IP Hot Shorts November 2020
It has been a constant and collective effort of The IP Press Team to bring to its readers the most recent news in the field […]
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IP Hot Shorts October 2020
It has been a constant and collective effort of The IP Press Team to bring to its readers the most recent news in the field […]
Report on the workshop on trade marks by Ms. Shumi Wasandi
The workshop session on Trade Marks (Applications and Oppositions): practice and procedures started at 4:45 pm IST on the 31st October, 2020. The meeting was […]
Counterfeits to Burberry’s Haymarket Check Trademark under Legal Scanner- yet again!
In its 164 years of existence, Burberry has time and again defended its “haymarket check” trademark from counterfeiters across the globe. If the description did […]
IP hot shorts in September 2020
It has been a constant and collective effort of The IP Press Team to bring to its readers the most recent news in the field […]
IP Dialogue Writing on the issue of trademark infringement and passing off
Mr. Omar Hussain owns a company named Blindt Co. incorporated under Indian Companies Act, which is very well known in India for their cornflakes and […]
Mahindra’s Roxor Versus Fiat Chrysler’s Jeep: US Trade Dress Infringement Case
Are you a car addict?? Want to read something about cars?? Then you are at the right place…This post covers the Trade dress infringement suit […]
A Battle between luxury mark and mark of a common-average man
Analysis of BMW AG v. Om Balajee Automobile (India) Pvt Ltd What do you understand by the term ‘brand’? Is it a connotation to a […]
Emojis as intellectual property right: registering speech formats
“The English Language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts so I’m incorporating emoji into my speech to better express myself, Winky-face” […]
Prohibited Trademarks: What words and terms could lead to denial of your Trademark registration?
Thinking of a new innovative business model? A new start-up or product name that could set you apart from the crowd of the ever-growing additions […]
Death of a Distinctive mark by Genericide
Discussion of Aktiebolaget Volvo & ors v. Mantis technologies pvt. Ltd. & ors.[29 June, 2020] A mark is an image or face of the goods […]
Turning Deaf: Musings on the phonetic similarity of trademarks in Indian Courts
Introduction Imagine a triangle consisting of a producer, a good or service and a consumer. At the centroid, lies a trademark which tells the consumer […]
Leeching as a mode of Trademark Infringement
The Rationale behind Trademark Protection Just as how humans are identified by their names, the ideas materialized by humans deserve to be identified by a […]
Trademarkability of “.com” marks with generic terms
We often argue that generic words can’t be trademarked because it tends to be used in the same industry by the other proprietors to refer […]
Doom’s Day- An End to 150 years of Good yearicism
USPTO v. Booking.com[1]This post is in continuation to our previous posts covered here and here. The day has come and the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of […]
Genuine Artistic Motive Wins Over Trademark Infringement Allegation
The right to Freedom of speech in general enables us to express ourselves freely in different forms. Trademark law, on the other hand, protects the […]
How the addition of “.com” to a generic word, can be protectable under US trademark law
USPTO v. Booking.com B.V[1] As my colleague, in his article “Trademark Incapacity Doctrine or Primary significance test: Which favours Generic mark to be recognized as […]
Pitbull yells out a trademark for himself! How Trade marking sounds have come a long way.
The jurisprudence of trademark laws, all around the world, has categorized a sound mark as a non-conventional trademark. It is usually seen as a trade […]
Trademark Incapacity Doctrine or Primary significance test: Which favors Generic mark to be recognized as trademark?
The principal purpose of a trademark is to act as a ‘source signifier’ and not ‘product signifier’. A mark qualifies as a trademark when a […]
Trademark as a vehicle of social divide
It was Shakespeare who, through Romeo, had thrown caution the wind, and questioned the significance of a name, for a Rose, called as anything but […]