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Identity Crisis: My Market, LLC Fights Batth Market’s Alleged Trademark Infringement

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

My Market, LLC, (Plaintiff) an Indiana-based convenience store operator, has initiated legal proceedings against Batth Markets, Inc. and Chhaterpal Singh (Defendants) for the unauthorized use of its trademarked business name. This trademark is used to identify My Markets services, particularly in the food industry.

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Marketing and IPR

IP and Legal Filings

A trade name is a name under which a company pursues its business and needs to be distinguished from the entity’s registered or legal name. Many countries require registering a trade name or business name in a special register. For a marketer, a brand is what represents the values of a company and aims to create awareness and trust.

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Trademark and Its Regulations

IP and Legal Filings

The registration of your product holds enormous significance as it ensures your mark isn’t misrepresented in the market, safeguards your goodwill, ensures control over advertising and branding, and the list can go on. It can be registered in a single class or multi-class. Conclusion.

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Africa IP highlights 2023: Trade marks

The IPKat

Today, it’s about the trade marks. February: In Nigeria, the Business Facilitation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, 2022 , was signed into law. The Plaintiff was the initial owner of the Trademark “HIT” for mosquito and insect repelling spray in the Tanzanian market but failed to renew its trade mark when it expired.

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The Interplay between Religious Sensitiveness and Trademark Law in India

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction A mark represents the institution or company to which it belongs and serves as a means of differentiating goods or services among individuals. Marks can be of various types i.e., word marks, service marks, logos, symbols, series marks, etc [1]. In Freudenberg Gala Household Ltd v.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

Relation to a foreign state” includes citizenship of a state, having a place of incorporation, one's main business activity or one's main source of income in that state. These rules were introduced in the 2021 amendment to Article 1360 of the Civil Code.

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copying competitor's website & reviews creates (c), TM, false advertising problems

43(B)log

The parties used to have an ongoing business relationship in which both companies outsourced clients to each other and engaged in regular communications regarding their business operations. That didn’t amount to a “reasonable expectancy” of future business which was interfered with by Boston Suburban.