In this paper an efficient preprocessing module has been described which focuses on building a trademark database that can be used for developing a trademark retrieval system. The preprocessing module focuses on noise removal from the trademark images using an adaptive filtering technique using Wiener filters, followed by Karhunen-Loève Transform that makes the trademark search process rotation...

Streptovaricin' is a complex of closely related antibiotics which has received extensive study in our laboratories because of its broad in vitro antibacterial spectrum, and its in vivo activity against experimental infections of mice and guinea pigs with virulent strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Siminoff et al., 1957; Whitfield et al., 1957; Rhuland et al., 1957). A number of interesting ...

The Lanham Act bars trademark infringement and false advertising in nearly identical and often overlapping language. In some circumstances, courts have interpreted the two provisions in the same way, but in other areas there has been significant doctrinal divergence, often to the detriment of the law. This Article argues that each branch of the Lanham Act offers important lessons for the other....

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A trademark image retrieval (TIR) system is proposed in this work to deal with the vast number of trademark images in the trademark registration system. The proposed approach commences with the extraction of edges using the Canny edge detector, performs a shape normalization procedure, and then extracts the global and local features. The global features capture the gross essence of the shapes w...

Background. The sports industry is comprised of a multitude of for-profit and non-profit organizations. It is therefore unsurprising that there are disputes between organizations and that some of these disputes center on the use of trademarks.  Objectives. This study seeks to identify the perceived benefits of trademark infringement law in the Thai sports industry. Methods. This study employe...