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31 March 2020TrademarksRory O'Neill

‘I Survived Corona’: the TM filings cashing in on a pandemic

As the world struggles to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, the trademark registers have seen a spree of  opportunistic filings related to the disease and its impact on our lives.

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