Brands Design Patent Public Domain 
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Utility patents are for functional inventions. Design patents protect the look of something functional, regardless of whether the functional aspects are new. Because of this, a popular use of design patents is to protect the outside of common consumer products. What’s more common than the written word?
Greenspoon Marder LLP
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
When American consumers hear the term UGG, do they associate that term with UGG brand boots or with any sheepskin boots? Certain marks may once have been legally protected trademarks that subsequently lost their protection as trademarks because the marks entered the public domain by becoming generic terms through public usage.
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The IPKat
MAY 29, 2023
Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs. Partridge, offers a view on the overlaps between trade marks and domain names. The chapter is focused on the US jurisprudence and the rules of Domain Name Dispute Resolution at the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. Is blockchain useful for pharmaceuticals?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. Is blockchain useful for pharmaceuticals?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
MAY 7, 2021
Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance. Is blockchain useful for pharmaceuticals?
43(B)log
JUNE 24, 2022
Other IP rights: utility patent creates presumption of functionality; wonders about whether presence of non-TM IP protection for ornamental features—design patent, ©--might create a presumption of mere ornamentality w/o further evidence of source signification. Yet the company is aggressive against anyone using that term.
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