The personalities of members of the team have become well-known to regular viewers, along with such trademarks as the " Sivart van " ( an old-style delivery truck labeled sivart, ' Travis ' spelled in reverse ), which the team arrives in ; Debbie's reveal of a possibly-controversial design to skeptical family members ; and the ' facelift book ', a small scrapbook presented to the target after the renovation is revealed, showing what they missed during their absence.

Passing off is a form of common law, whereas statutory law such as the United Kingdom Trade Marks Act 1994 provides for enforcement of registered trademarks through infringement proceedings.

It generally refers to statutory creations such as copyright, trademarks, or patents.

" Well-known " trademarks are also now recognised under Chinese law ( the courts and administrative bodies will take into account the level of knowledge of the trademark by relevant consumers, the length of use of the trademark, the amount of publicity given to the mark in China, and the history of the mark ).

In rare circumstances, a conflict will arise between trademarks that have been in use since before the Lanham Act went into effect, thus requiring the courts to examine the dispute according to the trademark act that existed before the Lanham Act.

The word cola may have been introduced into mainstream culture by the major producer Coca-Cola, as it saw its trademark slipping into common use, like other genericized trademarks.

Because they are systems of government-granted monopolies, copyrights, patents, and trademarks are called intellectual monopoly privileges, ( IMP ) a topic on which several academics, including Birgitte Andersen and Thomas Alured Faunce have written.

The names " Walkman ", " Pressman ", " Watchman ", " Scoopman ", " Discman ", and " Talkman " are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company.

In the 21st century, coats of arms are still in use by a variety of institutions and individuals ; for example, universities have guidelines on how their coats of arms may be used, and protect their use as trademarks.

Generally these brands or trademarks will offer a choice of white, bi-color and yellow varieties which otherwise have very similar characteristics.

In recent times many ICRAs have also recorded trade designations and trademarks used in labelling plant material, to avoid confusion with established names.

This style would serve as one of Rubin's production trademarks and would have a great impact on future hip-hop productions.

** Most brand names and trademarks are capitalized ( e. g., Coca-Cola, Pepsi ) although some have chosen to deviate from standard rules ( e. g., easyJet, id Software, eBay, iPod ) to be distinctive.

A few examples of trademarks that have lost their legal protection in the US are:

Other trademarks have come close to genericization, but have been rescued by aggressive corrective campaigns.

In order to prove that the historic trademarks are still enforceable, some railroads have begun painting pieces of rolling stock in the liveries of their constituent railroads.

Two railroads, specifically Union Pacific and CSX Transportation, have filed suits in U. S. court to prevent the use of their trademarks or their historic trademarks by model manufacturers without first obtaining a license to reproduce the marks.

Model manufacturers argue that the historic trademarks have been out of use so long that they are abandoned and therefore available to use freely.

Suspiria is noteworthy for several stylistic flourishes that have become Argento trademarks.

The tour and album plans of ' Bachman & Turner ' have resulted in a lawsuit by Rob Bachman and Blair Thornton regarding ownership of the band name and related trademarks.

Google and MoveOn have been accused of selective adherence to trademark law for removing ads from Google Adwords for Maine Senator Susan Collins, citing infringement of MoveOn trademarks.

The United States Patent Office does not have any live trademarks registered for the word " teleprompter ", but this does not rule out the possibility of a company enforcing the trademark without registering it.

Accordingly, several groups have taken this source code and compiled their own versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, typically with the only changes being the removal of any references to Red Hat's trademarks and pointing the update systems to non-Red Hat servers.

" Cordtex " and " Primacord " are two of many trademarks which have slipped into use as a generic term for this material.

One of the main problems concerning trademarks and domain names in unrestricted TLDs and gTLDs is that of trademarks in general: the rights of the trademark owner have to be asserted in order to protect the trademark.

These trademarks have been sub-licensed to MVED by Maharishi Foundation Ltd., a UK non-profit organization.

His voice became a fixture of both Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards, and his expression " Give that fan a contract ", uttered whenever a fan caught a foul ball, was one of his trademarks – the other being his distinct " Thank Yooooou ..." following every announcement ( He was also known on occasion to say " Give that fan an error " after a dropped foul ball ).

Guinness started using the harp as an image on its labels in 1862 and registered two trademarks in London in 1876, both of which used the harp as part of the image.

Specifically, both trademarks and patents are protected under federal statutes, the Lanham Act and Patent Act, respectively.

Explicitly violent and / or sexual content and social satire are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films.

Since then, the league has maintained effective control over both the trophy itself and its associated trademarks.

In late 1968, RCA modernized its image with a new futuristic-looking logo ( the letters RCA in block modernized form ), replacing the old lightning bolt logo, and the virtual retirement of both the Victor and Nipper trademarks.

As a result, WCW programming was canceled on both TBS and TNT, leaving Vince McMahon's company, which at the time had an exclusive deal with Viacom, free to acquire the trademarks, video libraries and a few contracts.

Registered and non-registered trademarks are both eligible for protection under the Lanham Act.

The court ruled that Grosset had the rights to publish the original series of both Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys as they were in print in 1980, but did not own characters or trademarks.

The terms ' X-Type ' and ' Hollowtech II ' are both used to refer to any design of this type, but are in fact trademarks of the corporations marketing the systems.

For example, when Wolfe's Borough Coffee, Inc., a New Hampshire-based coffee company, sold its coffee under the trademarks that included the words “ Charbucks Blend ” and " Mr. Charbucks ," Starbucks Corporation sued, claiming that the use of the word “ Charbucks ” diluted the “ Starbucks ” mark by both blurring and tarnishment.

A juridical battle between the far-right Front National and Bruno Mégret's splinter party, the National Republican Movement ( MNR ), for the name, " Front national ," in December 1998 and January 1999, prompted the satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, to outrace both by deposing at the National Industrial Property Institute ( INPI ), the national institute in charge of trademarks, the term " Front National ," in order to give its juridical ownership back to the original Resistance movement of that name.

Becker's compositions often include high speed scalar and arpeggio passages, both of which are trademarks of his ' shred ' style of guitar playing.

However, both Super Dollfie and Dollfie are registered trademarks and should only be used for Volks products.

After threatening legal action for the continuation of the Short List brand under the New Pantheon guise, Spotts returned and purchased both trademarks, uniting the two titles under the Shortlist Music Prize.

WTC is also the owner of numerous " Ironman " related trademarks used both in connection with Ironman race series ' and in conjunction with various goods and services.

In at least one court case involving patents, trademarks and registration of designs, the term " block letters " was found to include both upper and lower case.

The " Travel Bug " word mark and the travel bug logo are both registered trademarks of Groundspeak, the parent company which owns the domain Geocaching. com.

Some of the most popular FOSS projects are owned by corporations that, unlike the FSF, use both patents and trademarks to enforce their rights.

Items can be covered by both trademarks and design patents.

Apple, however, continues to require native compatibility with both PowerPC and Intel in order to grant third-party software publishers permission to use Apple's trademarks related to Universal binaries.

Popular engravings, including the famous portrait done by Winterhalter, spread the idea, and by the 1870s, the sailor suit had become normal dress for both boys and girls all over the world, and Some Western cartoon and comic characters use a sailor suit as their trademarks ; examples include Popeye, Donald Duck and Spoilt Bastard.

Frangos were created by Seattle, Washington's Frederick & Nelson department store in 1918 ; the company and Frango trademarks were both acquired by Chicago's Marshall Field's department store, which introduced its recipe in 1929.