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• How to challenge another individual’s trade mark application
  Posted by Sena Tokel on December 15, 2019 / Posted in Trade Marks
  In the UK, there are both legal and non-legal ways in which you can challenge someone's trade mark application.
  In the UK, there are both legal and non-legal ways in which you can challenge someone's trade mark application.  You may have recently discovered an application for a trade mark that you feel will cause confusion between your existing business and/or brand but fear not! There are two ways in which you can object: 1.Opposition  When a trade mark application passes the examination stage in the UKIPO, there is a two-month period in which other individual’s can oppose the [...]
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• Disney’s Frozen 2 accused of trade mark infringement
  Posted by Sena Tokel on December 14, 2019 / Posted in Trade Marks
  Disney are being accused of trade mark infringement over the use of the trade marked slogan ‘Trust Your Journey’ on their Frozen 2 merchandise.
  Disney are being accused of trade mark infringement over the use of the trade marked slogan ‘Trust Your Journey’ on their Frozen 2 merchandise. Created by a breast cancer survivor in Nevada USA, the now well-known cancer awareness group registered the slogan as a trade mark with the USPTO in 2007.  The complaint, filed by the awareness group to the Nevada Federal Court, claims that the use of the slogan on Disney’s Frozen 2 merchandise including t-shirts, posters and [...]
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• The key benefits of having a registered trade mark
  Posted by Sena Tokel on December 05, 2019 / Posted in Trade Marks
  Registering your brand name and/or logo as a trade mark has a number of benefits for your business and can heighten your Intellectual Property value considerably.
  Registering your brand name and/or logo as a trade mark has a number of benefits for your business and can heighten your Intellectual Property value considerably. Registering your brand as a trade mark means you’ll be able to: Have protection This means that your trade mark will give you protection over your brand name and/or logo which will prevent any third parties from using your mark to copy or pass off as their own. This in essence, will prevent any potential damage to your [...]
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• Vegan ‘Herbivorous Butcher’ in trade mark dispute with Nestlé
  Posted by Sena Tokel on December 05, 2019 / Posted in Trade Marks
  In 2017 sibling owned US brand ‘Herbivorous Butcher’ applied to register ‘The Vegan Butcher’ as a trade mark which was later denied by the USPTO.
  In 2017 sibling owned US brand ‘Herbivorous Butcher’ applied to register ‘The Vegan Butcher’ as a trade mark which was later denied by the USPTO. The Minneapolis based vegan butcher failed to gain trade mark protection based on the grounds that the mark applied for was ‘merely descriptive’. However, their applications for ‘Meat-Free Meats’, ‘Sister ‘ and ‘Brother Butcher’ were accepted.  Similar to the UK, US trade [...]
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