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Ninth Circuit Concludes Direct Copying Can Be Evidence of “Secondary Meaning” for Trade Dress Infringement 

LexBlog IP

. (“JSC”) against Trendily Furniture, LLC, Trendily Home Collection, and Raul Malhotra (collectively, “Trendily”) finding Trendily liable for trade dress infringement for willfully copying, manufacturing, and selling identical JSC furniture pieces.

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[Guest Post] Nigerian's new Copyright Act 2022: how libraries can benefit

The IPKat

The Act introduces a new vista in Nigerian copyright law as it repeals the Copyright Act 2004. Selected key innovations of the Copyright Act 2022 The official copy of the Copyright Act 2022 will be published in due course in the Official Gazette. Pending publication, the pre-assent copy of the Act can be accessed here.

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5th Cir affirms fair use on a motion to dismiss, fee award to D

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Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. If that were all, copying the WIN Passage would be qualitatively significant. Not for nothing, the Second Circuit has wisely rejected assessing factor three by counting registrations.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask.

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Why SNL’s “Muppets” Parody Had Even the Media Fooled

Copyright Lately

Nevertheless, almost immediately after the sketch aired on the East Coast, a number of Muppets fans began to weigh in on social media, wondering if they had just seen an authorized (albeit unconventional) appearance by Kermit and Co. Kermit the Frog and Robert De Niro on SNL (2004). Jason Segel and the Muppets on SNL (2011).

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2004, the Ninth Circuit eviscerated it (in the Rossi case) by requiring plaintiffs to show that senders subjectively believed their takedown notices were abusive. Diebold from 2004, which led to a $125k damages award. As I’ve blogged many, many times on this blog (see list below), 512(f) has been a complete failure.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 05- February 11)

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Other Posts A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ image from here Do you enjoy your whiskey? The Plaintiff has been using the infringed trademark ‘FLY HIGH’ since 2004. Would you mix up these two labels: Officers Choice and Peace Maker? Frankfinn Aviation Services (Pvt.)

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