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Interesting funny Ad posters !

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These are 'On the job' hand lotion advertising poster. 

3 hands are working with hard materials and look so tough. On the job hand lotion heals these chapped hands. To show dry and rough working hands, the company reminds the necessity of good hand lotion.

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Rowenta's vacuum advertising poster shows a funny, easy and non-violent way to hunt ducks. Three catchers are hunting ducks. But one of them is holding something different to others and he is only one who gets a duck. This ad emphasizes the power of their product with a funny situation.

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Everyone can see that FedEex delivers packages quickly and safely as a man hand it over to customers. Two fragile products are delivered by a man in a box and they are perfectly fine without any scratch.  

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Weekly Korean IP Headlines 02.28. 2013

Asia Economy reported on 21st, KIPO’s patent information search and electronic filing education project though visitation is popular. The project is popular because professional instructors from Korea Institute of Patent Information to the remote area and the fee are free.  According to KIPO, the education project started from 2007, made 750 times of education for small and medium companies, universities, local IP center, and business incubators. 

Basic course curriculums are ▲patent and utility model search, ▲ trademark & design search, ▲electric filing of patent and utility model, ▲ electric filing of trademark & design.  There are also advanced course curriculums such as ▲ patent search (international patent), ▲ electric filing (PCT), ▲ electric filing (Madrid), etc.

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AVING Global Netwrok reported on 22nd, Korean Invention Promotion Association announced that they will host ‘2013 Invention Education Conference’ from February 27th to 28th at Seoul Educational Cultural Center for teaching staffs.  At this event, the case of US and Japan will be presented with simultaneous interpretation.  The conference will provide creative invention education teaching skills and good education operation model for invention education teaching staffs.  The participation fee is free.  Download format and apply through the website of the Korean Invention Promotion Association (KIPA: www.kipa.org) for the registration. Clcik here for the original article.

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A musician spends $30,000 to cancel 'power hour' trademark

▲ Power Hour Album on amazon

An independent musician from Pittsburgh, Ali Spagnola, has won the cancellation of the ‘Power Hour' drinking game trademark. She spent $30,000 of her own money on the case for 3 years, Forbes reported.

An independent musician Ali Spagnola wrote many drinking songs and played them at her “Power Hour” concerts. She sold some products and CDs as well. Then Spagnola faced a legal problem with the term of ‘power hour’ which already had trademarked by a company. She took this issue to the courts claiming that ‘power hour’ was a general term and had wide use.

““Essentially, my argument was that ‘Power Hour’ is not entitled to trademark protection because it is the commonly known name for a drinking game in which one shot of beer is consumed for one minute for a period of one hour,” Spagnola’s attorney, William Lang IV, told Alex Knapp of Forbes.

Finally U.S Patent and Trademark Office agreed that ‘power hour’ was not a legitimate trademark.

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Zynga Sues game company Imagenesis for use of ‘ville’

 ▲ Farmville

Zynga which owns famous social media games ‘CityVille’, ‘PetVille’ nad ‘FarmVille’ filed the lawsuit against Imagenesis Corp. for using its ‘ville’ trademarks. Imagenesis Corp. is going to launch a new game named ‘MafiaVille’, Intellectualpropertynews.com reported.

Zynga claimed that over 65 million people already played its "Ville" games on Facebook and mobile phone apps before Imagenesis named their game as ‘MafiaVille’. 

Imagenesis decided to use the name ‘Mafiaville’ and filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Imagenesis also filed for a declaratory judgment that ‘MafiaVille’ does not infringe Zynga's trademarks. However, Imagenesis failed to have counsel appear on its behalf and the action was dismissed, Intellectualpropertynews added.

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‘Batsman’ can be used for cricket goods because of ‘Batman’

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The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has rejected the trademark ‘Batsman' because the mark is similar to DC Comics' ‘Batman' and it would cause consumer confusion, dailymail.com reported.

Adelphoi Ltd, a London based sound and design company, wanted to use the name Batsman for their cricket goods but judge said that the two terms 'may easily be mistaken for one another'. Intellectual Property Office adjudicator Oliver Morris added that 'The marks look (and sound) so close that the difference in concept is likely to go unnoticed. If the difference goes unnoticed then the conceptual difference has no material effect. There is a likelihood of confusion.', dailymail wrote.

