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  • Notice: Trade marks and designs: hearing diaries
  • Manual of trade marks practice
  • Well-Known Marks: To Declare or Not to Declare?

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gov.uk /1 month ago

Notice: Trade marks and designs: hearing diaries

Details of all scheduled trade mark (unless otherwise specified) procedural hearings, main hearings and appeals to the appointed person.

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gov.uk /1 month ago

Manual of trade marks practice

The manual of trade marks practice sets out guidance on the Intellectual Property Office work practices.

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spicyip.com /1 month ago

Well-Known Marks: To Declare or Not to Declare?

Ordinarily, trademark protection is strongest in relation to the identical or similar goods or services for which a mark is registered. Some marks, however, acquire such a strong r...

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law360.com /1 month ago

4 Opinions Showcase Hurdles To Trademarking Names

Four opinions issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board this year show that names are only registrable as trademarks when they point to the applicant and to nobody else, says...

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spicyip.com /4 weeks ago

No Declaration Required: What the Delhi High Court’s ZARA v. ZORA Ruling Means for Section 11(2)

The Delhi High Court’s ZARA v. ZORA ruling settles one question while leaving another lurking beneath it. A formal declaration, the Court holds, is not necessary to invoke Section...

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law360.com /1 month ago

Tribal Immunity Cannot Block TM Challenges, TTAB Rules

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has ruled for the first time that tribal sovereign immunity cannot block challenges to federal trademark registrations, rejecting Sycuan Tribal...

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law360.com /1 week ago

TTAB Tribal Immunity Ruling Alters TM Strategy Risks

Following the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's recent holding in Philip Morris v. IP Services International that tribal sovereign immunity does not bar trademark cancellation pro...

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natlawreview.com /1 month ago

CJEU Establishes Framework for Balancing Trademark Rights and Freedom of Expression

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gov.uk /4 days ago

Form: Request to restore and renew a registration

Use this form to request to restore a trade mark within 6 months of the date that it was removed from the register.

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law360.com /1 month ago

Rise Brewing Urges Justices To Let Juries Weigh TM Strength

RiseandShine Corp. urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject what it called the Second Circuit's outlier rule allowing judges to decide the strength of a trademark, arguing...

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natlawreview.com /1 month ago

China’s Supreme People’s Court Releases Draft Rules Implementing 2027 Trademark Law Amendments for Public Comment

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law360.com /1 month ago

TTAB's Nike Ruling Highlights Trademark Filing Pitfalls

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's recent decision in Nike v. Blue Ribbon Team illustrates how the Lanham Act's requirement for bona fide intent works in practice, and provides...

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spicyip.com /2 weeks ago

SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 28- October 4)

Beating the Monday blues after a long weekend, here we are with the first Weekly Review of October, featuring a post on Section 124, case summaries of orders passed by different Hi...

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illinoislawyernow.com /1 month ago

Lanham Act Cannot be Used to Repackage Patent Claims

Bright Hand LLC v. Shenzhen Aoya Kuajing Dianzi Shangwu Youxiangongsi d/b/a Mylivell, No. 1:25-cv-11700, (N.D. Ill. May 26, 2026) (Coleman, J.). Judge Coleman, in this patent infri...

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law360.com /1 month ago

Personal Injury Firm Beats Atty's Bid For 'Birth Justice' TM

A former associate at a personal injury and medical malpractice law firm can't register in her own name a trademark for birth-injury legal services that she helped develop before a...

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spicyip.com /3 weeks ago

Can Section 124 be Invoked in Section 47 Cancellation Proceedings under the Trade Marks Act, 1999?

The interplay between trademark infringement proceedings and non-use cancellation proceedings under Sections 47 and 124 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 raises a deceptively simple que...

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smallbusiness.co.uk /3 weeks ago

A guide to trade marks and the benefits of registration

By Ben Lobel on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Helene Whelbourn and Alastair Rawlence of intellectual property specialist NOVAGRAAF provide t...

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illinoislawyernow.com /2 weeks ago

Protecting Your Trademark from Post-Registration Legal Horrors

Registering your trademark isn’t the finish line. Here’s what you have to do afterward, correct use, policing for conflicts, and USPTO maintenance deadlines, to keep it enforceable...

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gov.uk /1 month ago

Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7163

Publication date 2 September 2026.

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gov.uk /1 month ago

Part B: Absolute grounds for refusal

Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.

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natlawreview.com /1 month ago

Off the Mark- NPE Licensees Must Comply with Patent Marking for Pre-Suit Damages

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rooferscoffeeshop.com /1 month ago

The Coffee Shops® Announce Two Registered Trademarks

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law360.com /3 days ago

Italian Winery Asks Justices To Revive TM Victory

An Italian winery has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a trademark infringement ruling it won in New York federal court that was later overturned by the Second Circuit, sayi...

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gov.uk /3 weeks ago

Notice: Patent Journal special notices: 7167

Publication date 30 September 2026.

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