Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed. As for the case itself, it was settled in 2011 with neither side surrendering their position. To that end, there are three particularly interesting cases to look at.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Smartish claims that Scooch has been selling mobile phone cases that closely resemble Smartishs distinctive designs, particularly those from its popular “ Wallet Slayer ” series. According to the Complaint, Smartish, based in Austin, Texas , has been designing and selling mobile phone cases since 2011.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On January 11, 2022, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) released a report entitled Expensive Drugs for Rare Diseases: Canadian Trends and International Comparisons, 2011-2020 as part of the National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System (NPDUIS) initiative.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 31, 2023

On August 30, the office of the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks (CGPDTM) released a public notice inviting comments from stakeholders to revamp the different IP guidelines and manuals. The invitation is specific to the Patents, Designs, Trademarks, GI and Copyright Manuals and Guidelines.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

In many cases, manufacturing IP may be easy for any potential competitor, generic or biosimilar company to design around. It is challenging for generics and biosimilars to design around a drug substance patent, given that regulatory approvals are tied to the drug substance itself.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Manufacturing Week is designed to coincide with Manufacturing Day, which has been held the first Friday in October since 2011. Manufacturing Week expands upon the traditional Manufacturing Day launched by the Manufacturing Institute in 2011. It’s no secret the manufacturing sector has a major impact on the U.S.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In 2020, Storus (AKA “Mosaic Brands”) sued Ridge Wallet for both patent infringement (US7334616) and product-design trade dress misappropriation. Summary Judgment : Mosaic lacked product design trade dress rights. Mosaic also corroborated that testimony with invoices showing the SMCII was sold at a trade show in 2011.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2022

In 2005, Marcel and its licensee misappropriated Lucky Brand’s trademarks by replicating its designs and emblems in a new apparel line, according to the lawsuit filed by the Petitioner. Hence, the claim preclusion didn’t and couldn’t prevent the Petitioner from defending the 2011 Suit using its settlement agreement defense.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Over the last 20 years, the total number of design patents issued per year in the United States has erupted. As illustrated in the graph below and further highlighted in this animated graph, in the 30 year period between the years 1971 and 2000 a total of nearly 219,000 design patents were issued by the U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Second Circuit recently reversed an injunction stripping designer and Instagram influencer Hayley Paige Gutman of her Instagram accounts in a dispute with her former business partners. Gutman is a wedding dress designer and used the Instagram account @misshayleypaige to promote her designs and as a personal account.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Bill C-11, the online streaming law that is now before the CRTC, was never really designed to address Bell’s broadcasting concerns. In fact, in 2011 I wrote about how this was likely to become a major issue for Canadian broadcasters dependent on licensing U.S. This was back in 2011. programming.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Unicolors is the owner of copyrights in various fabric designs, including a 2011 copyright registration that consisted of 31 separate designs. it registered it as a single publication when some of the designs were apparently not put on sale to the public all at once), the registration should have been found to be invalid.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Monster alleged a likelihood of confusion between its registered "Claw" design mark for various goods and services, and applicant's "Circled MV" design mark for goods and services in eight classes. Peter Maher and Patricia Hoyt Maher , 100 USPQ2d 1018 (TTAB 2011). The standard is the same. See Nike, Inc. Text Copyright John L.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 18, 2023

A Second Circuit panel on Friday vacated $2 million in damages awarded to a sailboat designer in a decade-long trademark battle, finding that a Connecticut federal court erred in its conclusion that a rival boat maker should have known as early as 2011 that it could not use the disputed mark.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2022

Started in 2011, the Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll is an initiative of D.C. Designates high honors. Fish & Richardson is proud to announce that 26 attorneys from its Washington, D.C., office have been named to the 2021 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll. courts in partnership with the D.C. Access to Justice Commission and the D.C.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 5, 2024

A new federal bill aims to put golf courses on “par” with other architectural designs by expanding federal copyright protection to golf courses. This broad definition covers everything from literature to music to photographs, and — since a 1990 amendment to the Copyright Act — the design of buildings.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 4, 2025

The Controller of Patents & Designs ( pdf ). 2022) ( pdf ), the Delhi High Court noted how the Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs dismissed the Petitioners pre-grant opposition and granted the patent to the Respondent without considering the contention under Section 3(d) at all. Deputy Controller of Patents & Anr.

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Patently-O

MARCH 11, 2022

” Rather, the design of the system is to create an open incentive field to generally encourage innovation, disclosure, and commercialization. The argument begins with an analysis of the Patent Act: (1) nothing in the Act actually requires human inventors; and (2) nothing in the Act requires “conception.”

