📰 In 2005, McDonald’s tried to stop a Singaporean company, Future Enterprise Pte Ltd from using the prefix “Mc” or “Mac” on their products. Future Enterprise had applied to register “Mac Chocolate”, “Mac Tea” and “Mac Noodle” as trademark for their products. McDonald’s claimed
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🔔 Do you know? In 2009, McDonald’s lost its exclusive claim to the trademark “Mc” on some of its food products within the EU after a dispute with Supermac’s, an Irish restaurant chain. McDonald’s had argued that Supermac’s is too close to their trademarked burger and will confuse the
🗃️ The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents or the Apostille Convention, is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. It is a treaty signed between member states to speed up the certification process
🤔 Ever wonder why some countries take a long time for the documents to be approved before trademark can be filed? This is due to a process called the legalisation. In international law, this is a process of authenticating or certifying a legal document so a foreign country’s legal system will
📜 Power of Attorney (POA) – If you had filed a trademark before you have definitely encountered with the term POA. But what is it for? It is basically an instrument that provides for the appointment of the Donee, a recipient of power (usually a lawyer) as attorney of the Donor, giver of power
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