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Month: July 2020 (page 3 of 5)

Filing For Patents In Various Countries Can Be Costly, But…

… you could manage costs by: • Outlining the countries/regions of your business interest in advance and only file where you plan to do business in. • Filing a PCT application (a.k.a. international application) to defer filing in any of the member countries for 30–31 months, depending

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👟 ADIDAS AMERICA INC. v. PAYLESS SHOESOURCE INC

Adidas had used its three-stripe mark as a logo of sorts since 1952, and had recently registered it as a trademark. But Payless was selling confusingly similar athletic shoes with two and four parallel stripes. The trial between Adidas and Payless lasted seven years from 2001, during which 268 pairs

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🥣 HOW KELLOGG’S SHREDDED WHEAT CEREAL STARTED

After Henry Perky, the inventor of the first shredded wheat cereal, died in 1908 and his two patents, on the biscuits and the machinery that made them, expired in 1912, the Kellogg Company began selling a similar pillow-shaped cereal. Previously, John Harvey Kellogg said that eating the cereal was

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👱‍♂️ THE TRUMP TRADEMARK ®️

The US President Donald Trump, his company and his family have applied for more than 1,000 trademarks worldwide since the late 1980s.

Close to 200 of those applications have been filed since 2015, the year Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

In China, marks covering

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💲 IP LICENSING SERIES 3: LICENSING AGREEMENT

A licensing agreement is a partnership between an intellectual property rights owner (licensor) and another who is authorized to use such rights (licensee) in exchange for an agreed payment (fee or royalty). A variety of such licensing agreements are available, which may be broadly categorized as

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