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Feb 20, 2020
Yesabel Cavero, OMC Abogados & Consultores, Peru

Phantom Marks, the Twilight Zone of Intellectual Proper...


Yesabel Cavero, OMC Abogados & Consultores, PeruThe situation of these marks is not as spooky as actual ghouls haunting at cemeteries or abandoned houses, but they still cause many trademark offices to run off and refuse their submission. These trademarks contain “phantom” or changeable elements in their denominations usually represented by inserting a blank (in figurative marks), or by using dots, dashes, underlining, or a designation such as "XXXX" (in denominative marks). An overly known example of these, is the American trademark “----- For Dummies”, used in an extensive and varied set of  read more