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Consideration of Non-Traditional Trademarks in Branding Strategy
Many are surprised to learn that a scent can be a trademark. For example, toy and board game company Hasbro has registered the “Play-Dough” scent mark, which it described as “a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.” The Play-Dough scent mark is…
The Unappreciated Value of Design Patents
By: Dr. Dariush Adli Design patents are often treated as the forgotten sibling of their better known and more popular utility patents. That is unfortunate because it fails to give proper recognition to the tremendous potential of design patents to add value to a business’s bottom line. Relative to utility patents, design patents are inexpensive…