Talkin' Marks

In this episode, your Talkin’ Marks co-hosts are joined by Professor Jorij Abraham, Managing Director of the Ecommerce Foundation, which includes Scamadviser. Together they look at how the Ecommerce industry is combating online counterfeiting and infringement in today’s rapidly expanding global online marketplaces.

In this episode, your Talkin’ Marks co-hosts are joined by Company Secretary and Director General of the UK Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG), Phil Lewis. Together they cover possible strategies to combat both the act of counterfeiting — and the counterfeiters themselves!

Interested in how Brexit will impact the IP market now the transition period has ended? Talkin’ Marks has you covered! Brexit Briefing highlights the important consequences for trademark attorneys and businesses. This episode stars special guest Chris McLeod, Chartered trademark attorney, and Partner at Elkington and Fife LLP, past President of CITMA, member of INTA, and an active member of Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG).

Episode seven has just dropped! In this segment your Talkin’ Marks co-hosts are joined by special guest Tobias Hartmann, CEO of Corsearch - global trademark, brand protection, and domain name solutions provider.Together they take a look at how global reach, human experience, and legal technology tools are helping IP professionals to reframe their working dynamics today.Envisioning the future of IP law together.

We are covering the issue of immoral and scandalous trademarks and focus on what are they today and what will the future hold for those trademarks. We will cover precedent decisions in the US such as REDSKINS-SLANTS and IANCU-BRUNETTI. We will also look at the recent decision FACK JU GOHTE from the EU. Joining us in the discussion is Colin Manning, Lecturer at the Cork Institute of Technology and an EU trademark attorney. Colin has written his thesis on "The Moral Bars on Trade Mark Registration" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2875687

Our fifth episode covers the important concepts of distinctiveness and descriptiveness in trademark law. Your co-hosts take a look at the recent booking.com decision in the US, as well as some similar cases in the EU - including XOXO. And, they also briefly examine and discuss the legal framework of distinctiveness and descriptiveness in EU harmonized regulations.

Special guest, Mikael Kolehmainen, who is CEO & Co-founder and former corporate and intellectual property attorney, unpacks the issues of artificial intelligence in trademark searching, watching and portfolio management with your podcast co-hosts. How AI and legal technology are changing and improving the trademark industry? Listen and find out!

Today we discuss genericness and touch on the USPTO vs Booking.com case.

Today we discuss geographical indications and their importance.

Today we discuss non-traditional trademarks such as sound, taste and smell, colour, and motion.