How to respond to a Section 9 trademark objection
A working reply structure for the three absolute-grounds objections, and the evidence that actually moves the examiner.
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Articles about doing IP work, not describing it.
Each piece starts from a real document: an examination report, a licence, a discrepancy letter. Read it, then go draft.
Reading a patent examination report line by line
The First Examination Report has a structure. Learn it once and you will never again spend a day working out what the examiner actually wants.
The Section 11 objection: when the cited mark is nothing like yours
Relative-grounds objections are won on comparison, not adjectives. Here is how to compare marks, goods and trade channels the way the Registry does.
Drafting a trademark licence that survives a quality-control challenge
A trademark licence without real quality control can cost the licensor the mark. The clause that prevents it is four paragraphs long. Here they are.
Copyright registration in India: the discrepancy letter nobody warns you about
Form XIV is easy to file and easy to file wrong. The five discrepancies the Copyright Office raises most, and how to answer each in a page.
Design or trademark? Choosing protection for a product shape
A product shape can be a registered design, a shape mark, or neither. The order you file in decides what you end up with. A decision method for the first meeting.
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