Copyright (c) 2009 Ask The Business LawyerPicture this: you’re renovating your home. . . and it looks like a bomb just hit: sawdust and sheetrock shrapnel is everywhere; wires and cables snake from the ceiling and along the open baseboards; cracked tile shards carpet the bathrooms and kitchen. You have a 7-month-old infant who [...]
What is a trademark? By the trademarks and service marks are registered in the prescribed manner signs capable of distinguishing goods and services of one natural or legal persons of similar goods and services from other entities or persons. There are several fundamental problems whose solution is a trademark. A trademark is a [...]
Recently the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) passed the Trademark (Amendment) Bill-2009. Same shall be now presented before the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of Indian Parliament) and once it would be passed there and receives assent of President of India same shall be become an Act. The statement of objects [...]
Trademark law USA (USPTO) – A trademark includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods. In short, a [...]
To make your business entity brand there are two important phases, which are very essential to run the business successfully. Brand registration in India creates the specific quality and image of the product, which may be in the form of image or word. Today, Brands have become the single most important asset of [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Dec. 14, 2009) – Nortel(1) (OTCBB:NRTLQ) Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions (CVAS) continues to lead the global Carrier VoIP market according to Dell’Oro Group, Infonetics Research and Synergy Research. All three leading analyst firms’ recently published reports rank Nortel as the global leader with the largest revenues in the carrier [...]
MONTREAL–(Marketwire – December 14, 2009) – Atrion International today announced the availability of enhAnCE, a powerful content editor that provides users with a highly intuitive interface for augmenting and configuring specific content within the ACE? Technology Platform. enhAnCE’s simple user-friendly interface enables users with little or no computer programming skills to make their own [...]
Should I register my individual name as a federal trademark?
The unequivocal answer for celebrities, sports figures, published authors, speakers and individuals marketing goods and services under their individual names is, “Yes. “
A registration allows clients and counsel to act quickly to prevent unauthorized use of individual names for marketing of competitive goods and services, a [...]
LONDON–(Marketwire – November 25, 2009) – The percentage of the UK population that will shop online this Christmas is set to hit 86 percent, a six percent increase from 2008, according to an online YouGov survey* commissioned by VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world. The research [...]