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In late October 2021, Facebook made a huge announcement. That it was changing the company name to “Meta” or “Meta Platforms”. The reason was to refocus the company around bringing “the Metaverse to life”, declared CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. The term is e...

Trademark squatting, or bad faith Trademark filing, is essentially when a third-party files and registers a Trademark merely to sell it for a profit later to someone who actually needs it and/or wants to use it. The original applicant then faces enormous challenges in registering in that country s...

Remember when our parents used to say, “I’ll search that on the Google”? Google has become a verb. We do not search something on “the Google” anymore, we “Google it”. So, what happens when you “Google something”? We get search results based o...

Doja Cat’s 2021 hit song ‘Kiss Me More’ sounds familiar, right? You may or may not have been alive at the time but it’s because its melody comes from the 80’s hit popular song ‘Physical’ by Olivia Newton-John. Does the guitar melody in ‘Lady (Hear M...

There are around 296 registered trade Marks that include the word "Ugg" in Australia. In the land down under, the word UGG has become a generic term for those awesome boots we all cannot wait to put on as soon as winter arrives. As we know, generic terms are not eligible to be registere...