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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Trademark"”.
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Trademark Dilution : an Analysis of U.S., E.U., and East Asian Trademark Law.
… The dilution theory overturns the existing trademark theory which requires a likelihood of confusion to protect marks. The conventional role of trademarks is to distinguish owners' goods from others. If there was no competition or similarity between two goods, there would be no consumer …
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An Empirical and Comparative Analysis of UK Courts and CJEU decisions in Trademark Law: defining the nature and understanding the characteristics of inconsistencies in EU Trademark law
… perspective and by having exclusive rights, trademarks like other Intellectual Property (IP) rights provide opportunities for goods and services to acquire monopolistic attributes which exist in a state of tension with market norms of free competition. As a result, this facilitates legal …
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Administrative enforcement and criminal and civil decisions regarding trademark counterfeiting in China
… criminal sanctions, and civil protections on trademark counterfeiting in China. In 2013, the trademark law of China revised to include specific calculation methods for illegal business volume (IBV) in trademark cases, an increased cap on statutory damages from ¥500,000 (or $71,000) to …
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The re-introduction of an opposition procedure in Maltese Trademark Law : a burden or a blessing?
… a significant procedural reform in Maltese Trademark Law which has been brought about by the harmonisation of Directive (EU) 2015/2436 and constitutes the re-introduction of an opposition procedure. The study will briefly trace the background of Maltese Trademark Law and its evolution …
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Islamic Public Policy and Morality Principles and Their Effect on Trade Mark Registration and Protection in the Light of the TRIPS Agreement
… effects of Islamic public policy and morality on trademarks registration and protection under the Islamic legal system. Public policy and morality play an affective role in determining whether or not a trademark can be recognised as such and is one of the important criteria in determining …
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The problematic nature of unregistered trademarks: an insight of Zambian law with comparative lessons from the South African jurisdiction
Unregistered trademarks are an important aspect of trademark law. Historically, the origins and use of trademarks dates to medieval times and the early developments are particularly obscure. Some legal scholars have however argued that it seems the Courts first began to protect ‘marks at the behest …
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Essays on innovation and public policy
… chapter analyzes how tax rates on patent- and trademark-related income affect where patents and trademarks are located internationally. I study how changes in patent and trademark tax rates in various countries altered the flow of patents and trademarks in and out of the countries. Using data …
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Comparative advertising between the conflicting priorities of fair competition, trademark holder's rights and consumer information under South African law compared to the European and German approach on this issue
… the task to balance antagonistic interests of trademark proprietors, advertisers, consumers and the public at large. The thesis examines the South African, the European and the German legal system implemented a legal balance and presents consequences, commonalities and differences. After …
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MaJIC: A MATLAB Just-in-Time Compiler
1MATLAB is a trademark of The Mathworks, Inc.
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Empirical study of the aesthetic functionality on color trademarks
Although trademark law permits the protection of “trade dress” (distinctive product shape, ornamentation, and packaging), the enforcement of too strong a property can stifle competition. U.S. courts apply the “aesthetic functionality” doctrine in trademark infringement cases to address this …
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Implications of Branding Initiatives in Higher Education Among Trademarked Institutions in California
… commonly implement branding initiatives through trademark-licensing programs due to competition and infringements that mocked their services or marks. Specifically, corporations across the world wanted to be unique from others that might have similar offerings. Likewise, many college institutions …
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Adaptation of a fault–tolerant FPGA–based launch sequencer as a CubeSat payload processor
… of the processor. The Virtex–5 (registered trademark of Xilinx, Inc.) is selected over the ProASIC3 (registered trademark of Microsemi, Inc.) due to its enhanced capabilities and potential to support expansion for future applications. The hardware design is presented as a hybrid Verilog and …
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The role of trademarks and geographical Indications in advancing economic development in developing countries in Africa: an investigation into Zimbabwe and South Africa
… in Africa can begin to think about using trademarks and geographical indications for SMEs and small scale farmers. The international legal framework for the protection of trademarks and geographical indications has shaped the national legal regimes of countries. There is, however, …
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Language variation and change: A case study of Shaba Swahili
… Any deviations from these norms are perceived as trademark of colloquialism, corruption, deterioration and/or sub-standardness. In the Zairian province of Shaba, the variety of Swahili used is characterized by a multiplicity of deviations at all grammatical levels. This variety, commonly known as …
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Intellectual property law and development in Namibia: harnessing the law on geographical indications in the realization of vision 2030
… out the national and international framework for trademark protection as this is one of the vehicles some countries, including Namibia, have opted to use to protect GIs. Additionally, a comparative examination of the approaches of South Africa and India in the protection of GIs is undertaken to …
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Cognitive feature fusion for effective pattern recognition in multi-modal images and videos
… and small object detection from videos. Trademark/logo image retrieval (TLIR) as a branch of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has drawn wide attention for many years. However, most TLIR methods are derived from CBIR methods which are not designed for trademark and logo images, simply …
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Innovation and governance mechanisms of restaurant franchise systems
… systems are approximated by the systems’ trademark registrations, whose data are obtained from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. By incorporating the trademark data, this dissertation finds that the design of governance mechanisms is related to the number of innovations being developed by …
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An analysis of the registration of traditional product names, terms, symbols and other cultural expressions as trademarks in Namibia
… that use the traditional terms of products as trademarks. Despite the fact that some of these terms are not registered with the Ministry of Trade and Industries, these owners enjoy common law protection under trademark law. This is especially so for well-known products such as Omaere milk, …
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