Delhi High Court rejected Radico Khaitan Limited (“Radico”) claim for exclusivity over the numeral “8” under its registered trademark “8 PM”. The Court held that prima facie there exists no actionable similarity between Radico trademark “8 PM” (for whiskey) and Carlsberg India Private Limited trademark “PALONE 8″ (for beer) and mere similarity in the manner […]
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Delhi High Court rejected Radico Khaitan Limited (“Radico”) claim for exclusivity over the numeral “8” under its registered trademark “8 PM”. The Court held that prima facie there exists no actionable similarity between Radico trademark “8 PM” (for whiskey) and Carlsberg India Private Limited trademark “PALONE 8″ (for beer) and mere similarity in the manner […]
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Vijfhuizen, November 2-4, 2011 At the IFTF 2011 for the first time CIOPORA was presented at a large-scale trade fair with an own booth, kindly sponsored by HPP Exhibitions. CIOPORA’s participation in the exhibition was welcomed by member-exhibitors and visitors of the show. President of CIOPORA Andrea Mansuino opened the event in a ribbon-cutting ceremony […]
Taiwan became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on January 1, 2002. Under the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), member countries are obligated to protect works of the nationals of other members. Therefore, if the client is a citizen of the WTO members, their works are entitled to […]
Italian Legislative Decree 131/2010, also known as the corrective decree of the Italian Industrial Property Code (IPC), entered into force on 02.09.2010. The most important changes include the interventions in Section II of Part III “Measures against piracy”, which also reintroduced regulations which had previously been abrogated. Article 144 of the IPC, as replaced by […]
After the amendments of the Law on trademarks and geographical indications from 2010, the well-known and the famous trademarks on the territory of Republic of Bulgaria were left without a register, as the most important issue – the lack of clarity and access to information about which are the trademarks and signs announced with the […]
Geneva, October 20, 2011 The celebration of the 50th anniversary of UPOV in Geneva was a get-together of who-is-who in Plant Variety Protection. More than 150 representatives of UPOV members, the management and the staff of the UPOV office and of WIPO, as well as several representatives of observers attended the celebration of UPOV´s 50th […]
Geneva, October 18, 2011 Secretary General of CIOPORA asks UPOV to define the key-term “propagating material” in a harmonized and sufficiently broad way. In the last meeting of the UPOV CAJ-AG (CAJ-Advisory Group), the Secretary General of CIOPORA asked UPOV to define the key-term “propagating material” in a harmonized and sufficiently broad way. Basis for […]
We learnt recently that the legal opinions about whether “keyword advertising” constitutes infringement between the Fair Trade Commission and the Intellectual Property Court in Taiwan are different. The Fair Trade Commission follows the Fair Trade Law and focuses on whether the “keyword advertising” constitutes unfair competition or infringements of commercial goodwill by using other’s marks […]
The recruitment process for appointment of 248 new Patent Examiners has been completed by the Patent & Trademark Office. The increase in the number of patent examiners by 248 will help in clearing the backlog of pending patent applications as these examiners are together expected to examine about 30,000 more applications per year.
The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal filed by Dhariwal Industries Ltd. and Rasiklal Manikchand Dhariwal (appellants) that raises questions of legality of an ex parte decree passed by the trial court and affirmed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh. The trial court held that appellants do not have right to use the […]
The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal filed by Dhariwal Industries Ltd. and Rasiklal Manikchand Dhariwal (appellants) that raises questions of legality of an ex parte decree passed by the trial court and affirmed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh. The trial court held that appellants do not have right to use the […]
The recruitment process for appointment of 248 new Patent Examiners has been completed by the Patent & Trademark Office. The increase in the number of patent examiners by 248 will help in clearing the backlog of pending patent applications as these examiners are together expected to examine about 30,000 more applications per year.
The recruitment process for appointment of 248 new Patent Examiners has been completed by the Patent & Trademark Office. The increase in the number of patent examiners by 248 will help in clearing the backlog of pending patent applications as these examiners are together expected to examine about 30,000 more applications per year.
