IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Yves Saint Laurent (2012): [6] The courts established that the red sole was indeed unique trade dress as it is protected under law. 6] Christian Louboutin v Yves Saint Laurent (2012) US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. [7] 6] Christian Louboutin v Yves Saint Laurent (2012) US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. [7]

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

She released a new version of her 2008 album Fearless in April, and has planned to release a re-recorded version of her 2012 album Red in November. Since then, Swift has been re-recording and re-releasing her previous content. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2021

The lawsuit actually began in 2012 when LaTele sued Telemundo over alleged copyright infringement of a telenovela. That underlying case was settled back in 2019 but, as the case dragged on, Fraiz was removed from the company by the Venezuelan government and replaced with an appointed Junta.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 12, 2023

2012 WL 4863696 (D. 2012); Merritt v. Lexis Nexis, 2012 WL 6725882 (E.D. 2012); Nieman v. 2012 WL 3201931 (C.D. 2012); Getachew v. 2012); Mmubango v. Pataki, 514 F. 2d 577 (S.D.N.Y. 2007); Shah v. MyLife.Com, Inc., Versuslaw, Inc., Google, Inc., 923 (10th Cir. Google, Inc., 2013 WL 664231 (E.D.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Specifically, Cox alleges the metadata on the evidence indicates that they are files from 2016 though the case only deals with 2012-2014. However, Cox is appealing that ruling to the Fourth Circuit and is claiming that the labels either withheld or manipulated the evidence against them.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2022

They allege that Megan Thee Stallion and Big Sean infringed their 2012 song entitled Krazy when creating Go Crazy for Big Sean’s 2020 debut album. First off today, Larisha Paul at Rolling Stone reports that Megan Thee Stallion and Big Sean are facing a lawsuit over their 2020 collaboration Go Crazy.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Before that, sitting Prime Minister Victor Ponta faced similar allegations in 2012. By 2012, that number had risen to 6,259. Before that, in 2017, Mihai Tudose was named Prime Minster of the country though he faced prior allegations of plagiarism in his 2010 dissertation. All three men lost or surrendered their degrees over the matter.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 8, 2025

Before the 2012 amendment, the right to a royalty of these composers and lyricists barely existed. Things did improve after the 2012 amendment, however, there are still major issues holding back these authors from reaping the complete benefits of their works.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently released an update to its Orange Book patent and biologic patent study, examining post-grant petitions filed against Orange Book patents and biologic patents between September 16, 2012, and June 30, 2021.

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The Illusion of More

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Welp (as the kids say), it looks like Katherine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) found an old PowerPoint deck from 2012 and used it to write a new post ominously titled Hollywood’s Insistence on New Draconian Copyright Rules Is Not About Protecting Artists.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Later, after the loss of Inter Partes Reexamination in 2012, the USPTO added all newly filed reissue applications to the CRU Examiner’s regime. As a result, the USPTO formed the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) and staffed it with 15 year+ Examiners and legal experts. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

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Patent 65

Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Originally posted 2012-07-02 17:00:11. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe EFF is suing Viacom over their DMCA takedown notice for a Stephen Colbert parody clip on YouTube which EFF says is non-infringing. Viacom sent out about 37 million of those puppies, based on the well known legal-analytical principle of “what the heck!”

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The Illusion of More

APRIL 30, 2024

When the internet industry killed the antipiracy bills SOPA and PIPA in January 2012, I was a newbie blogger but guessed at the time that those parties had totally blown their wad on […] The post Site-blocking: can the U.S. Will things be different this time? finally get it done? appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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The Illusion of More

JUNE 7, 2022

“Defcad stands against artificial scarcity, intellectual property, copyright, patentable objects, and regulation in all its forms.” – Cody Wilson, Promo Video, 2013 – In 2012, when this blog was new, I wrote a short piece about Cody Wilson’s vision to combine Second Amendment maximalism with tech-utopianism to ensure that every citizen has even easier (..)

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Since 2015, the USPTO has seen a rapid uptick in potentially fraudulent trademark applications, and a previous audit in 2012 found that more than 50% of audited trademark maintenance filings contained goods/services not in use in commerce.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

After being indicted along with the others in 2012, the Estonian was reported as living in the Netherlands. Julius Bencko, Graphic Designer In the United States government’s superseding indictment dated February 16, 2012, Julius Bencko is described as a citizen and resident of Slovakia.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 11, 2025

Originally posted 2012-08-15 16:49:12. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThere will always be an England, I guess, but the land once known for its stiff upper lip seems to be slouching along with the rest of us toward that slack-jawed permissiveness so popular among us Western infidels. The issue, of course, is FCUK.

