Thursday 02 September 2021
Auckland, NZ, September 1st, 2021 – Fast-growing New Zealand legal-tech start-up Sortify.tm plans to further expand its international reach as part of a transformational investment from major Australasian IP Group, QANTM Intellectual Property Limited. Sortify.tm will build on the global reach of its direct to consumer (D2C) online trade mark registration platforms as well as […]
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Friday 13 November 2020
With the steep growth in manufacture and sale of Covid-19-related products, IP offices have proactively taken steps to clarify which classes these emerging goods and services fall into, depending on their specific use or purpose. Trademark registries across the globe have deleted pre-approved goods and services which were deemed too vague and added a bunch […]
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Thursday 17 September 2020
Reclassifying trademarks can be monotonous, tedious work, yet it’s important that trademarks are reclassified as accurately as possible to be IP Office-compliant. Trademark reclassification is not always straightforward when you’re dealing with: specifications that have hundreds of different terms needing reclassification terms that are permitted across multiple classes punctuation issues (especially in older specifications before […]
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Friday 11 September 2020
During the month of August, John Hackett, brand ambassador at Sortify.tm and a globally renowned trademark attorney, conducted a survey to find out what trademark professionals are up against in their day-to-day work. John asked his extensive network to answer a series of 5 questions on LinkedIn, posted individually and a few days apart. A […]
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Wednesday 02 September 2020
It’s no secret that software improves the way we do our jobs, but in a world where we are constantly bombarded with new apps and tools, we often think it’s easier just to stick to what we know than to adopt new trademark software tools. In human behavior, this reluctance to accept technological change and […]
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Thursday 16 July 2020
When Canada’s trademark law changed in June 2019, Oyen Wiggs was confronted with the daunting task of handling the reclassification of thousands of existing trademarks that they administer. Jennifer A. Marles, partner, recognized that Oyen Wiggs needed to find software to streamline this task. “We really needed something that could help us classify quickly,” she […]
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