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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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2021

Trade marks The Fashion Law Blog published a follow-up concerning the Puma vs Nike battle over Nike’s trade mark application for ‘footware’. Nike’s application for registration is also pending in several other countries, including Canada, Australia, and India.

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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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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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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The leaves are falling, the colours are changing, and we bring our latest catches from the blogs to you! TRADE MARKS According to Professor Barton Beebe of NYU School of Law, more than 77% of the 20,000 most common English words identically match a EUTM registration, and the remaining 23% of words have negative connotations.

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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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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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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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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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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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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

On 28 November 2022, the European Commission adopted proposals for a revised Regulation and Directive on industrial designs. The proposals, that are now sent to the European Parliament and Council for adoption, are aimed at modernizing the EU design system and the harmonized national design protection laws.

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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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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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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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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On February 5, 2022, China acceded to Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs. Inventors in China will thus be able to use the International Design System to file and protect their designs overseas with one procedure which will help them save time and money.

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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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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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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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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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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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Patent Trademark Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Can you copyright product designs and shapes? In addition to patents and trademarks, copyright registrations can be valuable in protecting certain products. Copyright registrations, therefore, may help to protect the 2-dimensional artwork of a design, the 3-dimensional shape of a product or a combination of both.

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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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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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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The top two entries will be awarded with some cash prizes and also with a chance to be published on the blog! The defendant had applied for registration of the ASTELLAZ PHARMACEUTICALS mark to which the plaintiff filed an opposition. The rectification petition was filed by the plaintiff who hold registration of the mark JAVA.

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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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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

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As a result, intellectual property refers to creations such as innovations, industrial product designs, literary and creative works, and symbols that are later used in business. As an artist or designer, one should be aware of two forms of intellectual property (IP) rights: copyright and Industrial design. Industrial Design.

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