The new trademark rule 2017 allows any trademark owner to file a request to file a request in form of TM-M requesting the registrar to declare a trademark ‘well-known’. Once a trademark is declared well-known by a registrar of trademark, or a court of law, the trademark registry is bound under law to not [...]
On the 19th of April, 2017, the Delhi High Court passed an order in Sunil Mittal v. Darzi on Call. This case is very interesting for two reasons, first: The Court clarifies the law on descriptive trademarks – dealing with the fascinating case of the trademark status of a translation of a descriptive term. [...]
Functional training equipment developer Fitness Anywhere LLC, known as TRX, has been awarded more than US$6.8 million in damages from online company WOSS Enterprise LLC, which willing fully infringed a TRX patent and trademark. A federal jury in California, US, (US patent 7044896) unanimously agreed that one of TRX’s patent had been infringed, as [...]
The Delhi High Court restrained today an educational institution from using ‘DPS’ as trademark of Delhi Public School. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingara Sehgal , however, said that since the name ‘Delhi Public School’ is not registered as trademark, that can be used by DPS World Foundation, whose [...]
For most of last year, Donald J. Trump’s application to register trademarks for his brand of home accessories languished in a government office in Lima, Peru. But since Mr. Trump was elected in November, the pace has picked up. A six-month-old request to register his brand of sheets, duvets, towels and other goods, now selling [...]
Well the answer seems to be in negative if the use has not been preventively authorized by The Holy See. In a statement recently, the Secretariat of state, warned against unauthorized use of and misuse of image of Pope Francis: “The Secretariat of state includes among its responsibilities the protection of image of Holy [...]