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 30, 2022

These appear to be the first—and certainly the first precedential—Federal Circuit cases dealing with the merits of one of the numerous “Schedule A” design patent cases that have been filed in recent years in the NDIL. It is clear, from reading the decision, that the design patent infringement claims lacked merit.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 11, 2022

It all started in 2011 when the US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’ After some testing, the Navy installed the software across its network, assuming that it had permission to do so. Software Company Sues US Navy. ” 579 ‘Infringing’ Copies.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2023

In the years following its initial release in 2011, Minecraft captured a truly massive audience. EaglerCraft also infringes Mojang’s Minecraft copyrights by using Minecraft character designs and artwork to advertise these services.”

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 11, 2022

However, a study of Electronic Thesis Dissertations deposited between 2011-2015 at Concordia University, determined that nearly a quarter of hypertext links cited exhibited linkrot. For example, programs like WebCite provided an on-demand archive site, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important materials.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 1, 2025

He kept readers informed about the latest developments in trade marks, designs, AI, and copyright law. Kevin Bercimuelle-Chamot joined the IPKat as an InternKat at the start of 2023 and then continued as a GuestKat. We appreciate all your work over the last two years and we wish you good luck with your future endeavours, Kevin!

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Comment The first thing to note is that this application was lodged in 2011. First, because it reiterates once again that how a system of exceptions and limitations is designed does indeed matter. As a result, “The respondent State [.] failed to discharge its positive obligation under Article 1 of Protocol No.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 28, 2022

It was back in January 2011 when Future Enterprises had officially filed ‘Mac Coffee and Eagle device’ trademark before DOI. However, McDonald’s can still appeal in higher court against the recent decision, which, McDonald’s previously in 2011 did not file any appeal in higher court. Conclusion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” A Google search turns up three different pairs of designs with differing degrees of similarity. b)(4)(i)(A) (2011). Factual and Procedural Background. 3d 1194 , 1196 (9th Cir.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Mattel countersued, arguing that Carter Bryant , the designer of Bratz and a former employee of Mattel, had created the dolls while working for Mattel under a contract that stated all his designs were the property of Mattel, thereby making the Bratz design Mattel’s intellectual property.

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Patently-O

JUNE 28, 2022

” These two provisions were amended and removed respectively as part of the America Invents Act of 2011. 235, 290 (1991); Carroll Pursell, The Cover Design: Women Inventors in America, 22 TECH. & 881 (2011). ” Still, other provisions in the law were not changed during this makeover and remain male gendered.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As part of its defense, Redbubble presented evidence that Atari had only complained to Redbubble once (in 2011) before bringing suit in 2018, and that when the lawsuit was filed, Redbubble took quick action to remove potentially infringing designs from its site. The jury in this case decided. By: Morgan Lewis

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Patently-O

MARCH 21, 2023

One oddity of this conclusion is that definition was added in 2011 as part of the America Invents Act, and without any suggestion on record that the amendment was intended to exclude robots or non-humans. Thaler’s new petition asks the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2022

As I’ve explained many times over, Section 230 by design applies when defendants exercise editorial discretion over third-party material; the whole point is to encourage entities to do more content moderation. First, Section 230 isn’t limited to defendants who act as a “passive conduit” for third-party content.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 17, 2023

Founded in 2011, AnonFiles.com became known as a popular hosting service that allowed users to share files up to 20GB without download restrictions. Both sites launched around the same time and shared a similar design and identical features.

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The IPKat

MARCH 17, 2024

Kreglinger's first vintage of the wine promoted and sold as "New Certan" was the 2011 vintage, released in 2013. The label designer had received photos of VCC bottles and instruction from de Moor to use them as inspiration. For the earliest vintages, the label depicted the de Moor family home on their vineyard in Tasmania.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 6, 2021

2011 priority filing date). This on/off function is designed to both save power on the device and also help prevent hacking. This is another case that serves as a data-point, but I struggle to differentiate it from similar cases finding claims ineligible. CosmoKey’s U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 11, 2022

Kimberly-Clark Corp (2011) is the most recently published intellectual property case on toilet paper. In conclusion, the Court held that functionality cannot be trademarked and that the diamond design on toilet paper actually performs a function—something to consider the next time you run out. References. Kimberly-Clark Corp. ,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2022

The BPI says this is the first time since website blocking began in 2011 that a mobile operator has begun blocking pirate sites. Those ISPs include EE, a broadband provider that’s also the operator of the UK’s largest mobile network. So, during the past few hours, we had some tests carried out on EE’s network in the UK.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

Case Summaries Guddu Gupta Trading as Ms Leela vs Suraj Gupta Trading As Ms Devi Leela … on 18 January, 2025 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff, trading as Leela Cosmetics, alleged that his brother operating under Devi Leela Cosmetics, infringed upon his trademarks ROOP LADY and ROOP LEELA, as well as the design of his sindoor stick bottles.

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