LexBlog IP

MARCH 3, 2023

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a plant intellectual property nerd , this Kat was delighted to get her hands on the new book Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2023), edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Anita Gogia is a IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On May 25, 2021 the Japan Patent Office (JPO) granted Nobuaki Kurokawa a trademark for his apparel brand named “CUGGL” for class 25 (clothing and footwear). Unfortunately for Gucci, its claim was not successful.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 14, 2022

Navigating Brand Protection and Trademarks for Social Media Influencers. Building a brand or business as an influencer on social media is not easy. Not only are you tasked with building a successful, recognizable brand, you’re building yourself as the brand. Making a brand out of a social media business.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Of those, inventors who make board games often go straight to patent filings and forget about the trademark analysis. This article considers a sub-category of trademark law that allows for some interesting board game protection. It serves as a powerful tool for brand recognition. Take, for instance, a Coca-Cola bottle.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The trademark infringement battle between Penn State and Vintage Brand over selling merchandise containing the school's trademarks raises the issue of whether designs on apparel serve as source identifiers for the goods themselves — and could significantly affect trademark law and the merchandising industry, say Cheryl Howard and David Ervin at Crowell (..)

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 25, 2021

Several times, we see that luxury brands come up with limited edition products, whether it is cars, watches, cosmetics, chocolates, electronics, etc., Protection for Limited Edition Products under Trademark Law. Even in other jurisdictions, design rights last only for a limited term and cannot be renewed.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Eliezer How to Legally Protect your Board Game with Intellectual Property Law Table of Contents: Copyright Law Design Patents Trademarks and Trade Dress Utility Patents Limitations of Protection Say there is a game that’s been around. Learn more about Trademark law for board games and Trade Dress protection.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Keep in mind the generators are trained on existing material, including things that are protected by copyright and trademark law and registration and patents. There have been some court decisions on this precise topic, but the law is not completely settled. This isn’t limited to logo design. AI isn’t perfect.

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azrights

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Last week’s newsletter How to avoid the biggest brand management mistakes , highlighted that the role of our business name and signs like logos, taglines, characters, or sounds is to enable buyers to recognise that it’s us. The cancellation of Lacoste’s trademark paved the way for Crocodile to register its own crocodile logo in New Zealand.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Some IP Thoughts on Dolce & Gabbana’s SS23 Collection Curated by Kim Kardashian, and other Fashion Heritage at Fashion Week By Felicia Caponigri During Milan Fashion Week held last week, the Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana debuted their Spring/Summer 2023 ready-to-wear collection. copyright law.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2023

It provides an unmatched degree of design and layout possibilities. Image Sources : Istock] Metaverse- a Magnet to Fashion Brands Virtual worlds provide fashion brands with the opportunity to significantly cut down on the excessive resource consumption of lifestyle and create sustainability.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fashion designers and artists showcase their creative genius through conceptual fashion shows and apparel collections. Since fashion designers, textile manufactures, apparel companies and artists produce creations of the human intellect, Intellectual Property Rights play a significant role in the fashion industry. dollars in the USA.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. Corporations must establish online identities, such as logos, slogans, product names, and brands, to build consumer awareness, loyalty, and trust.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Staple, who has a history of working for Nike and is the registered owner of the Staple Pigeon brand (seen on Lotas shoes), was left out of the litigation between Nike and Lotas. This is strange, as he was a co-partner in the Lotas product and his trademark pigeon is part of the trade dress of the allegedly infringing shoe.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In general, any clothing, including costumes, is not protected by copyright laws. In Canada, under section 64(2) of the Copyright Act , it is not an infringement of copyright to reproduce the design of a “useful article”, so long as more than 50 copies are made. In Pyrrha Design Inc. There are notable exceptions.

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The Second Circuit will consider what constitutes an "expressive" work in trademark law when it hears a controversial designer's appeal of a ruling the Vans footwear brand obtained to temporarily block a shoe line endorsed by the rapper Tyga.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The design of Hershey’s cone-shaped small chocolate “Kisses” has been a registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) since 1996. When it comes to food designs, how far can a trademark go? On September 28, 2021 , The Hershey Co.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indeed, when searching the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) database, the signature pose has been registered for many industries, including eyewear and accessories, clocks and watches, leathers, bags, clothing, footwear, games, entertainment, restaurants, etc.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Store layouts is a type of non-conventional trademark. A store layout is the design of a store’s space and the placement of various items in a particular area. Surprisingly enough, store layouts play a crucial role in boosting the brand image, consumer favourableness and profitability of the business.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Trademarks indicate the origin of a product. While they commonly consist of a brand name or logo, the shape of a product may also be an indication of its origin. For being registered as a trademark, the 3D shape of a product must be shown to have an inherent or acquired distinctive character. Registration took two years.

