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Celebrating a lifetime in trademark law
World Trademark Report's print companion magazine, World Trademark Review, announced the winners of its 2008 Industry Awards for in-house counsel in Berlin in May, with ExxonMobil's Dee Ann Weldon-Wilson receiving the Lifetime Achievement award. In this interview she explains how she became one of the leading figures in the trademark community, and outlines her hopes for the future of the industry and the law.
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(04/07/2008)
The Estonian Board of Appeal has upheld an opposition against the registration of the trademark NETROO on the grounds that there was a likelihood of confusion with the earlier registered trademark METROO. Among other things, the board held that the conceptual difference between the words 'netroo' and 'metroo' did not counteract the phonetic and visual similarity between the marks.
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(04/07/2008)
In Telstra Corporation Limited v E-Promote, a Domain Name Commission expert has ordered the transfer of the domain names 'telstaclear.co.nz', 'telsraclear.co.nz' and 'telstarclear.co.nz' to Telstra Corporation Limited. According to the expert, the inference that the domain names were registered with misspellings of Telstra's trademarks in order to direct traffic to the registrant's websites was inescapable.
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(04/07/2008)
In Patel v Allos Therapeutics Inc, the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wales has ruled in favour of Allos Therapeutics Inc, the owner of the ALLOS mark. Among other things, the court held that the plaintiff could not succeed because he used a domain name containing the ALLOS mark without indicating that it was a protest site.
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(03/07/2008)
The Nigerian Trademark and Patent Registry has released a new issue of the Trademarks Journal, which is the first to be published this year. Controversially, the new issue does not include the specification of the goods and services covered by the advertised trademarks. On the other hand, service marks applications have been published for the first time.
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(03/07/2008)
The Taipei High Administrative Court has affirmed a decision of the Intellectual Property Office in which the latter had ordered the cancellation of adidas AG's trademark ADIDAS (and three-stripe design) on the grounds that it was confusingly similar to Lutong Enterprise Corp's trademarks JUMP 將門 (and three-stripe design).
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(03/07/2008)
In Designer Skin LLC v S & L Vitamins Inc, a US district court has rejected a claim of initial interest confusion in a case involving the use of a trademark in metatags. The district court was "not persuaded" by the reasoning of the Tenth Circuit in Australian Gold Inc v Hatfield, in which the court had held for the manufacturer/trademark owner under similar circumstances.
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