WIPO Substantive examination of your international trademark registration – IP Offices
The IP Office of each Madrid System Member where you seek overseas protection of your trademark performs substantive exa...
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南アフリカ Must a Trade Mark be Registered?
Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) > Register Trade MarkA trade mark can only be protected as such an...
米国 Enforce Your Intellectual Property Rights at the Border
U.S. Customs and Border Protection > IPR > Best PracticesU.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) is the first line of...
EUIPO Justification of non-use
EUIPO > Trade mark guidelines > 2.11 Justification of non-use As an exception to the obligation of use, the concept of p...
ニュージーランド Disclaimers
New Zealand IP Office > Current Practice Guidelines > DisclaimersA disclaimer is an acknowledgement by the owner of a tr...
香港 Who may oppose to trademark registration
HKIPD > Trade Marks > Trade Marks Registry Work ManualSection 44 of the Trade Marks Ordinance provides that “any” person...
USPTO Parody Does Not Implicate First Amendment Concerns, But Only Implicates Likelihood of Confusion
US Supreme Court > Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, decided June 8, 2023We do not decide whether theR...
香港 Honest concurrent use
IPD HKSAR / Trade Marks RegistryA two–stage analysis is adopted in determining whether registration should be allowed on...
オーストラリア Non-traditional Trademarks
IP Australia > Trade Marks Manual of Practice and Procedure > 21.1. Non-traditional signsThe 1995 Act at section 17 defi...
シンガポール Similarity of marks
Monster Energy Company v Artisan Boulangerie Compagnie Pte Ltd SGIPOS 8The well-established criteria of visual, aural an...