🔸 Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. (the Applicant) applied to register their trademark in Classes 29 and 30 including milk products and coffee beverages. Starbucks Corporation then opposed the registration based on three relative grounds and two absolute grounds of refusal. Essentially, the IP
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🔸 GoPro, Inc. has recently filed a notice of opposition before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (in the US) against Meifeng Chen’s application of “Highero” trademark for cameras, megaphones’ scanners etc in Class 9. GoPro reportedly claims that it owns several registered trademarks
🔸 Bev Standing, a Canadian voice actor, has sued TikTok for allegedly using her voice in the text-to-speech audio effect without her permission. After the lawsuit was filed, TikTok has changed the text-to-speech voice to a different voice. TikTok has yet to comment on this lawsuit.
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🔸 In the US, Epic Games sued a mixed-reality glasses company, Nreal over alleged trademark infringement of Epic’s own game engine “Unreal”, claiming that Nreal looks and sounds virtually identical to Unreal and is an intentional branding decision. Epic also alleges that the two companies
🔸 Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark has successfully opposed registration of “AUNTY HELEN” trademark, although she neither invented nor commercialised her nickname “AUNTY HELEN”. Ms Clark succeeded in establishing two grounds of opposition: (1) likelihood of deception and
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