IIPRD

APRIL 28, 2023

While the goal of IPR law is to preserve inventors’ rights over their creations, the goal of competition law is to maintain effective market competition by prohibiting anti-competitive acts and the misuse of dominant positions. Competition (Amendment) Bill, Section 4A, 2020: Good or Bad?

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A report by Citibank published in March, 2020 observes that the Metaverse economy could be a thirteen trillion dollar total addressable market by the year 2030. Deepfaking in the metaverse, other than acting as an imputation on a person’s reputation, is also a gross violation of their privacy and personal data. Conclusion .

Contracts 52

Contracts Law Technology Privacy 52

IIPRD

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The risks include unauthorised use and infringement, technological obsolescence, and the marketable nature of IP as collateral. A short-form trademark security agreement which avoids the disclosure of terms of the loan is also recommended while filing documents in the USPTO to protect the privacy of the debtor. Objective 5.11.1

IP 40

IP Intellectual Property Business Branding 40

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Unauthorised use of someone’s identity is a violation of both their personality rights and their basic right to privacy. The Court rejected the privacy defence, which is often employed in IP proceedings.

Personality Rights 92

Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property 92

The IPKat

AUGUST 2, 2023

Alcoa stated in its Complaint that once it had the information, UAC marketed itself to Boeing as a new, low cost supplier of the Stretch Form Extrusion Parts (despite it not "yet even own[ing] the equipment necessary to manufacture those parts ") ([5]-[6]), thus misappropriating its trade secrets under the Georgia Trade Secrets Act.

Confidentiality 52

Confidentiality Litigation Privacy Technology 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. Despite these obvious issues, the privacy community has been conspicuously quiet about age authentication. Musk has bridged that gap.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

.” [For more on the crisis of online contracts, see this short piece.] __ “I analyze everything you post and often apply those insights to my workespecially topics like Section 230 of the CDA, privacy issues, and e-commerce.” Did the marketing team ignore the lawyers or, worse, proceed without legal support?

Blogging 52

Blogging Privacy Social Media Law 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Apple positions itself as more privacy-supportive than the other tech giants, but then it committed an unforgiveable privacy faux pas by unveiling plans to proactively scan client-side files for illegal CSAM. California voters passed a terrible privacy law in November 2020. Apple’s Client-Side Scanning Plans. issue 2, Nov.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Two recent key developments were the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. This discourages visits to new sites, which will reward incumbents and thwart new market entrants. It also puts users’ privacy and security (including minors’!) at greater risk. 18, 2022 NetChoice LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Meanwhile, Twitter’s marketplace decline has demonstrated (once again) that market mechanisms–including users and advertisers voting with their “feet”–still carry a potent sting online. Privacy Lawyers May Be Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.

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