Introduction: the institute of trademark exhaustion in Russia is transformed three times: from international to national and at present force regional regime on territory ofthe Eurasian Economic Union. The initiatives last ten years parallel import legalization don’t result stable flexible Russia. Objectives: consider Russian political strategy every stage changing taking into account prioritie...

Since the enactment of the Federal Trademark Anti-Dilution Act ("FTDA") in 1996, how to measure a mark's "fame" has emerged as an important and controversial issue in trademark law. Congress did not intend the FTDA to protect trademarks unless they are "truly famous." Rather than specifically defining "famous" in the legislation, Congress provided an eight-factor fame test that courts "may" con...

In this paper we propose an efficient queried-by-example retrieval system which is able to retrieve trademark images by similarity from patent and trademark offices’ digital libraries. Logo images are described by both their semantic content, by means of the Vienna codes, and their visual contents, by using shape and color as visual cues. The trademark descriptors are then indexed by a locality...

The sub-block-based image retrieval method utilizes global and local image features to retrieve trademarks through separating individual an images into some blocks. This paper proposes a sub-block-based trademark image retrieval algorithm under the polar coordinate system. Experiment results show that our algorithm can keep excellent invariance in image translation, scaling and rotation and the...

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In the era of Information Technology, Internet plays an important role and becomes worldwide infrastructure of global communication. Domain Name is the key to reach the purpose derivable Website on the WWW. Confusion and conflict arise when words and names of Domain Name become low in resource and somehow have the same or similar identification among two or more parties. This paper provides a b...

This paper explores the overall efficacy of using trademark data as an economic indicator. The paper posits that trademarks—like other measures of innovation and technology production, such as the patent or R&D expenditures—can be used as an effective indicator of regional economic conditions. Yet, trademarks are distinct in that they are market centered. Unlike the productioncentered innovatio...