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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #244
LexBlog founder Kevin O'Keefe asks whether free legal blogging training should be available to anyone who wants it and considers whether traditional legal publishers "too...
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Failure to Function: Ornamental Refusals
Ornamental refusals are on the rise—with the USPTO issuing upwards of 50 ornamental refusals on a single day. The refusal stems from the inherent nature of the mark its...
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Failure to Function – Informational Matters, Widely Used Messages, and Religious Text
If an applied-for mark mostly or exclusively conveys information about a product or service, the mark is considered merely informational matter and will be refused based ...
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Economy Dips, Trademark Applications Soar: Yet Another Unexpected Outcome of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic radically altered the global economy and made an unexpected impact on global trademark applications. While in times of economic decline, we typicall...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #239
President Biden said last week that he supports waiving international patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines. Not surprisingly, Pfizer and BioNTech weighed in to say tha...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #238
Chanel and Huawei went to court to see who owns interlocking Cs. CNIPA has apparently published the passport details of thousands of foreign applicants, including small b...
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