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Trademark portfolio is a valued asset. A trademark portfolio, like any other asset, requires constant monitoring, auditing, and management of each trademark family. An imperative analysis is done on a complete trademark portfolio or a subsection of trademark families, in which each trademark family in a portfolio can contain trademark applications, as well as registered trademarks....
China’s Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) in this judgment, finally recognized the Spanish high-fashion shoe designer’s name right in the MANOLO BLAHNIK mark. This judgment ends the decades-long trademark dispute by invalidating the squatted mark, which had prevented Mr. Blahnik from using his personal name as the trademark for his famous shoe brand in China. Factual Background...
A patent invalidity search or competition search is conducted to determine patentable or non-patentable action that asserts the novelty and inventiveness of the patent at issue. This search is performed to select files that predate the earliest filing date of the patent. When a search is performed to test the validity of a claim, it...
A patent infringement search occurs when another company begins using, selling, or manufacturing a patented product without the patent owner’s consent or license. Therefore, the sale or manufacture of an unexpired patented invention in a patent-protected territory without obtaining a license from the patentee constitutes a patent infringement investigation and can be legally challenged. The...
Structure Search: – When a certain substance is novel, there structure searches are necessary. It becomes highly challenging to seek a new structure by using a common name or IUPAC name for “Chemical compounds”. Additionally, it is challenging to find patents that disclose interesting and novel structures by using keywords search alone, because patents often...
In a knock-out search, patent and non-patent databases are focused to find the prior art that is identical or strikingly similar to the invention. In other words we can say it is a speedy and concentrated patentability search. The purpose of knock out search is to assist the person to identify potential conflicts that might...
Searching of a design patent for an innovation is simpler than getting a utility patent. Despite the simplicity of obtaining a design patent, applications are frequently turned down. Extensive design patent searches are a typical and important method for assuring the patent-worthiness of designs. Although candidates can carry out such searches on their own, it...
State-of-the-art (SOA) searches are the most comprehensive of all patent searches and are used to get a complete picture of a particular patent area. The State of the art search is used to drive strategies at both IP and corporate levels, helping to provide long-term market advantage. It is essentially market research that looks broadly and comprehensively...
Patent Landscape is a survey aimed at providing an overview of a given field on a single platform, providing multiple insights for decision makers. The Patent Landscape Analysis can take a large number of patents and extract relevant information that helps to understand a particular area, all of which can be analyzed in one file or dashboard....
A trademark can be differentiated and made for anything specific in the product. Sometimes, there are similarities in the sound or the phonetic pronunciation of the name of the product or the company. And sometimes the colour and the colour scheme of the packaging plays an important role in the consumer making an initial choice and...
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