IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 28, 2022

Tiffany is world renowned jewellery brand famous for selling diamond engagement rings since 19 th century. It owns multiple trade mark registrations for the word “Tiffany” in connection with “Decorative Art Objects Made in Whole or in Part of Precious or Semiprecious Metals” among others. ” The Sports Auth.,

Fair Use 52

Fair Use False Advertising Trademark Branding 52

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kaira’s brand AMUL is internationally renowned and India’s largest food brand. First, Kaira provided evidence of the goodwill that the AMUL brand and designs have acquired globally and in Canada. Registration of the AMUL trademarks gave Kaira the exclusive right to use the trademark in Canada.

False Advertising 40

False Advertising Social Media Trademark Branding 40

43(B)log

DECEMBER 1, 2022

MGFB has a federal registration for FLORA-BAMA for “bar and restaurant services” and several entertainment services, including “social entertainment events,” live musical performances, and “competitions for fish throwing.” Deliberate copying was irrelevant. Viacom made the Jersey Shore spin-off MTV Floribama Shore.

Artistic Work 62

Artistic Work Television Trademark Trademark Law 62

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Eventually, Johnson and Johnson announced that it would no longer enforce their patents for Bedaquiline (brand name: Sirturo) which is used in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 134 low- and middle-income countries. The rejection order is authored by Dr. Latika Dawara, Asst. HULM Entertainment v. First, in Toyota v.

IP 124

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Copying may be directly costless to the knowledge creator, but knowledge transfer is not, and who is initiating may affect what’s going on here: knowledge transfer encodes voluntariness which fits with Cicero but not with a lot of the copying to which people object today. Is that any different from what we see in other contexts?

False Advertising 44

False Advertising Trademark Advertising Advertising 44

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

How to survey arbitrariness/TM function: Washingmachine.com in booking.com—maybe along with not sure we also need the option “neither a common name nor a brand name.” There’s a strain of marketing literature that uses scanner data: tries to measure effect of brand extension on parent brand. This isn’t wholly empirical.

Trademark 70

Trademark Marketing Marketing Advertising 70

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

23, 2022) Healthvana operates a health app, Healthvana, and has a trademark (registration) for use in connection with software and software as a service. Healthvana sued in May 2020 for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising in violation of both federal and state law, as well for cybersquatting under ACPA.

False Advertising 62

False Advertising Marketing Marketing Branding 62