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IPilogue

MARCH 6, 2023

Katie Graham is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On December 26, 2022, the Japanese IP High Court dismissed an appeal from Christian Louboutin (“Louboutin”), a shoe designer known for its iconic red-bottom heels, in its action against Japanese shoe designer, Eizo Collection Co.,

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2024

INTRODUCTION For consumer identification and brand protection a crucial mechanism is important which is served by trade mark law. Like fast for food services, the word fast is descriptive for quick services, making it challenging to obtain trademark protection. Computer of computers, medicines names.

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The IPKat

MAY 11, 2024

A Kat reflecting on emerging branding strategies for plants. Why does the patent use a different name from the registered trademark? And what can this tell us about branding strategy for plants? These denominations cannot be registered as trademarks - for example, under Article 7.1(m) Seeing red? Images from Pixabay.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

One of the first enacted changes concerned the rules for calculation of the compensation paid to the patent owner in the event that an invention, utility model, or industrial design is being used without the patent owner’s authorization. The list includes such well-known brands as Apple, HP, Panasonic, Siemens, Tesla, and Volkswagen.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2022

Many people associate brands with particular colors – if you think of Tiffany & Co., you think of its famous robins-egg blue boxes and branding; if you think of Barbie, you can see the bright pink that came with so many childhood toys. The first company to trademark a color was Owens-Corning.

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Intepat

JUNE 25, 2024

However, as the contemporary industry and commerce progressed, consumers began associating trademarks with the quality of products and services. Hence following strategies can be adopted to maintain quality control A precise specification is necessary to determine which products may be associated with a brand and which cannot.

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Larson & Larson

JULY 13, 2023

What is a Trademark? A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design that identifies the source of a particular product or service. Trademarks protect things like company names, logos, slogans and the unique “trade dress” of products. Patents expire after a set term; trademarks can be renewed indefinitely.

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IPilogue

JULY 27, 2021

French champagne producers are protected by intellectual property rules established by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that gives them a monopoly over the use of their brands. While trademark law protecting geographical indications is fairly straightforward, Article 20 caused a fair amount of political debate this past decade.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 24, 2022

By establishing a brand name, a service provider in the hospitality industry can benefit from having many customers and build a good reputation. Here in this article, we shall shed light on the relationship between Trademark Law and the hospitality sector in India. The same is then safeguarded under trademark law.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When we talk about building brand image and attraction, fashion companies put in a lot of time, money, effort, and hard work. Trade dress protection falls under trademark law as the design functions as a trademark, i.e., identifying a product emerging from a specific fashion house or fashion designer.

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Corsearch

APRIL 5, 2024

Demonstrate value: Stay on top of dockets and use data to demonstrate the value of your trademark efforts to the business. Portfolio management: Regularly audit trademarks and watches to ensure alignment with business objectives. Brand voice: Provide templates to outside counsel for demand letters to maintain brand voice consistency.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Ramsey is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. She writes and teaches in the trademark law area, and was one of the signatories of the First Amendment Professors amicus brief filed in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

On June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision held that a trademark claim concerning “a squeaky, chewable dog toy designed to look like a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey” which, as a play on words, turns the words “Jack Daniels” into “Bad Spaniels” and the descriptive phrase “Old No. 1125(c)(3)(A). 1125(c)(3)(A).

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IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

These branded goods are sold without the trademark owner’s consent for a much lower price than that of the official retailer. The consequences of such so-called “parallel imports” are well-known: the foreign brand and its official Chinese distributor suffer economic losses and the brand is diluted by cheap sales of parallel imports.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Whilst the SPB Team does not blindly follow trends, we are advising all our trademark clients (even the more “conservative” ones) now to file trademarks covering goods and services related to the Metaverse. Here is why: New opportunities for growing your brand. Why you need new trademark registrations now.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

Whilst the SPB Team does not blindly follow trends, we are advising all our trademark clients (even the more “conservative” ones) now to file trademarks covering goods and services related to the Metaverse. Here is why: New opportunities for growing your brand. Why you need new trademark registrations now.

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