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Why Distance Is Not Quite a Dead Issue in Trademark Litigation

IP Watchdog

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a service mark owner with all of its physical assets located along the Pacific coast could maintain a suit for service mark infringement against a company using a similar mark, on the same services, whose physical assets were all located along the Atlantic coast.

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Protect Your Goodwill: Allowing Third Parties to Use Your Trademarks

JD Supra Law

Insurers naturally allow their agents and other third parties to use their trademarks and service marks. To help protect your significant investment in your intellectual property, consider the following principles before allowing third parties to use your trademarks.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.).

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Protection of Trademarks in Philippines

IP and Legal Filings

The Philippines has laws and policies that generally support a conducive intellectual property (IP) environment, but enforcement is irregular and inconsistent. Several considerations are important for effective management of intellectual property (IP) rights in the Philippines. Introduction. For example, U.S.

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Trademark: What’s In it for You?

Velocity of Content

But trademarks are not mentioned in that foundational document. This blog has already discussed the differences between copyright and trademark– which are, unfortunately, too frequently confused as two alternative ways of protecting non-technical IP. See discussion at this blog for a longer discussion of the differences.)

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Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities

IIPRD

Abstract This paper delves into the profound integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into contemporary life and its impact on intellectual property rights (IPR). This marks a significant shift in the prevailing paradigm. The commercial and social impact of this is going to be tremendous.

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Deceptive Similarity in Trademark

IP and Legal Filings

Trademark is a kind of intellectual property which is capable of being represented graphically, it can be any word, design, symbol, phrase, design, shape, packaging of goods etc. Trademarks are used to distinguish one person’s goods and services from that of others. certification mark etc.