Some countries may recognise common law
trademark rights based on the use of a mark, while other jurisdictions give priority to the first party to file a trademark application, regardless of use.
Not exact matches
Matthew Swyers is the founder of The
Trademark Company, a Web - based law firm specializing in protecting the trademark rights of small to medium - size bu
Trademark Company, a Web -
based law firm specializing in protecting the
trademark rights of small to medium - size bu
trademark rights of small to medium - size businesses.
The filing comes just weeks after the Dublin, Ireland -
based company, bizarrely enough, assumed
rights to the word «candy» for
trademark purposes in the U.S. and the European Union.
«Kim's
trademark smoky eyes and nude lips can translate into «bridal» as long as you're wearing the
right colors for your skin tone,» says Denver -
based makeup artist Carissa Passerella of Carissa Beauty.
You may not either directly or through the use of any device, software, internet site, web -
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trademark, or other proprietary notices marked on the Content or any digital
rights management mechanism, device, or other content protection or access control measure associated with the Content including geo - filtering mechanisms.
Apple revealed in its lawsuit that
trademark rights to the term iPad has been sold by a Proview subsidiary in Taiwan to «IP Applications,» a company
based in the UK.
You will not remove, alter or conceal any copyright,
trademark, service mark or other proprietary
rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Blue Buffalo Content and you will not reproduce, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works
based on, perform, display, publish, distribute, transmit, broadcast, sell, license or otherwise exploit the Blue Buffalo Content or any portion thereof, except as follows:
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trademark, trade secret or other proprietary
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based on race, ethnicity, gender, sex or disability, pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the Animal League or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN - SPAM Act of 2003); (vii) would encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, federal or international laws, rules or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interfere with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of the Animal League's or other's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other Animal League members, Site users or attempt to gain access to other Animal League members information, or otherwise mine information about Animal League members, Site users, or the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) are contrary to the Animal League's public image, goodwill, reputation or mission or otherwise not in furtherance of the Animal Leagues stated purposes.
Speedy, tactical turn -
based combat utilizing the Cold Steel series»
trademark «ARCUS» system returns with all the bells and whistles players fondly remember, alongside a new Overdrive mode, new means of transportation across both the land and sky, new allies, new dangers, and a renewed sense of hope as Rean tirelessly works to
right the wrongs that have led his country to disarray.
The statue stands approximately 30 ″ / 76 cm from the
base to the crest of Harley's pigtails; each statue includes three interchangeable faces
right arms to accommodate for specific weapons - a baseball bat and her
trademark Jack - in - the - Box bomb.
Photographer hereby releases, indemnifies, and agrees to hold harmless the Museum, its trustees, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability, claims, suits, actions, damages, settlements and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of injuries to persons, damages to property, claims
based on alleged defamation or infringement of
rights to copyright,
trademark, service mark or other intellectual property, or
rights to privacy and / or any and all other damages in connection with Photographer's activities and use of the Museum's facilities or equipment, whether from an occurrence at the Museum facility during such use, or at any other time and place, AND NOTWITHSTANDING ANY NEGLIGENCE THAT MIGHT BE ALLEGED AGAINST, OR ATTRIBUTED TO THE MUSEUM OR ANY PERSON INDEMNIFIED HEREUNDER.
Virtuoso Legal, a Leeds and London -
based intellectual property specialist law firm, defended Argos Systems in the High Court and Deputy Judge Spearman found that Argos Systems was not infringing the
trademark or passing off
rights of Argos UK.
One reason is that IP
rights (patents,
trademarks and copyright) are statutory monopolies, granted on a national
basis.
He frequently represents clients in litigation and arbitration, and on a pre-litigation
basis relating to supply network, distribution, trade secrets, trade dress, covenants not to compete, and enforcement of contract and
trademark rights.
Trademarks can have
rights in Canada arising from registration in the Canadian Intellectual Property Office or from common law
based on use in the marketplace.
The same court had stayed a design
rights -
based case against multiple Samsung phones because of doubts that Apple's asserted Community designs would be upheld at the end of a revocation proceeding before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, an EU agency in charge of Community (= Eu - wide)
trademark and design registration.
Weil successfully represented Forbes Media in a $ 9 million international arbitration with Ukraine -
based United Media Holding concerning
trademark licensing
rights to the Forbes
trademark in Ukraine, in which the Ukraine -
based Claimants — who were placed on the U.S. sanctions list during the course of the dispute — disputed the termination of the license agreement and sought significant damages.
The Eurasian Economic Commission is currently drafting: (1) the
Trademark Agreement, which provides for the establishment within the EEU of the Union - wide system for registration of
trademarks and service marks; (2) Agreement on common process for administering copyrights and neighbouring
rights on a collective
basis, to establish the process for administration of copyrights and neighbouring
rights within the EEU member states; and (3) Agreement on the coordination of activities to protect intellectual property
rights, regulating the cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of EEU member states in the area of IP
rights protection.
A company called Super Union Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong
based company that pretty much sits on IP assets, owns the
trademark rights to the word «Black Friday» in Germany.
NORTHBOROUGH, Massachusetts (BUSINESS WIRE)-- November 15, 2007 — Pongo Software, LLC, a premier provider of web -
based software, has announced its acquisition of all
rights to the 10 MINUTE RESUME
trademark and 10MinuteResume.com domain name from Portable Resume Corporation (PRC), a pioneer in the online resume industry.
Vancouver -
based Diversified Royalty Corp. has inked a deal with Sutton Group Realty Services to acquire the Canadian and U.S.
trademarks and other intellectual property
rights for $ 30.6 million.
«This finding is consistent with the majority of Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy cases, which have recognized a domain name registration as a
trademark owner's exclusive
right, and that permitting such a registration would allow any distributor, wholesaler or retailer to monopolize a third party's real trade mark as a domain name
based upon the mere fact that it sells the party's products or services,» says Gowlings.