“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
Can a trademark be revoked when the word becomes synonomous with a common term for something in the English language? There has been various examples where intellectual property law has held a trademark can be lost if a word becomes synonomous with an activity in the English language-for example the word “yo-yo.”
By Emma Peart A number of large fashion companies have been recently flexing their muscles in attempts to fiercely protect their intellectual property rights. Louis Vuitton has been busy protecting its rights in the case of Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Akanoc Solutions, Inc., 658 F.3d 936 (9th Cir. 2011) where it has taken legal action against the owners of
By: Ainsley Brown In my opinion Intellectual property is as much if not more about litigation/dispute resolution as it is about registration. If you don’t believe me just read: Big Brands and their Intellectual Property Woes: Michael Jordan, Disney, Apple, Target, & and More. It is a listing of 10 well- known brands (with full stories attached if you want
Image rights generally speaking are intellectual property rights that are intended to protect the use of a person’s name, personality, distinctiveness, likeness and even gestures. Guernsey’s law, set to become active just in time for the London Olympics, will allow sports stars and other individual that derive a considerable part of their income from the exploitation of their image to better – from a tax and asset management perspective – manage the income from their image. For example the law would allow an “image individual” to separate the income they earn directly from doing their jobs and those gained from the use of their image.
The decision highlights the responsibility of server providers to regulate their usage and make sure that any usage which breaches copyright or trademark rights must be dealt with or they can be held liable for any breach of copyright or trademark law. Owners of servers must be extremely vigilant of the activities of the users of its servers.
The long and short of it is that this latest ruling is the latest chapter in a multi-volume epic battle. It is a story about a 100 year war, a cross border beer war, over a name. Yes, that’s what I said a name. From a business perspective it’s all about fiercely defending the brand and marketing of beer and beer related products under that brand. From a legal perspective it is a global trademark war.
Telecommunication can play a large part in intellectual property, and the European Union has given an acknowledgement of this today.
It has announced it will be looking at the online data traffic management practices of telecommunications operators. Information provided suggests that the investigation will focus on what information telecommunications operators give consumers about the way they manage internet traffic:“traffic management”.
MPAA have issued notices to Google for illicit sharing of material that is protected by copyright…
By: Emma Peart It has come to light through accidental disclosure of files that a UK law firm, ACS: Law has been sending letters on behalf of its client MediaCAT to suspected illegal file sharers. This in itself has raised a number of questions as to any such action by a firm. The letters themselves offered the suspected illegal file-sharers
By: Ainsley Brown I want to extend a very warm heart felt Happy Birthday to Robert Nesta Marley, better know to the world as Bob Marley. Rest in peace Bob, you are gone but never forgotten. Thank you for the music, memories and most of all the vision for a better world. So what does this have to do