オーストラリア Partial assignment
In a partial assignment, the original owner of the trade mark retains the trade mark in respect of some of the goods and...
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USPTO Disney’s Opposition to OSWALD THE RABBIT for Movie and Play Production Due to Lack of Bona Fide Intent
In short, we cannot conclude that Applicant’s intent to use the applied-for mark as an indicator of source for the parti...
シンガポール Names of famous fictional characters and stories
If the name in question is widely known, it is possible that it will only be viewed as the name of the character in the ...
USPTO Cognac Institute’s Opposition to COLOGNE & COGNAC ENTERTAINMENT
The stacked alliterative phrase, COLOGNE & COGNAC, appears prominently above the smaller and merely descriptive or gener...
マレーシア Music Groups
Many music groups identify themselves by adopting distinctive and unusual names. Application to register well-known name...
USPTO Is TENNISOS Merely Descriptive of Robotic Systems Software Platforms?
The fact that no one may previously have used “TENNIS” and “OS” together before does not mean that the combined term can...
USPTO Is SEXTO for Alcoholic Beverages Confusable with THE SEXTON for Whiskey?
In every inter partes case, the plaintiff must establish its entitlement to have invoked the statutory proceeding it fil...
EUIPO Self-promotion isn’t an advertising service
There is nothing to suggest that consumers perceived the contested mark displayed on the invoices relied on by the appli...
EUIPO Just saying ‘it’s B’ doesn’t make it the same B! – 1
Indeed, the descriptive, non-distinctive or weakly distinctive elements of a complex trade mark generally have less weig...
USPTO STROLL TO THE POLLS Fails to Function as a Trademark for Clothing
Notwithstanding Applicant’s apparent intent that the phrase function as a mark, the evidence of record shows that the pr...