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Among the first things you think when you are building your startup, surely logo and business name come right after the product or service you plan to sell. Based on your choices, you may or may not have a trademark, even though nowadays business owners…
This week you have probably noticed some news around the new podcast Meghan Markle has planned to launch soon and her attempt to trademark the centuries-old word “Archetypes”. She signed a deal with Spotify back in 2020 and now is trying to…
From its origins in France, the perfume industry has had a reputation for secrecy since the sixteenth century where the masters carefully guarded their formulas. This has probably influenced the perfumes to be protected usually by trade secrets. However…
Finding out that someone is infringing your trademark certainly bad news. There has been an economic damage to your brand as well as now you have to spend time and sometimes even money to stop the infringement. But what about new entrepreneurs, how can…
In Re VOX POPULI REGISTRY LTD. Before Lourie, Dyk , and Stoll, Circuit Judges . Appeal from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Stylizing an otherwise generic character mark using ubiquitous lettering does not make it a source identifier. Vox is…
On November 16, 2021, Miramax, LLC (“Miramax”) brought claims of breach of contract, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and unfair competition against director Quentin Tarantino. A copy of the complaint can be found here . Miramax…
Try typing COVID in your search engines and you will likely get billions of results. Meanwhile a bit more than 2 years before, this and the coronavirus word were practically unknown. As Einstein once said “In the middle of difficulty lies…
A part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2021 passed on 27 December 2020, was the Trademark Modernization Act which comes in effect in few weeks. This update to the Lanham Act aims to combat the rise in scamming and fraudulent trademark filings…
You have probably heard a lot about NFTs lately, but what are they indeed? Non-fungible token many might answer, but this still doesn’t make you understand what they represent. Fungible items have no difference between them, think of a bitcoin for…
During October 2020, Playboy filed a lawsuit against Fashion Nova over a Halloween costume which looked copied from the iconic Playboy costume. Not only the costumes looked very similar with details such as cuffs, collar, corset, bunny ears and even the…
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the Facebook company changing its name into Meta as part of his plan to focus on developing a virtual world. While the history of rebranding knows successful and futureless occurrences, today we are going to focus on…
One of the reasons that the majority of countries in the world apply the “first to file” system, including the European Union and China, must be that it’s and easy system to administer. Determination on who was the first to register and…
