To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The direct tax proposals in the recent Union Budget provide for allowing depreciation on intangible assets (which would now from a separate block of assets) at the rate of 25 per cent on written-down (that is, depreciated) value. Consequently, the…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Introduction In recent years, the Chinese government has implemented various measures to crack down on bad faith trade mark filings, including amending the Trade Mark Law in 2019 to empower the China National Intellectual Property Administration.CNIPA”) To reject applications on…
The USPTO recently issued new guidance on how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) will apply Apple Inc. v. Fintiv Inc., a 2020 precedential decision which laid out considerations for denying institution of a post-grant proceeding because of a parallel district court litigation. USPTO Director Katherine K. Vidal released a memorandum entitled “Interim Procedure…
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Citroën can count on its chevrons, protected as a figurative trademark and confirmed as having a distinctive character by the Paris Court of Appeals in late 2021 and the EUIPO in April 2022, to block new competitor Polestar. Based in Sweden and car preparer for Volvo company, Polestar was unable to enter the French market…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The EPO Guidelines are the main resource used by EPO examiners for guidance in the examination process. Section F-IV, 3.9 of the guidelines sets out examples of acceptable kinds of claims directed to computer-implemented inventions (“CII”). Section F-IV, 3.9 aims…
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29 June 2022 Fox Rothschild LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The US International Trade Commission is a federal agency with the authority to adjudicate cases involving companies that domestically exploit US intellectual property rights and those who import allegedly infringing products under Section 337…
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29 June 2022 Photon legal To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Any word, name, symbol, sound, or design used to identify and distinguish the goods and services of one business from that of another to indicate the source of the goods can be referred…
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27 June 2022 Novagraaf Group To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Choosing a ‘strong’ brand name for your business can be a challenging undertaking. Depending on your market and industry, there is a risk that your preferred name will have already been registered as a trademark…
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Ricardo Costa Macedo, Head of the Life Sciences and Intellectual Property groups at Caiado Guerreiro, clarifies the available intellectual property protection in the healthcare industry including trademarks, patents, domain names, and trade secrets. It is known that there is an increased demand for health services across the world. Global population growth, aging population and an…
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23 June 2022 Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Board denied a petition for cancellation of registrations for the mark RESET for “Software for the treatment of substance use disorder” and RESET-O for “Software for the treatment of…
