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In a 2018 decision (H29 (Wa) 123, February 14, 2018), the Tokyo District Court denied a trademark infringement claim, finding that “retail services or wholesale services for processed food” are not similar to the goods “plum/blueberry jam.” The retail services were registered in connection with the mark JOYFARM in Katakana,More
As of January 3, 2020, companies and designers from Israel can use the Hague System to protect their industrial designs in Israel and/or in any of the other member countries of the Hague System. And, foreign companies can also designate Israel on their international applications for industrial designs.More
On November 13, 2019, the French government published Order No. 2019-1169, followed by an implementing Decree on December 9, 2019. The purpose of this regulation was to incorporate into French law the EU Directive 2015/2436 and to simplify certain aspects of French trademark law and procedure.More
By Sahil Yadav
Sky Plc & Ors v SkyKick UK Ltd & Anr (Case C-371/18)
The Court of Justice of the European Union recently issued its decision in the referral from the UK High Court in the Sky v.More
By Sahil Yadav
The EU General Court recently confirmed the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)’s decision to invalidate the trademark registration of the well-known and popular Rubik’s Cube pursuant to a decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) that it was not registrable as a trademark under Article 7(1)(e)(ii) because the shape of the mark involves a technical function.More
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. v. Chongqing Hengsheng Xintai Trading Co., Ltd. et al. (Sup. People’s Ct., Civil Retrial Judgment (2019) No. 138, September 23, 2019)
We remind our clients of an important decision issued in September 2019,More
By Michael J. Antonucci
As of December 1, 2019, it became necessary for online service providers to renew their DMCA agent designation with the U.S. Copyright Office in order to avail themselves of the protections offered by the DMCA Safe Harbor.
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By Allison Strickland Ricketts
The USPTO reversed itself on defining what will be considered an acceptable email address for the trademark owner. In revised guidance issued on February 14, 2020 – one day before the February 15 implementation date of the new rule – it announced that trademark applicants and registrants may provide an “email address of their choice,” so long as it is not identical to the email address provided for the attorney who is listed in the application or registration.More
The USPTO has reversed itself on defining what will be considered an acceptable email address for the trademark owner. In revised guidance issued on February 14, 2020 – one day before the February 15 implementation date of the new rule – it announced that trademark applicants and registrants may provide an “email address of their choice,” so long as it is not identical to the email address provided for the attorney who is listed in the application or registration.More
Ricardo Media Inc. v. Inventive Software LLC, 2019 USPQ2d 311355 (T.T.A.B. 2019)
In a recent precedential opinion, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) declined to apply the Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents to recognizable personal names,More