IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademark owners frequently used cease and desist letters to pressure infringers to stop using their marks without authorization before taking legal action. The registration and management of trademarks was another essential component. Businesses ought to give priority to registering their trademarks.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 11, 2024

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. So, how do you approach this issue when your brand is caught in the middle of it?

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the ever-increasing presence of social media, including websites like YouTube where content can generate income, copyright infringement is escalating at alarming rates. Fortunately, obtaining a copyright registration is extremely quick and relatively inexpensive.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

We recommend hiring the services of an IP attorney who will help find the right name and guide you throughout the trademark registration process. Further, using legal assistance and adopting traditional enforcement strategies like a cease and desist notice may also help enforce trademark rights. Protecting brands.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Before you spend time and money marketing under that business name, you need to make sure it is legally a great name, one you can feel confident in using without running into an unexpected cease and desist request or trademark infringement litigation and the potential catastrophe of forced rebranding on a short time scale.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2023

Essential Benefits of Trademark Registration – Part 1 Imagine you’ve been using your business name, logo, or slogan for several years, building a good base of local customers. You make moves to expand your market, and suddenly you get a cease-and-desist letter from another business that has better rights to the trademark.

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Kashishipr

JULY 21, 2021

Proof of IP Ownership – IP Registration Certificate or Copyright Recordal Certificate is necessary. Online marketplaces, search engine results, and social media should be monitored regularly, and infringements acted on quickly. Takedown notices, cease and desist notices, etc.,

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Once a brand becomes popular, it is no longer necessary to use the actual brand name in posters and other forms of marketing; this may be accomplished by simply writing the product’s information with the trademark sign and flashing it on social media and other sites to increase its popularity.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Don’t overlook company social media accounts, domain names, and toll-free numbers, which may also serve as potential trademarks. pending or issued registrations) and those that are not.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2022

Hermes, the owner of the Birkin trademark and trade-dress in USA, promptly sent OpenSeas a cease-and-desist notice. Additionally, where trade-mark registration does not cover classes where NFTs would fall, how would common-law passing off actions stand to protect mark-owners?

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Garrigues Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Registrations will not prevent others per se from trying to enter the market with similar signs covering similar goods and services: you need to be vigilant and take into account the following ground rules. It is not that you in particular and your trademark are being targeted, but awareness on how to proceed yields value to your brand.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Defendants’ Response: The Defendants stated that they are not intending to use the marks ‘SAUNDARYA POTLI’ and ‘BABY ESSENTIALS’ and have undertaken so, in their reply to the cease-and-desist notice issued by the Plaintiff prior to filing the suit. This ensures that such terms are not monopolized by any single entity.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2023

The number of registrations with the US Copyright Office has been growing since the 1970s. The use of cease-and-desist letters is widespread too. Another aspect explored is that street art and graffiti have social norms. Social media are used by artists to spread info on bitting.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Rather than challenge a works public domain status in courtwhere they might face a public loss and a court-ordered fee awardsome rightsholders find it more effective (and economical) to rely on public statements, cease and desist letters, and convoluted legal arguments to chill potential users. The post Their Copyrights Expired.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. ” Nevertheless, the successor licensee sent DMCA takedown notices to Amazon targeting the registrant’s stripped-down sticker. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

This holding in Jack Daniel’s will likely discourage applications to register political and social messages, parodies, satire, jokes, mashups, memes, and other words or images that convey information, ideas, or viewpoints, as trademarks for dog toys, T-shirts, and other types of expressive merchandise.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

As Donald Trump used every available resource to ensure his tenancy at the most recognizable house in the United States was extended, some social media platforms had adopted an unorthodox approach to his accounts. Judge’s Opinion Was Just His Opinion?

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Despite a cease-and-desist letter from Grant, the video remained online, amassing millions of views before Grant filed his lawsuit. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. Electric Avenue” played during most of the video, unaltered and easily recognizable.

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