Separately, Wipo said trademark applications surged 16 per cent worldwide to 5.
It lost a copyright infringement lawsuit against a Chinese company that was using the iPhone trademark on accessories.
Swiss watchmaker Swatch has successfully opposed Apple's registration of the trademark "iWatch" in the UK.
Bolt began the final leg of the race trailing Japan's Aska Cambridge but quickly caught his rival before surging clear in the last 50m with his trademark burst.
As for Linsanity, he may have won the trademark, but he has mixed feelings about it; he does not intend to revive it.
Oprah Winfrey lost her job as a Baltimore news anchor for becoming too emotionally involved in her stories, a quality that became her trademark.
'In some embodiments, a transmitter can be located in areas where capturing pictures and videos is prohibited and the transmitters can generate infrared signals with encoded data that includes commands temporarily disabling recording functions,' reads the patent published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Recently, a Chinese company won the right to sell leather goods under the iPhone trademark after years of legal back and forth.
This month, they secured US patent protection for the cell line from the US Patent and Trademark Office.
In the patent, published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, it says these sensors are connected to a system of actuators sitting close to the skin so they are able to create a feeling of pressure – like a hug – heat and coolness or generate vibrations or music.
Facebook has won a Chinese trademark case against a company that registered the brand name "face book", in a sign that Beijing attitudes are softening towards the world's largest social networking site, which is blocked to China's 700m internet users.
They will perform acrobatics, demonstrate the use of their trademark shuriken weapons and pose for photographs with tourists, said Satoshi Adachi of the prefectural government's tourism promotion unit.
" The Irish photographer's trademark portraits on a black background have been highly sought after among the rich and famous - last week he was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
) Satchmo warbles his trademark warble, our hearts melt, and a classic is born.
He has influenced more than a generation of Chinese with a long list of comedy films, ranging from crime thrillers to sci-fi, featuring a trademark display of his nonsensical sense of humor.
) As the story goes, this attire became his trademark and the union suit became known as the "Long John.
That was a trademark Hassan gesture, meant he had no idea.
by that time 'Ping-Pong' had been registered as a trademark, so the earlier name of table tennis was re-introduced.
When he was eighty-three, he opened another fast-food restaurant but fell into a lawsuit due to trademark and patent issues.
and another local company for infringement of its trademark and unfair competition, a local court said on Monday.
