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Intellectual Property Protection Trademarks New Regulations

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

USPTO Adopts Partial Trademark Replacement Rule to Align with Madrid Protocol

Effective July 2, 2025, the USPTO will accept requests for both full and partial replacement of earlier national trademark registrations with international registrations. Previously, the USPTO only permitted trademark holders...more

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Bahamas Now Accepting Service Mark Filings Under New Trademark Law, But Regulations Still Pending

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As of February 1, 2025, The Bahamas enacted a new Trademarks Act that, for the first time, allows service mark registrations and adopts the Nice Classification system. While this is a major step in modernizing the country’s...more

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[Webinar] Impact of Bill 96 on product trademarks: insights from new regulation, OQLF’s guidelines and discussions with the OQLF -...

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Join us for an insightful webinar on how to address the French Charter requirements for trademarks appearing on products, considering the recently issued Quebec regulation and the OQLF's new guidelines. Over this 60-minute...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

2023 China Trademark Legal and Practice Updates for Foreign Brand Owners

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In order to strengthen the protection of the intellectual property rights and improve the quality control of trademark prosecution and enforcement, China issued a number of new regulations and practice guidelines in late...more

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China: implementing regulations for new Trademark Law published - Weapons against bad faith filings upgraded, but uncertainty...

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On 11 October 2019, China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") published the Regulations on the Registration of Trademarks, which will become effective on 1 December 2019. The Regulations are implementing...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

China Publishes New Regulations To Clarify Parts Of The New Trademark Laws Which Go Into Effect On December 1st

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On October 16, 2019, the China State Administration for Market Regulation released new interim regulations in relation to normalizing trademark application behaviors, which in part define and address the “malicious trademark...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Beware of Suspicious Trademark Solicitations

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Over the past few years, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has experienced an uptick in filings of trademark applications from entities outside the United States, especially from China, that do not appear to have a...more

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Trademarks in Canada: A year of change and global harmony

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2018 was an exciting year for the trademarks profession in Canada. The long awaited changes to our Trademarks Act were announced, many of which will bring us in line this year with the rest of the world. There will also be a...more

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