As I explain in my Brand Spillovers paper, we almost never see merchandising-related trademark owner-vs.
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Note that this is not a typical trademark lawsuit, where a trademark owner sues a competitor for copying its trademark too closely.
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This is because one of the first things a responsible trademark owner must do is see to it that their brand maintains its level of quality.
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More weight was added by Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, who said the agency regards the Shenzhen company as the rightful trademark owner.
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Every once in a while, some Trademark owner or the other loses rights because it becomes so famous that people starting calling the article by the trademarked name.
Without registration, the trademark owner must first prove to a court that it indeed owns an exclusive right to use a trademark in order to prohibit use of confusingly similar terms by others.
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Instead, this is a trademark owner-vs.
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As I mentioned in this post, consumer surveys suggest that consumers conduct do those keyword search for a variety of reasons that may have nothing to do with finding the trademark owner (a point I also stressed in my 2005 Deregulating Relevancy article).
Fu Shuangjian, deputy director of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said at a press conference on April 24 that Proview Technology is still the owner of the iPad trademark.
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Trademark protection of a fictional character provides the owner with the exclusive right to use the character in connection with goods and services, as well as the right to prevent the unauthorized use of the character in connection with goods and services of infringing third parties.
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If you were the owner of the KOOL-AID mark at the time, it raised what certainly was no MICKEY MOUSE trademark problem.
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