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IP Due Diligence: Issues in M&A Transactions

Traverse Legal Blog

A main focus in most M&A transactions involves conducting intellectual property (IP) due diligence, including patent due diligence in order to properly assess risk involved in the potential transaction. All too often these issues come up for the first time in due diligence.

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IP Licensing for Business Companies & Organizations – How to Do it Right?

Kashishipr

IP licensing provides business companies and organizations with additional or core revenue streams, which enables them to increase brand awareness, enhance their overall reputation, and extend their offerings (products or services) into new geographies and markets across the globe cost-effectively. Understanding the IP License. Bottom Line.

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How To Register a Trademark

Patent Trademark Blog

Anyone can file a trademark application with the USPTO. The challenge is not in filling out a USPTO online trademark form, but in doing the pre-filing due diligence necessary to ensure a smoother examination process. Is your mark too similar to a registered trademark? You might have filed one yourself.

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An Explorative Study on the Liability of Domain Name Registrars with reference to Trademark Infringement.

IP and Legal Filings

Thus, there is an unmistakable similarity between domain names and trademarks, which is why domain names have been granted trademark recognition and protection. Reliance is also a registered trademark, and as such, it is protected from trademark infringement.

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The Everlasting Trademark Battle of USPTO

IP and Legal Filings

With growing businesses atmosphere and more strong due diligence in terms of getting aware of their rights, there has been a huge influx in registering of their IP assets. The recent trends have seen an increase in the filing of trademark applications by various proprietors.

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Groundless threat of trademark infringement: Is Section 142 a means to combat trademark bullying?

Selvam & Selvam Blog

Through this, the former aims to monopolize the market and kick out any remotely similar business operating under the mark. A reading of the statute indicates that this provision focuses on registered trademarks and the related infringement. However, in the case of Dolphin Laboratories Pvt.

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UNABLE TO REGISTER YOR TRUE BRAND DUE TO PRIOR IDENTICAL REGISTRATIONS? HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO

Selvam & Selvam Blog

To add more clarity to this, ‘Trademark squatting’ – in which one person obtains registration for a trademark which does not actually belong to them nor do they have any right/ claim over the same – has evolved into an actual business today. Can the Examiners be blamed for granting registrations to such infringing brands?