Category: Intellectual Property (page 135 of 156)
🛈 Patents are territorially limited. In order to protect your invention in multiple countries you have a few options:
(a) Direct or Paris route: you can directly file separate patent applications at the same time in all of the countries in which you would like to protect your invention (for some
® Trademark rights are acquired through use and hence the use of the trademark will make the mark more distinctive and powerful in nature. There is, however, a process where a prospective mark owner can “reserve” a mark that he or she intends to use in the future, even though he is not currently
⚖️ Although most people will shun away from problems and comply with the demands of the big entity, a businessman in the US thought otherwise. He was being opposed by DC Comics and Marvel for the use of the superhero in his book. Both this entity, although are always at loggerhead, has joined
💬 Opposition can be raised for various reasons including the reason that the trademark fails to fulfill the registrability requirement found in the Trademarks Act. The opposition can be raised by any person during the gazette period of 2 months after the acceptance of the mark form the Registry