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Advent of AI Voice Generation and Threat to Personality Rights

IP and Legal Filings

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. The concept of passing off under trademarks law was used to provide relief to the plaintiff. It is a common tort law aspect and can be used for unregistered trademarks.

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IP as Collateral

IIPRD

Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, brand value, copyright, etc have become foundational assets for several businesses, seeking greater importance and attention. Trademark as Collateral in the US. Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) governs security interests in trademarks.

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Can You Trademark an NFT?

LexBlog IP

Whether you can file a trademark for an NFT depends on whether the NFT is part of a larger collection or series. If the collection sells specific goods and/or services, it may receive trademark protection. Can NFTs Receive Trademark/IP Protection? In fact, to date Yuga Labs LLC has filed at least 38 trademarks at the USPTO.

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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.