匿名のアーティスト「バンクシー」が作品を展示したショールームを自らオープンしました。その背景には「商標権」を巡る争いがありました。．．．バンクシーは自ら「ショップ」とうたっていますが、作品やグッズは店頭では買えず、インターネットの購入サイトも「準備中」のままになっています。バンクシーによりますと、「別の会社がバンクシーの名前を使い、商品を売ろうとしたのを防ぐためにオープンした」ということで、自身の作品を無許可で販売する業者などへの抗議の意味が込められているとみられます。
“商標権”巡り・・・ バンクシーが「ショップ」開店(19/10/03), 1:22
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has postponed until Dec. 21 a requirement that nearly all trademark applications be electronically filed and managed.
情報源: Trademark Office Delays New Digital Processing Requirement
情報源: Federal Register :: Changes to the Trademark Rules of Practice To Mandate Electronic Filing
10月5日からとされてた改正ルール〈Mandate Electronic Filing〉(84 FR 37081）の施行日は12月21日に変更されています。
以下の期間はメンテナンス等のため、特許・実用新案検索機能、簡易検索機能（四法全て、特許・実用新案）を停止させて頂きます。 ２０１９年１１月２日（土）９：００～２０１９年１１月４日（月）２１：００ なお、簡易検索機能（意匠、商標）は利用可能です。
As of 27 September 2019, The Department of Intellectual Property under the of Ministry of Commerce in Thailand (DIP) has made its trade mark data available to the TMview search tool.With DIP on board of TMview, the tool now contains data from 69 participating offices.With the addition of more than 960,000 trade marks from DIP, TMview provides information and access to more than 54.7 million trade marks in total.
“I understand they have to be aggressive about their brand, but this is overreach,” Leigh Gill, the Shorts’ lawyer, added. “No one is going to be confused.”
情報源: Under Armour trademark dispute hits family start-up company with Boise ties | ktvb.com
情報源: Under Armour Threatens a Small Oregon Business—Because They Can – Blogtown – Portland Mercury
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商標登録insideNews: アディダス「3本線」の商標権制限 EU裁判所が判断 | 日本経済新聞
アップルが米国にて”Memoji”(ミー文字)の商標登録を巡って係争中であるにもかかわらず、公式サイトに商標の保持を表記しているとして、訴訟を起こされたことが報じられています。
情報源: アップル、「Memoji」の商標登録侵害として訴えられる。係争中にもかかわらず商標リストに掲載 – Engadget 日本版
Atlanta-based company Social Technologies LLC today filed a lawsuit against Apple that accuses the iPhone maker of falsely indicating that it holds the federal registration for the trademark Memoji in the United States.
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An improved beta version of TMview (https://www.euipn.org/tmview/beta/) is now available alongside the original interface, as part of a planned improvement to the world’s biggest free trade mark search engine.The improvements are a core part of EUIPO’s European Cooperation activity in the framework of its Strategic Plan 2020, and have been developed in collaboration with the national and regional intellectual property offices of the EU.The interface has been completely redesigned after extensive user testing, allowing for a greatly enhanced navigation and search experience. In addition, the tool has a significantly improved search results display and categorisation system which allows results to be shown in order of relevance to the search terms.
情報源: Improved TMview version launched in beta
As of 1 October 2019, the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) has made its trade mark data available to the TMview search tool.With OAPI on board of TMview, the tool now contains data from 70 participating offices.With the addition of more than 26,000 trade marks from OAPI, TMview provides information and access to more than 54.8 million trade marks in total.
情報源: OAPI joins TMview
WIPO Assemblies 2019
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property (IP) services, policy, information and cooperation and is a self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 193 member states.
