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SPEEDO Holdings B.V. filed an opposition against a local textile manufacturer who seeked protection for a similar boomerang device. The IP Office decided that even though the counterparty set out very detailed differences between the designs, the examination needed to see the marks as a whole, from the consumer's point of view, and rejected the application.
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On Saturday, April 16th an earthquake with magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale hit the coast of Ecuador, together with over 315 replicas. While our Partner Pablo Bermeo and our International Associate Christopher Chemnitz survived at the very epicenter, there's been more than 650 casualties, over 2500 injured and countless people missing, and others left homeless.
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In Doctors Associates Inc. v. Surfway, a riptide of C&D letters, and an administrative infringement action was needed to confirm the removal of the infringing SURFWAY restaurant in one of Ecuador's main surf villages, Montañita.
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A group of “hardcore” fans called “Boca del Pozo,” supporting one of Ecuador’s main soccer teams, filed a trademark application for a design that “dressed” the famous Rolling Stones’ LIP AND TONGUE DESIGN with their team’s colors.