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Use It or Lose It: How to Acquire and Protect your Trademarks

IPilogue

Trademarks are an excellent way to protect your brand. do not protect the goods themselves, but rather they protect your brand. For example, the word LEGO and the LEGO logo function as trademarks because they identify the brand. To some extent trademarks can be protected without registration. What can be a Trademark?

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Trademark Abandonment: Causes and Consequences

IP and Legal Filings

Trademark rights are based on actual use, not merely registration of the mark. A company will lose its trademark rights if it discontinues its operations, ceases production of a product, or stops using a particular logo or slogan. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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CRITERIA TO AVOID CANCELLATION FOR LACK OF USE OF A TRADEMARK IN COLOMBIA

LexBlog IP

Exclusive rights over a trademark in Colombia arise from registration. Also, when holding a trademark registration in Colombia, the obligation arises for its owner to use the trademark in commerce, beginning three (3) years from the date when registration was granted.

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Precedential No. 34: "IFG" Fails to Function as a Trademark For Live Plants Because It's a Varietal Name

The TTABlog

"This notion reflects the Board’s earlier decisions that if the term is used as a designation of source (i.e., a trademark) and there is a different varietal designation, the term may be registrable." law) and purported prior trademark use? PVP certificates under U.S. Moreover, "[t]o hold otherwise would be a breach of U.S.

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Battle of the spiritual and holistic therapists over ‘Archangel Alchemy’ trade mark

The IPKat

Stone had began marketing an online ‘metaphysical education’ course under the brand ‘ARCHANGEL ALCHEMY’ in or around July 2019, with the course first starting on 23 September 2019 and running until 21 September 2020. A counterclaim for passing off and a declaration of invalidity of Stone’s trade mark was also submitted.

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MYTH VS. REALITY: CAN YOU PATENT AN IDEA?

Intepat

For instance, if a patent has been granted in India but not in the United States, anyone can legally use, sell, or manufacture the invention in the United States without permission. MYTH 5: IT’S FREE TO USE IF IT IS ON THE INTERNET Anything available online is not free for public use.

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WIPIP 2022, Session 6 (TM)

43(B)log

But trademark law elsewhere extends far past product/service names to things like a building’s layout, slogans, uniforms, and other aspects of the “product” itself; indeed, the PTO has granted registration for NKJV for Bibles, referring to the New King James Version. Will people assume co-branding? Confusion as to source?