6 Famous Catchphrases That Were Trademarked
While everybody knows that businesses must trademark slogans, logos, product names, and more, what about celebrities’ trademarked famous catchphrases? The word “catchphrase” translates with difficulty into other languages, as do the phrases themselves since often the original meaning is lost in translation.
Patenting Machine Translation Techniques
Patenting Machine Translation. Have you heard of that term before? Can you patent an action? No, but you can patent a method of how to implement an action – and that’s just what Google is doing as they push their machine translation capabilities further and further…
Literary Translation Spotlight: The Vegetarian
Sometimes people forget that translation services are more than just a mechanical process for documents. In fact, even with the most technical translations, a great deal of creative thought must go into the work in order to maintain meanings and proper language usage. Literary translation takes this to a whole new level, with some people even regarding translated works as separate pieces all together…
Localized Translation of Trademarks: Can You Trademark A Word?
A localized translation of trademarks, like slogans, may be a common step for many global companies. After all, with a saturated global market, it is likely that there will be competition not only in a business’ home country, but also across boarders. But where does the line get drawn for international IP protection – and how does this relate to the localization and translation services?
Who Really Owns The Rights To The English Translated “The Girl From Ipanema”?
While everybody’s eyes may have been on supermodel Gisele Bundchen at the Rio 2016 Olympics opening ceremony on August 5, what they were listening to happened to be the one of the most popular songs in history. “The Girl From Ipanema,” written in Rio de Janeiro by Antonio Carlos Jobim, is rumored to be about a Rio native Jobim was particularly infatuated with in the summer of 1962, when he wrote this incredibly successful song. Most people in the U.S. know the English version of the song, but does anyone actually know who owns the copyright for this translation?
Are IP Standards in ASEAN Countries Rising?
Can economic disparity and inconsistent IP standards among member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) be reconciled to successfully achieve unity?
Can You Copyright Translations?
Translation and language localization services have become even more important as companies expand their businesses and ideas globally. These services can include everything from legal translation to marketing localization. However, every language service company that handles projects like that should be careful when it comes to copyright translations. In an attempt to increase its global reach, one well-known, American fast food restaurant went beyond a simple business translation and stumbled instead into trademark infringement.
10 Clever Japanese Inventions
How Japanese Inventions are different from any other inventions?The definition of an invention according to Japanese patent law is “the highly advanced creation of technical ideas utilizing the law of nature”. Japan has an exceptionally robust industry for “idea products”, known as “aidea shohin” in Japanese, which are products that are convenient to own but not practical enough for retailers to sell.
3 Facts You Didn’t Know About Korean Patents
South Korea is the world’s leader in patent applications per GDP; they have surpassed powerhouses such as Japan and the United States. With the increased demand in patent translation services in Korea, language experts are beginning to discover distinct variations in Korean patents that usually don’t apply to patents processed in other countries.
Patenting Indigenous Knowledge
Traditional or Indigenous knowledge is demanding more attention from the world of international patent law. As more cases arise, so does the need to address the issue of who rightly claims a patent, especially since traditional knowledge is not protected by conventional intellectual property laws.