Joint Cooperation Between The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia And The People’s Republic Of China In The Field Of Intellectual Property

The first Arab-China Summit was held on December 9, 2022, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the aim of developing relations between the two sides in various fields.

The agreement includes putting the directives into practice, through the executive programs of the Arab-Chinese Cooperation Forum emphasizing the importance of cooperation in the next stage in various political, economic, social, and development fields as well as intellectual property rights.

Earlier, SAIP signed a MoU for cooperation in the […]

By | March 20th, 2023 ||

Implementation Of The Limitation Of Goods And Services By The Turkish Patent And Trademark Office

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (‘office’) applies the Nice Classification for the classification of goods and services in the registration process of national and international trademarks.

Undertakings try to avoid possible conflicts by, for example, restricting their trademarks to the area in which they operate and/or differentiating the goods and services within the scope of their trademark from those covered by earlier similar trademarks. In other words, undertakings aim to circumvent the trademark rights and fields […]

By | February 8th, 2023 ||

Schwab v. Schwab UDRP Results In Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Decision

Illustrating the dangers of filing a UDRP complaint where the domain registrant’s name and the asserted trademark are identical, a recent Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”) decision denied the complaint, with a two-panelist majority finding the complaint failed to establish two of the three UDRP elements.

Complainant Charles Schwab has offered financial services under its SCHWAB and SCHWAB-formative marks for almost four decades. Respondent Simon Schwab, claiming to be an entrepreneur who began providing loans […]

By | February 8th, 2023 ||