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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. A copyright is a right against the world.

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TTAB Affirms Refusal to Register Handbag Shape: Generic and (Alternatively) Lacking Acquired Distinctiveness

The TTABlog

Fender Musical Instruments , 94 USPQ2d 1549, 1555 (TTAB 2009) (guitar shape). "[C]ourts The applicant did not offer survey evidence nor any evidence of "look for" advertising. Its sales figures lacked information regarding market share. Genericness: Generic product designs cannot be registered.

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Legal Discernment On The Co-Existence Of Similar Trademarks

IP and Legal Filings

To profit on the reputation of another brand, competitors began copying marks or acquiring deceptively similar trade marks with a desire to obtain the goodwill of well-known marks. 1] This empowers an enterprise to market its product effectively and allows consumers to differentiate between products of identical natures or classes.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This personal intellectual creation is lacking if the photographs in question are “mere reproductions of other photographs” in which an original has been merely reproduced (copied) as closely as possible. If a copy of a computer program is published in the territory of the EU/EEA with the consent of the rightholder, Section 69 No.

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Precedential No. 15: On Remand, TTAB Reverses COOKINPELLETS.COM Genericness Ruling, But Affirms Mere Descriptiveness and Lack of Acquired Distinctiveness

The TTABlog

The Board then applied the CAFC's Converse analysis to applicant's evidence: use of the proposed mark since 2007, approximately 250,000 units sold for $3M in revenue, $25,000 spent for advertising, promotion of mark on social media an on its website, and a ranking for several years as the best-selling and highest-rated pellet on Amazon.com.

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Models' false endorsement claims fail for want of recognition, bad survey

43(B)log

Plaintiffs sued for false advertising and false endorsement under the Lanham Act, violation of their right to publicity, deceptive trade practices under New York GBL Section 349, and defamation. 2021), which considered all these claims except for false advertising. The court was guided by Electra v. 59 Murray Enterprises, Inc.,

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The FTC’s Misguided Comments on Copyright Office Generative AI Questions

Patently-O

In our view, the FTC plays a vital role in keeping markets open and honest, and we have long been admirers of the intelligence and energy that the agency brings to that task. so-called “non-expressive” use in which copying is undertaken not to distribute the copied material directly or indirectly but rather for some other purpose.