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SpicyIP

MAY 4, 2023

Image from here [Long post ahead] In a momentous development, the Bombay High Court made a bunch of important interpretations concerning the rights of the authors of underlying literary and musical works in light of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012. for the court’s observation that the 2012 amendment is only clarificatory in nature.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 17, 2022

Hyatt has been embroiled in litigation with the USPTO for decades and won a previous Supreme Court appeal in 2012. . Supreme Court asking the Justices to weigh in on his challenge of a policy he alleges the USPTO implemented in the 1990s to categorically deny him issuance of any additional patents.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2012, Prime Minister Victor Ponta and several of his ministers faced allegations that they had committed plagiarism in their academic work. However, it is far from the only blow that’s happened this year. Romania’s Ongoing Battles. Romania’s high-profile battles with plagiarism are not new.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

2012 War on Cyberlockers. Wupload and Fileserve disabled all public sharing functionality in April of 2012. This statement is somewhat ironic, given that the company is targeting ‘ancient’ URLs in its takedown notices. The reported domains include Megaupload, Fileserve, Filesonic, and Wupload.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

During the Cox trial, the music companies presented a hard drive that contained the files, suggesting that those were the original songs that were pirated between 2012 and 2014. The allegedly infringing files were central to prove direct copyright infringement. Vacate the $1 Billion Verdict.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 30, 2023

Hyundai Motor America, 2012 WL 1022247 (S.D.N.Y., March 22, 2012) and covered. In 2010 I wrote this post about a now-notorious case, eventually ensconced as Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. The post Trademark parodies and iconic marks: can foul become fair? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2022

1289 (2012). Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate IP Subcommittee, released the first draft of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022, which if enacted would, at a minimum, overrule the Supreme Court’s decisions in Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.,

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Patently-O

MARCH 17, 2022

Prior reports were issued in 2012 and 2016. by Dennis Crouch. The USPTO Chief Economist Andrew Toole and his team have just released a new report on Intellectual Property and the U.S. IP-intensive industries account for 41% of domestic economic activity and about 44% of US jobs.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Filed in 2012, the decision comes after 13 years with the litigation having outlived not only the suit patent, and the DVD industry, but also the institution that declared it essential !! Image from here In an interesting development for SEP watchers, the Delhi High Court (DHC) passed a common judgement ( Philips v.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

KDIs owner testified that the Ferralert Solo unit that Intertek tested was an early prototype from when the product was first released in 2012, and that KDI had made several improvements to the Ferralert Solo product since 2012. KDIs witness testified that he could identify it as a 2012 prototype because of its color and serial number.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The complaint alleged that Scientific Games, through its acquired entity, SHFL Entertainment, brought patent infringement litigation in 2009 and 2012 based on fraudulently obtained patents for automatic card shufflers used in licensed casinos. The plaintiffs had sued Scientific Games Corp.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) established its Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in September 2012. As mandated by the America Invents Act, the PTAB conducts administrative trials, such as inter partes reviews, and handles appeals from examiner rejections of patent applications. By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of several design patents, interest in design patents grew exponentially. By: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2012, Amazon had a major scandal as fake authors were exploiting their Direct Publishing platform to publish plagiarized erotica. Long-time readers of this site will have undoubtedly heard this story many times before. Back in 2009, Amazon launched a Kindle service for blogs that made it easy for anyone to sell any blog’s content. .

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SpicyIP

JUNE 28, 2023

crores for CSIR (2012-22); Rs. of Ayush (2012-22); Rs 10,209.2 crores for ICMR (2012-21); Rs. 689 crores for TDB (2012-22); Rs. 7,295 crores for SERB (2012-22); Rs. of Health Research (2012-22); Rs. 17,000 crores for the Dept.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 10, 2024

In 2012, Google expanded its transparency report with a new section dedicated to DMCA takedown requests. Google Search Takedown Notices (2012-2024) Will it Last? For the first time, outsiders were able to see which URLs were being targeted by copyright holders and in what quantity.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

None of the following works supported the access inference: Work #3: posted in 2012 to Facebook and got 10 likes, 2 comments, and 2 shares. Work #4: posted in 2012 to Instagram and got 92 likes and 11 comments. Work #8: posted to Facebook in 2012 and got 13 likes, 1 share, and 9 comments.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Originally posted 2012-03-30 14:37:51. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe Second Circuit, just yesterday (March 29, 2012) has issued an opinion called Louis Vuitton v. Ly USA, Inc. (08-4483-cv(L)) 08-4483-cv(L)) sure to bring joy to the hearts of trademark counterfeiting enforcers everywhere.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

66 (2012), and Alice Corp. by Dennis Crouch As its name suggests, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) is designed to substantially overturn the Supreme Court's decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. , CLS Bank International , 573 U.S. 208 (2014).

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Patently-O

JULY 2, 2021

2012) (holding that prophetic examples in the prior art are still presumed to be enabling). = = = =. The patent applicant argued that the prior art examples should be disregarded as merely a prophetic example. The PTAB rejected the call and instead presumed that the prior art teachings were enabling. See In re Antor Media Corp., 3d 1282 (Fed.

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