A trademark is a mark used to identif​y various commodities. If same or similar trademark is registered for the same or similar commodity, the purchaser of the goods may be confused. Therefore, in the process of trademark registration examination, the examiner judges whether the trademark is the same or similar to the other applied or registered trademarks. ​The confusion in trademarks is ba...

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COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS has been adopt-e d b y m a n y industries to provide a better understanding of countless applications. New and unusual uses for the technology continue to appear, as evi-denced by our cover story on archaeological analysis (page 5). While the extent of an ancient municipal water system in Syria was unearthed by excavation, the clever-ness of the hydraulic engineers ...

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a r t i c l e i n f o Trademarks protecting the brand name and associations are crucial in a brand's strategy, but little is known about the factors that determine a trademark's prolongation. To explain the prolongation of trademarks, the research estimated a multilevel hazard model accounting for trademark characteristics, firm's characteristics, and firm's country of origin national culture. ...

A new deformed trademark retrieval method based on two-dimensional pseudo-hidden Markov model (2D PHMM) is proposed in this paper. Most trademark retrieval systems focus on color features, shape silhouettes, or the combination of color and shape. However, these approaches adopted individual silhouettes as shape features, leading to the following two crucial problems. First, most trademarks have...

Palm organizers are widely used in a multi-tasking fashion. Users switch from one application to another without losing the context established in either of them. Despite its obvious usefulness, there is no automatic support for this convenience in the organizer’s operating system, PalmOS. Programmers must implement event callbacks that have to operate on a PalmOS database API to save and reloa...