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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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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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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Friday 26 June 2020
It’s a drizzly winter day here in Auckland. Like last time I wrote, I’m working from home, even though we are now permitted to head back to our CBD office, with New Zealand currently at the lowest level of Covid-19 alert. Our team worked incredibly hard during our country’s two-month lockdown. Development sped up rather […]
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Friday 12 June 2020
The UK High Court’s Final Judgment Earlier this year, we covered the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) preliminary ruling in the Sky v SkyKick case in a webinar and related blog post. The UK High Court recently issued its final ruling. Why has this case been considered so significant across the trademark […]
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Friday 17 April 2020
There’s a proverb that says, “If you know you can do better, then do better.” At Sortify.tm, our goal is to help you to do what you do better and faster and the FIND CLASSES tool does that! Despite all the current disruption and adjustments we’re making to working from home, trademark professionals like you […]
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