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A good advertisement doesn’t mean that there won’t be any backlash or digging into how the ad is made. This is reflected clearly in a recent scandal about a hit advertisement by Andy Lau in China when his advertisement over the Audi car brand got criticized as copying and pasting word by word to a post by another famous vlogger in China. The German luxury carmaker Audi advertisement featuring Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau got slammed heavily on China’s [...]
The Betty Pig has been a controversial character in the IP world as there have been countless trademark conflicts with the pink pig. Recently, the IPOPHL has revealed 2 trademark applications that will likely get denied due to the resemblance to the famous Betty Pig. On the IPOPHL’s database, there have been 2 new trademark applications filed to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines that raised some eyebrows of many organizations worldwide: Application No. 4/2022/513528 is a composite mark consisting [...]
On June 14, 2022, Anaqua, the leading provider of innovation and intellectual property management solutions, announced breaking news that Osaka-based global document solutions provider Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. has chosen Anaqua’s AQX Corporate platform for integrated management of the company’s extensive patent portfolio. Anaqua is a privately-held company headquartered in Boston Massachusetts with offices across Europe and Asia. It is the leading provider of innovation and intellectual property management solutions. Over the years, Anaqua has grown exponentially through the merger with [...]
The State Administration for Market Regulation issued the Provisions on Prohibiting the Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights to Exclude and Restrict Competition on June 27, 2022 (Draft for Comments). The Draft, intended to implement the Anti-Monopoly Law (the most recent version of which goes into effect on August 1, 2022), defines markets, adds a provision on using intellectual property to form a monopoly with others, strengthens legal liability with fines of up to 10% of last year’s sales, and [...]
The State Administration for Market Regulation, or SAMR, China’s competition regulator, has begun a public consultation over changes to six substantive laws as soon as the country’s Anti-Monopoly Law (Amended AML) amendments were approved last Friday (24 June 2022). Wide-ranging proposed amendments include adding a safe harbor for specific vertical agreements and changing the notification thresholds under the merger control system. The proposed regulations, which are available for comment, include: Provisions of the State Council on Thresholds for Prior Notification of [...]
The name you give your new business or product is crucial; it may assist establish your brand identification in customers’ minds just as much as a logo or other distinctive artwork. But if you want to add that name to your portfolio of intellectual property (IP), you must proceed with caution. It can sometimes be challenging for businesses to register names as trademarks, much like slogans. The same straightforward explanation applies in both situations—only non-descriptive and distinctive instances are eligible [...]
The Trade Marks Act of 1999 (“Act”) and the Trademark Rules of 2017 govern trademarks in India. The Act outlines the process for registering any mark that can graphically depict a word, device, label, number, or combination of colors, shapes, or sounds and can identify one person’s goods or services from another. To put it another way, a trademark serves as a source of identification for companies, goods, and services. In India, any individual or organization, including overseas applicants, may [...]
Moderna is one of the most searched pharmaceutical companies in the entire world in the recent 3 years. However, it is not just because of the company’s remarkable achievement in the creation of the Covid-19 vaccines but also because of the patent lawsuit between Moderna and the United States in particular and in the entire world in general. As we have already known, back when the Covid-19 pandemic just broke out of control in the United States, Moderna and Pfizer [...]
Many contentious plant patents have been introduced over the years in India and other countries. For instance, Indian cotton producers protested when Agracetus received a plant-related patent for genetically modified cotton cell lines in 1994, causing a public uproar. The agricultural community in India claims that these patents are harmful to the interests of a significant crop of national significance and might have a detrimental impact on the Indian economy. After this government joined the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual [...]
The Vietnam IP Law was recently changed. The modifications can be summarized in the 7 large groups of policies. So, what are the recognizable changes to the amended Vietnam IP Law? The recently promulgated Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Vietnam Intellectual Property Law has 7 major policy groups, including: Policy 1: Ensure clear regulations on authors, copyright holders, performers, and related rights holders in cases of assignment, transfer of copyrights, and copyright-related rights According to this group [...]
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