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Infographic | Barbie movie

Olartemoure Blog

These new dolls captured about 40% of Barbie’s market share in five years, creating tension between Mattel and MGA. Barbie was created in 1959, and when she was 42 years old, in 2001, Bratz entered the scene. La entrada Infographic | Barbie movie se publicó primero en OlarteMoure | Intellectual Property.

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Infographic | Barbie movie

Olartemoure Blog

These new dolls captured about 40% of Barbie’s market share in five years, creating tension between Mattel and MGA. MGA alleged that Mattel had hired individuals to spy on toy designs and marketing plans. Barbie was created in 1959, and when she was 42 years old, in 2001, Bratz entered the scene.

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World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020 or how all roads lead to China (ii): trademarks, industrial designs and creative industry  

Garrigues Blog

This time, we will take a look at other equally important branches of IP that are covered by the report: trademarks, industrial designs and creative industry (publishing). Industrial designs. As far as industrial designs are concerned, applications also increased in 2019 with respect to 2018, albeit by a timid 1.7%. Trademarks.

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Loro Piana position mark for footwear: not distinctive, says EUIPO

The IPKat

The Applicant raised arguments in support of the trade mark’s distinctiveness, highlighting that the use of the combination of strap, knot, and ribbons with metallic pendants dated back to 2005 and that there is an established practice in the footwear industry for using position marks (EU trade mark EU trade mark no.

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Jury Awards Damages to Tattoo Artist for Video-Game Depiction–Alexander v. WWE 2K (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Alexander claimed that Take-Two Interactive infringed the tattoo designs she inked on her client, professional wrestler Randy Orton, when the company produced and distributed a video game featuring a realistic in-game depiction of Orton. Also, see Q2 of my 2005 contracts law exam and the sample answer. Copyright in Tattoos.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Would it be SMART to Tweak the DMCA?

Velocity of Content

The more common description of these “measures” was as “anti-piracy tools” or “digital rights management” (DRM, a term from the market). As with many issues involving copyright in recent decades, DRM quickly became controversial (An example: Sony’s rootkit scandal of 2005.)