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Reminder: 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law [Submit by July 14]

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Basheer’s 48 th birth anniversary we announced the 2024 edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. programs can take part) across the world, as well as to those who have completed their first law degree in 2022 or later. Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009.

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Federal Circuit’s Determination on Whether Fraudulent Conduct in Obtaining Incontestable Status Warrants the Mark’s Cancellation

Intellectual Property Law Blog

In 2006, Chutter, Inc.’s s (“Chutter”) predecessor-in-interest, Dan Tana, petitioned the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to cancel the ’764 Mark based on an alleged likelihood of confusion with Tana’s common law “DAN TANA” mark for restaurant services. Chutter, Inc. , 2929764 (the “’764 Mark”), for a restaurant.

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Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Ruling of Swearing Behind a Prior Art Reference

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Background The challenged patents all claim priority to a common application filed on May 3, 2006, and share a common specification. Patents 8,048,032, RE45,380, RE45,776, RE45,760, and RE47,379 (collectively, “the challenged patents”) under pre-AIA’s first-to-invent provisions.

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On repatriation: Questions of copyright ownership and management of repatriated cultural heritage materials

The IPKat

See South Africa's Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act. However, in view of the fact that Nigeria is an amalgamation of diverse ethnicities and culture and indigenous peoples, the location, control and management of repatriated cultural heritage materials within Nigeria is one significant bone of contention.

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The IPKat welcomes new GuestKats

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Here's a bit more about them: Gabriele Girardello Gabriele is an Italian-qualified lawyer and holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Turin - WIPO. He’s been practising law since 2006 and working since 2011 in the IP Department at Pavia e Ansaldo.

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Copyright law and football matches: impossible to match? (Part I)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Or that Zinedine Zidane’s Panenka penalty in the 2006 World Cup final does not bear a personal creative stamp? But, could they be considered as works in the sense of European copyright law? More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition. 36, 37).

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Federal Circuit Rebukes Attempt to Incorporate Arguments by Reference to a Related IPR Petition

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Medtronic appealed. Under pre-AIA 25 U.S.C. §

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