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Delhi High Court dismisses Sun Pharma’s plea against Mylan; Nilambur Teak to get GI tag? and much more.

This weekly update on Trademarks and Geographical Indications (GI) is brought to you by the Trademark experts of BananaIP (BIP) Counsels. Trademark thought of the week: "Trademark is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."- Daniel J. Boorstin Trademark Stats from the Indian Trademark Office, between 8th February 2017 to 15th February 2017 : Total Trademark applications examined by Trademark Office: 11095 Total applications disposed through show cause hearings: 1237 Total applications published in the…

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PayPal and Paytm Trademark Dispute

Paytm, the largest e-wallet company in India, which saw a drastic surge in user volume post-demonetization, has found itself embroiled in a controversy over its logo with the US-based PayPal, also a digitized payment system. Paypal claims that Paytm’s logo is ‘deceptively and confusingly similar’ to that of the global giant’s. PayPal further claims that Paytm is free-riding on the goodwill of PayPal. What is similar between the two logos is that the first syllable of both the logos is…

December 27, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 2229Views 0Like

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Iceland v. Iceland : The Battle for Exclusivity

Iceland (the country ) is a leading exporter of frozen fish and seafood to several countries in the EU. Recently, native companies like ‘Clean Iceland’ and ‘Iceland Gold’ have faced trouble in marketing their products due to confusion over the name which clashes with ‘Iceland Foods’ – a renowned frozen food supermarket chain that has subsisted since the 70’s. ‘Iceland Foods’ for several years used to be under the control of Icelandic investors and later Icelandic banks. As the spokesperson…

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Instagram opposes Microsoft over the use of the suffix ‘gram’

Instagram, the Facebook-owned photosharing app has opposed tech giant Microsoft over the usage of the trademark suffix ‘gram’ that Microsoft intends to use for its products. Instagram has endeavoured to block Microsoft from having ‘Actiongram’ federally registered as a trademark owing to the use of the suffix ‘gram’. According to Instagram’s Notice of Opposition with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the company is convinced that it “will be damaged by the registration of the Actiongram mark,” as Microsoft’s…

November 23, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 1586Views 0Like

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Rubik’s Cube loses EU trademark battle

Rubik’s Cube is the most renowned and an iconic 3-D combinatorial puzzle of all time. This multi-coloured puzzle was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. This puzzle is the bestselling toy of all time with over 350 million Rubik’s cubes having been sold worldwide. Along with that it has won “Toy of the Year” in 1980 and 1981 and has combined total of over 43 quintillion different possible configurations to solve it. On 10…

November 18, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 912Views 0Like

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Trump winning battles in U.S and China.

The presidential elections in the United States of America have now concluded with Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump winning a closely contested election. There has been a lot of speculation about IP laws and its progress under Trump’s term, but unfortunately there hasn’t been much information released in his agenda. Although Trump has substantial personal experience protecting and enforcing his own trademarks, including attempts to protect more controversial marks such as 'you're fired.' One of the recent cases being,…

November 16, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 733Views 0Like

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Sephora Cosmetics prevail over footwear, British MNC GlaxoSmithKline wins trademark infringement suit against GSK and more.

Hello Readers!! There has been a lot that has been brewing over the past few weeks with respect to Trademarks. We have decided to recapitulate the trademark news which have recently hit the headlines in our segment, Weekly Trends. Let us take a quick look at what happened in the past weeks, with this weekly update. Sephora – cosmetics prevail over footwear Sephora is a prominent cosmetic company with French origin that recently got embroiled in a case with a…

November 9, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 897Views 0Like

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Trademark News

Hello Readers!! There has been a lot that has been brewing over the past few weeks with respect to Trademarks. We have decided to recapitulate the trademark news which have recently hit the headlines in our segment, Weekly Trends. Let us take a quick look at what happened in the past weeks, with this weekly update. Delhi High Court restrains Career Launcher rival from using its trademark The Delhi High Court has recently restrained a competing coaching institute from using the…

October 27, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 787Views 0Like

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Star Wars Maker sues Lightsaber Academy over Trademark Violations

One cannot deny the fact that in the past few decades people around the globe, especially in America, have grown following the Star Wars series and the endearment for the same has only escalated with time. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars by 20th Century Fox which became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon and the rest as they say is history. Since its inception Star Wars has turned into an eminent brand and…

October 20, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 718Views 0Like

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Trademark News

Hello Readers!! There has been a lot that has been brewing over the past few weeks with respect to trademarks. We have decided to recapitulate the trademark news which have recently hit the headlines with our new segment, Weekly Trends. Let us take a quick look at what happened in the past weeks, with this weekly update. Supreme Court to decide soon on a two decade old trademark dispute On September 30th, 2016 the Supreme Court of India agreed to hear…

October 12, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Trademarks 0Comment 708Views 0Like

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Delhi High Court dismisses Sun Pharma’s plea against Mylan; Nilambur Teak to get GI tag? and much more.

PayPal and Paytm Trademark Dispute

Iceland v. Iceland : The Battle for Exclusivity

Instagram opposes Microsoft over the use of the suffix ‘gram’

Rubik’s Cube loses EU trademark battle

Trump winning battles in U.S and China.

Sephora Cosmetics prevail over footwear, British MNC GlaxoSmithKline wins trademark infringement suit against GSK and more.

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Star Wars Maker sues Lightsaber Academy over Trademark Violations

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