Summer Jewels is a high-end quality jewellery SME based in Estonia, supplying the European market, and most recently, Latin America. Following their success in Latin America, the owner of Summer Jewels contacted the Helpdesk to learn what they needed to know before expanding into their next...

Summer Jewels is a high-end quality jewellery SME based in Estonia, supplying the European market, and most recently, Latin America. Following their success in Latin America, the owner of Summer Jewels contacted the Helpdesk to learn what they needed to know before expanding into their next...

Gauntlet, a Greek SME with over 15 years of experience in Central America, specializes in hygiene products like disposable gloves for the healthcare industry, with a solid presence in countries such as Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Paraguay, expanded into Brazil in 2016, initially focusing on their...

Gauntlet, a Greek SME with over 15 years of experience in Central America, specializes in hygiene products like disposable gloves for the healthcare industry, with a solid presence in countries such as Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Paraguay, expanded into Brazil in 2016, initially focusing on their...

In September 2021, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) presented the report on Green EU trade marks, analysis of goods and services specifications, 1996-2020. The report defines green EU trade marks (EUTMs) as those applications that contain at least one 'green' term in their...

With this fact sheet we will guide you through the essential actions to secure your trademark rights after registration. Whether you are an emerging startup or an established business, protecting your brand is not just a choice; it is a strategic necessity in today's competitive marketplace. From...

Joint ownership of a trademark is, in many ways, the intellectual property equivalent of any general partnership. The General Partners shall be collectively responsible for the activities of the partnership and shall be equally empowered to act in the name of the partnership. Similarly, the...

This paper exposes, for the first time, the urgent risks emerging from applying the recently-concluded Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments to unfair competition judgments, leading to the creation of global trademarks. Already acceded to by the EU and signed by the...

We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights. But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others...

The identification of ecological innovation and ecologically innovative firms is important for understanding the role of innovation and technology in the transition to a greener economy. Information from patent and trademark data offers an objective, transparent, fast, and cost-effective way to...

Spanish AbstractEl “co-branding” se ha constituido en una herramienta fundamental para los empresarios que aspiran a incrementar el recuerdo y reconocimiento de sus marcas dentro de la mente retentiva del público consumidor. Por consiguiente, el presente artículo tiene como objetivo...

The recent rise of the blockchain based technology of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) hasalready led to a number of lawsuits where NFTs are alleged to infringe trademarks. These caseshave generally centered around the inquiry of likelihood of confusion, as most trademark casesdo, but have also raised...

Does entry by a superstar firm change the competitive dynamics of nascent industries? Using USPTO trademark data and a quasi-experimental design, we explore this question by analysing the development of new products and services in the metaverse. We develop a theoretical framework of...

Trademarks (TMs) shape the competitive landscape of markets for goods and services in all countries through branding and conveying information and quality inherent in products. Yet, researchers are largely unable to conduct rigorous empirical analysis of TMs in the modern economy because TM data...

This paper investigates the digitization and analysis of trademark registration notifications in "The Official Gazette" during the British Mandate in Palestine from 1917 to 1948. We address the challenges of digitizing poor-quality scans and evolving newspaper structures. By examining similar...

The First Amendment right to free speech limits the scope of rights in trademark law. Congress and the courts have devised various defenses and common law doctrines to ensure that protected speech is exempted from trademark infringement liability. These defensive trademark doctrines, however,...

Fashion upcycling offers unprecedented opportunities for the sustainable reuse of clothing: using second-hand garments as raw materials for new creations, upcyclers can transform used pieces of clothing into new fashion products that may become even more sought-after than the source material....

Firms often struggle with the successful commercialization of innovations, and there is a need for reliable predictors. Prior research suggests that intellectual property (IP) rights play a key role in the commercialization of innovations. However, to what extent can IP rights be used to predict...

We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights. But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others...

Trademark squatting is a nightmare for brand owners and global business entities today. It is also increasing in many countries around the world. Generally, trademark squatting is an act of registering other people’s marks as their own by squatters in other countries in order to gain benefits...

A company’s trademark in the marketplace and a domain name on the Internet help customers distinguish and identify the company’s goods and services from others. Thereby, protecting domain names is just as crucial as protecting trademarks. Following that, businesses must create domain names...

This was delivered as the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business Distinguished Visitor in Intellectual Property Lecture at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. Trademark law is motivated in part by the goal of protecting certain consumer understandings. But courts typically treat...

The many national and regional trademark systems of the world are progressively integrating into a de facto global trademark system as firms increasingly adopt global branding strategies. Global integration presents significant challenges for trademark law and policy. Businesses around the world...

The administrative law lays out limits on the ways that federal agencies may use guidance documents vis-à-vis rights of the public. It’s crucial for every patent practitioner to understand those limits—when does the MPEP state binding law, when is it mere aspiration for what an agency would...

This was delivered as the Distinguished Visitor In Intellectual Property Lecture at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law on January 9, 2023.In recent years, trademark owners have increasingly been acting very similarly to those they accuse of infringement or dilution of their...

Analysis of criminal trademark counterfeiting-related legislation and evidence of prosecutions in 24 countries and the European Union. The initial goal was to understand, describe and evaluate the effectiveness of criminal punishment for trademark counterfeiting in this comparative study, while...

We focus on the enforcement of trademark rights, particularly those used against counterfeiters, or those who use unauthorized trademarks of another. We examine the concept of extraterritorial enforcement of trademark rights — the extending of enforcement across national borders — and...

The paper analyses the current European trademark legal framework for striking a balance between the interests of proprietors of reputable trademarks and content creators. The paper focuses on five different cases where the competing interests arise, interpreting and applying provisions of...

Companies use trademarks to protect their brands from outright imitation or competition by confusingly similar products. However, publication of trademark filings by the trademark office discloses information about a firm's new product or service. This creates a trade-off between legal...