Learn how IPOPHL filing under the first-to-file system helps prevent brand hijacking through early trademark registration and good-faith ownership rules.
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This is a practical guide for business owners on the defenses and exceptions to trademark infringement.
This is a practical guide for business owners on the elements, roof, what must be alleged and proven for trademark infringement.
This is a practical guide for business owners about the acts that constitute trademark infringement.
This article talks about the legal remedy against a trademark registration fraudulently obtained or made in bad faith which is to file a Petition for Cancellation of Trademark before the IPO anytime.
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This article discusses what are descriptive trademarks. Descriptive trademarks are those which consist exclusively of signs or of indications that may serve in trade to designate the kind, quality, quantity, intended purpose, value, geographical origin, time or production of the goods or rendering of the services, or other characteristics of the goods or services. Pursuant to Sec. 123(j) of the IP Code, such trademarks cannot be registered in the Philippines.
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Trademark applications are filed with the Philippine Intellectual Property Office (IPO). Filipinos or Filipino corporations may directly file their applications with the IPO. However, foreigners or foreign corporations have to appoint a local agent or representative in order to file applications with the IPO. Applying for a trademark is not like getting a business permit
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