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March 30, 2012
The Canadian IP Office has published a practice note indicating that it will now accept applications for sound trade marks
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February 15, 2011
Australia’s Registrar of Trade Marks has rejected an application to trade mark the colour white for juice bottles in a decision that underlines the need for strong evidence when applying for colour marks
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November 17, 2010
Japan’s IP High Court has ruled that Yakult should be granted a three-dimensional trade mark for the bottle it uses to sell its probiotic drinks
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October 08, 2010
Goats eating grass on a restaurant roof might be a surreal basis for a trade mark infringement claim, but it was just one of the many examples given in a session on non-traditional marks at the AIPPI Congress this week
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September 15, 2010
Danish toy maker Lego has lost a 14-year battle to have its building bricks protected as a Community trade mark
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August 20, 2010
Member states of the Singapore Treaty will discuss introducing harmonised rules on non-traditional trade marks when they meet in Geneva next month