familiar, you are part of the reason Booking.com successfully trademarked “Booking.com” while paving the way for owners of similar marks to receive trademark protection. com” does not make “booking” non-generic for trademark registration when it becomes “Booking.com.” The Decision.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 4, 2021

Can we Trademark QR Codes? QR codes by themselves are unable to be trademarked since Trademark Law only covers the things that allow the public to identify your goods and services easily, such as names, logos, slogans, sounds, or colors. There is also no public interest in refusing the registration of the sign.

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Garrigues Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

of the implementing regulations of the Trademark Law , applications for invalidity must include the following: The particulars of the applicant and of its representative if the application is filed through the representative. The number of the mark for which invalidity is sought (contested registration) and the name of its owner.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

More and more companies are entering the Metaverse leading to a trend towards increased filings of trademarks in the “virtual” classes. This blog has reported on this trend here and here. Why you need new trademark registrations now.

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Intepat

JULY 4, 2024

In this blog we will be looking at the challenges of deploying AI in the trademark disputes and the advisable steps under the guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence Based Tools which can be implemented to deal with the obstacles. However, experts agree that AI enhances human decision-making rather than replacing it.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A month later, the restaurant found an advertisement posted by Meng for the sale of the registration of the JU DIAN & Design Mark for $100,000. Two sections recently added to Canada’s Trademark Act of 1985 (“the Act ”) mention bad faith. million dollars for Beijing Judian to purchase the mark from him. Beijing Judian refused.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 18, 2022

TSR LLC’s position is that they are entitled to own and use both the word marks “TSR” (the name of the original company that published the first iteration of D&D) and “Star Frontiers”, since WOTC allowed registration in these marks to lapse in the 2000s. However, a proceeding like that between WOTC and TSR LLC can suggest otherwise.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Spanish government has approved a draft bill to reform the three main industrial property laws: the Trademark Law, the Industrial Design Law and the Patent Law. Trademark Law. Patent Law. For further information, please contact the author.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 10, 2023

The use of a trademark is crucial to preserve the rights in the mark. However, whereas in the US the statement of use is essential to maintain the registration, in the EU, it does not exist. In other words, it could be said that it is the first commandment of trademark law. Let’s take a look.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 17, 2022

Here are a few reasons why content creators and social media influencers should consider registering their IP: IP registration helps establish ownership of the IP assets, which, in turn, helps enforce rights in the scenario of a legal dispute. In general, domain names are business or brand names followed by.org,com,in,gov,net, etc.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Statutory protection of trademark rights in India is administered by the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, a government agency which reports to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Conclusion.

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