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eBay Sued for allegedly infringing

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eBay Inc. was sued for allegedly infringing patents that related to the display of auction information online technology, tamebay.com reported. Patent-holding company Advanced Auctions LLC claimed that eBay used their technology to update bid and pricing information in the last hour of an auction. 

Advanced Auctions LLC explained that “eBay’s webpages present bidders with information regarding the time remaining in the auction and the current bid amount. Before the final hour of the auction, Defendant eBay does not automatically update its webpages with this information. Rather, the bidder must manually refresh their browser to request and obtain current auction information. In the final hour of the auction, this information is automatically updated“, in their complaint, Tamebay said. Advanced Auctions is seeking for a judgment that eBay’s infringement, damages and injunction preventing.

Ebay had patent infringement issue in July 2010. EBay was sued for $3.8 billion by XPRT Ventures that accused eBay of stealing information shared in confidence by the inventors on XPRT's own patents. Read more about this issue on Reuters.

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Patented Chocolate

We cannot skip the chocolate posting in February!! The history of chocolate article by WPTZ.com notes that the origin of chocolate was drink.  Old Mayans had been were drinking chocolate, which comes from fermented, roasted and ground cacao beans, ‘Chocolatel’.


© hozinja | Chocolate bonbon

There are patents related to Chocolate manufacturing.  Let’s take a look at what are the patented technologies related to Chocolate. 

In Korea, there is patented chocolate made with tangerines. Jeju Island is famous for its well-known local products, tangerine.  The chocolate made with Jeju tangerine is famous souvenir for tourists.  With its popularity, Jeju Island is planning to export tangerine chocolate in the global market. 


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Traditionally, Korean ginseng is considered the best in the world.  The taste of ginseng root is sweetish at first and with a bitter after taste.  Here, the ginseng chocolate keeps the effectiveness of ginseng and better to have ginseng as sweets. 
There are even more patented manufacturing chocolate technologies all around the world.  What are your country’s unique chocolates?  


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WIPS Selected as PCT International Application Investigation Agency

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WIPS Co. Ltd., improved as a PCT International Application investigation service agency by Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO).

 

WIPS is a specialized agency which has a well-organized prior art investigation system,

 patent investigation experts and systematized security system for the investigation works. 

 

WIPS will conduct prior art investigation, international investigation research paper,

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Weekly Korean IP Headlines 02.20. 2013

According to KIPO, Korean singer psy’s management company, YG Entertainment recently applied additional application of ‘Gangnam Style’ trademarks for 20 items.  According to the original article from AsiaEconomy, YG previously applied trademarks for 40 items including fruit juice, beer, and cocktail drink etc.  Currently, there are 16 Gangnam Style trademarks in English and 39 trademarks in Korean. YG is aggressively applying trademark applications because some Korean domestic companies are applying trademark applications without paying loyalties to YG Entertainment. For instance, Korean Crown Bakery already applied ‘Crown Gangnam Style’ trademarks which is a slight modification of ‘Gangnam Style’ for 20 items including pudding, peanut cracker, rice cake, biscuit and etc. Meanwhile, applying ‘Gangnam Style’ trademark itself is deniable due to the word ‘Gangnam’ is the name of special place in Korea. Check out the original article from AsiaEconomy here.


 © YG Entertainment E-Shop  | Psy's Gangnam Style Character Goods

Korean cities Moonkyoung and Youngju are famous for their well-known local products, apples.  Not long ago, there were fight between those two cities because of their promotional words and phrases for apples.  Since 2010, Moonkyoung city used the phrase, ‘The Moonkyoung Apple that Snow White Loved’ to promote their apple.  However, Youngju city also used the phrase ‘The Youngju Apple Smitten by Snow White’ and advertised with this phrase since 2012.  Since both cities used the word ‘Snow White,’ customers got confused by that.  Moonkyoung city remonstrated against Youngju city for using the word, ‘Snow White’ since Moonkyoung city registered the trademark registration first. KIPO also gave an authoritative interpretation for this matter which could be a trademark violation if anyone uses the ‘Snow White’ other than Moonkyoung city.  Eventually, Youngju city gave up using ‘Snow White’ for its promotion and remove all those promotion phrases from their advertisement.  Korean Kyounghyang News reported.  Check out the original Korean article here. 

