Menu Close

Year: 2020 (page 32 of 93)

🔀 PATENT PROSECUTION HIGHWAY (PPH)

The PPH is a patent examination mechanism that offers a patent applicant the opportunity to expedite patent examination in one or more jurisdictions on the basis of an allowed patent application in another jurisdiction.

Read More

🧩 CREATIVE COMMON’S OPEN COVID PLEDGE

Creative Commons has joined forces with other legal experts and leading scientists to offer the Open COVID Pledge, a simple way for universities, companies, and other holders of intellectual property rights to support the development of medicines, test kits, vaccines, and other scientific discoveries

Read More

🍔🍟 MCDONALD’S STRIPPED OF BIG MAC TRADEMARK ACROSS EU

#McDonald’s: Supermac’s branding was too similar to ours and would cause confusion among consumers.

#Supermac’s: The company is named after our Irish founder Pat McDonagh, who earned the name “Supermac” while playing Gaelic football in his youth. We have applied to the European Union Intellectual

Read More

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

Read More

👟 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

Read More

+603-5891 4846 +603-5879 9908

© 2026 NBS Intellectual Sdn Bhd. All rights reserved. By Netbusiness.