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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

A very common way of marketing a product is to have it advertised and endorsed by celebrities that the public holds in good opinion. Daler Mehendi, a known singer and the plaintiff in the present case, had a registered trademark over the letters “DM” and established a business called “D.M. 893 of 2002 (Del) (India). [2]

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IP as Collateral

IIPRD

Instances of companies using IP as collateral during times of distress are as follows: Xerox pledged its Patents as collateral due to problems faced concerning financial fraud and certain distress in 2002. Trademark as Collateral in the US. The agreement lays down conditions for patent ownership in the event of default.

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5th Circuit holds that inquiries weigh less than lost sales but can still be evidence of actual confusion

43(B)log

Here, I think we might be starting to see what a post-Abitron, post-JDI world could look like: courts may begin to reestablish distinctions between registered trademarks and unregistered matter protected by unfair competition law, based this time on statutory interpretation rather than conceptual categories.