If you were thinking about borrowing Pitbull’s famous yell, you may be in for some legal trouble. The Miami-born performer has successfully trademarked the shout he uses on many of his recordings - ...

Registration of sound marks in Thailand has been legally possible since the Thai Trademark Act (No. 3) B.E. 2558 (A.D. 2015) came into force on July 28 2016. However, such registrations remained only ...

India's trade mark registry granted its first sound mark in August this year. Ranjan Narula and Rachna Bakhru look at the implications for brand owners in the region Sound marks provide a very ...

Brands now have a better idea of what will pass the test after the EU General Court set a new threshold for distinctiveness, explains João Pereira Cabral of Inventa. On September 10, 2025, the EU ...

Sound marks continue to spark the interest of brand owners—particulary in competitive sectors such as food—but successful registration relies on inherent distinctiveness, explains Joana Fialho Pinto ...

for the first time. The office seems to have followed the case law of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, under which sound marks represented graphically on a musical stave may be ...

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has announced that it is now accepting applications to register sound marks and has set forth the criteria for sound mark applications. This is a major new ...