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IMESSENGER TRADEMARK SAGA & QUIZ (IV)

on August 15, 2019

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ADS & REALITY: SURVEY

OUR FOUNDER, Dr. SRIKANTH S. KIDAMBI WITH Mr. CHARLIE CHAPLIN The below video is one good example for Ads and Reality. This ad was shown in the year, 1955, about a pill that was supposed to reduce weight. Quiz: Do you know the name of this pill? Do you know what happened to this pill? Disclaimer: This ad need not be representative of all the ads out there. via archive.org

IMESSENGER TRADEMARK SAGA CONTINUES

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THIS TRADEMARK Why did we file this trademark application in the first place? In this global stage where intellectual property practices might favor those with resources and also not bounded by the same rule of law across the world, we had our own reservations to file any trademark to save time, efforts, resources and money. But, our IMESSENGER application that provides avenue to chat and call with a decent set of features was randomly removed from the Google Play Store one fine day under the pretext that another entity had claimed likelihood of confusion of our product with theirs. The entity in question was Apple. Though there are other products with the same name, IMESSENGER added later on the Play Store which still exists, and many more variants of the same name and IMESSAGE being there in the marketplace (please see below in the "SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS" section), it made us wonder why only our product was taken out of the Play

GOOGLE VS ORACLE (CONTINUATION)

We had posted in 2017 ( please search LegalDhoom for Oracle and you will find our earlier presentation on this article ) about our concern on the use of transformative fair use favouring one company over another with regard to the Android platform. Since then, the case has evolved and it appears that everyone has pounced on it. Here is the latest story: HARVARD VIEW EFF'S VIEW UPPEREDGE'S VIEW ON WIRED.COM OURS SOON IMAGE CREDIT: Image by Frida Bredesen Photo by Frida Bredesen on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/76dgUcMupv4

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The articles presented on this website is for informative purposes only and we are neither offering any direct legal counsel nor representation through these articles. All gifs and images presented on this website were either ours created in-house or part of the websites offering free utilization/reuse of media materials and/or utilized on a transformative fair use basis.

REFERENCES:

1 . FAIR USE & GIFS FROM LEGALDHOOM (This article)
2. FAIR USE & GIFS BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY
3. FAIR USE & GIFS FROM DESIGN NERDS

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