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Tiffany & Co. Sues Costco for selling fake rings

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A luxury American multinational jewelry and silverware corporation Tiffany & Co. has filed a trademark infringement suit against brand-discount retailer Costco Wholesale, Wall Street Journalreported. Tiffany & Co. is seeking millions in damages from Costco for selling counterfeit engagement diamond ring labeled ‘Tiffany Platinum’.  

Tiffany sells its jewelry only at its own retail stores. The fake rings were determined because Tiffany has microscopic laser inscription on its diamonds. The rings from Costco were not engraved with the Tiffany & Co. trademark.

Costco immediately removed all products right after Tiffany & Co. contact last December. But Tiffany said it decided to file suit after because Costco had sold rings for "many years," according to the lawsuit, WSJ added.

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Creative products with simple ideas.

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This is very simple but useful item for all food stores which sell French fries. Usually people pour ketchup on the papers and it doesn’t look so good and clean. This new french fries box has space to have ketchup and also has a presser for the ketchup to be poured nicely. All ketchup will be poured out without getting dirt on your hands when you squeeze it.

▲ fogring

This mini sized donut is a humidifier that can floats on water. Its weight is only 35 gram and it is easy to connect with USB. This Fogring is small and doesn’t have fixed water tank, so it is easy to carry. Available in various colors, the portable humidifier prevents the propagation of germs, is easy to clean and can also be used as an aroma diffuser.

▲ inewidea.com

This mobile phone accessory has a hand and arm that holds your mobile. It can be hanged around the neck or fixed in variety ways, so your hands are free to do other things.

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Mary Kay and Michael Kors Trademark Fight

▲ Michael Kors mark charm

Mary Kay and Michael Kors are going to have legal fight over use of initials ‘MK’ for their cosmetic products. Mary Kay sued Michael Kors and claimed injunction and damages for breach of contract, courthousenews.com reported.

The two companies already had legal issues. In 2005, they settled a dispute over Kors’ use of ‘MK’ marks and Kors twice asked in 2011 to register the MK charm logo mark, but Mary Kay refused, according to courthouse.

Mary Kay, Inc. is a privately held company and sells cosmetics products. According to Direct Selling News, Mary Kay was the sixth largest direct selling company in the world in 2011.

Michael Kors had legal issues with TonyDuquette for trademark infringement after Kors allegedly used Duquette’s name and images in his collection in 2009.  

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Completed Patent Portfolio Analysis of Samsung and Apple by WIPS

Smartphone market leaders, Samsung and Apple!!



© WIPS Co. Ltd., | The Cover of the Report

In April 2011, Apple filed patent lawsuits against Samsung for infringement on a number of Apple’s technology patents and design rights. Since then, two companies’ patent disputes have been intensified so far.

This case raised many issues like approval of Trade Dress and left a difficult assignment of FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) licensing agreements to patent experts.

Then, what are both Samsung and Apple’s actual degree of obtained patents and what are their patent strategies?

WIPS Analyzed Samsung and Apple’s Patent Portfolio with WIPS Global Advanced (WGA).

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Facebook Facing Legal Action Over 'Like' button

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Facebook, one of popular social networking sites, is facing legal action over its ‘Like' button. Dutch patent-holding company claims that Facebook uses the button without permission which they already used on Surfbook website, UPI reported.

The widow of a Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer sues Facebook for using like button and other patented technology that her husband developed. Rembrandt, a patent holding company, said that Van Der Meer granted the patents in 1998 befor Facebook was created and Facebook had no comment about this legal action, UPI wrote.

Surfbook was an early social networking service created by Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van der Meer in the years prior to his death in June 2004. Surfbook was based on technologies whose patents were filed by Van der Meer in 1998[2] and granted in 2001 and 2002.[3] It allowed users share their information with selected people and approve posts using a "Like" button, and to link to external information. (information source on Wikipedia) 

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