TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Takedown notices (2012-2025) The absolute number should be seen in perspective, of course. That translates to nearly 10 million takedown notices per day, every day. The graph below shows that it took more than a decade for Google to process 6 billion DMCA notices. After that, the proverbial floodgates were open.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2024

” In 2012, McGuckin had been working at a company selling wine. The same applies to a one-month prison sentence (suspended for two years) in 2012 for one count of fraud and 13 of theft for using a former employer’s credit card to steal around £1,000.

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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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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The service was founded in 2005 and acquired by Cyando AG in 2012. Finally today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the file hosting service Uploaded has closed its doors, seeking to avoid the copyright issues that impacted similar services.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2022

In its ruling delivered last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that Denmark had breached its obligations under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 , by failing to stop the use of the Greek PDO “Feta” on cheese produced in Denmark and intended for export outside of the EU (case C-159/20 ). However, it argued that Art.

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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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 20, 2024

EU Protections for Agricultural Products, Wines, and Spirits The book has separate chapters that correspond to each of the EU Regulations on GIs for agricultural products and foodstuffs ( Regulation (EU) 1151/2012 ), wines ( Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 ) and spirits ( Regulation (EU) 2019/787 ).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Law and Findings The decision was made under the previous Agri-GI Regulation ( 1151/2012 ). Article 42 states that the 2012 Regulation "shall not prevent the placing on the market of products the labelling of which includes a name.

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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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

For example, local artist Claude Tousignant had one of his paintings sell in 2012 for $110,000. The idea of the law is fairly straightforward, when a painting is resold, under the new proposed law, the artist would be entitled to royalties on that sale. Under the current law, he received nothing, but would receive $5,500 under this law.

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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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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 IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Article 4(1) Brussels I Regulation ( Regulation 1215/2012 ) states that " persons domiciled in a Member State shall, whatever their nationality, be sued in the courts of that Member State ". 4) in proceedings concerned with the registration or validity of patents [.]

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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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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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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

“is lagging far behind” compared to other countries, partly because the initial SOPA site blocking proposal failed in 2012. The call for site blocking was supported by many other speakers, including Lui Simpson of the Association of American Publishers , who stressed that the U.S. As you know, we tried this maybe 13 years ago.

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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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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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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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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Since the Canadian copyright law reforms in 2012, education and libraries have increased spending on licensing and a non-partisan House of Commons study found no need to create new restriction on education and library copying rights.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SpicyIP

AUGUST 31, 2023

There is no date of introduction or revision on the Design Manual but considering that it was introduced by the then Controller General P H Kurien, who served on this position till 2012, it is safe to assume that the Manual was introduced before 2012. Lastly, the GI Manual, was last updated in 2011.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Although third-party submissions were permitted prior to the AIA, the AIA expanded the process substantially – although only with regard to applications filed after Sept 2012. The submissions also require a fee of $180 for every 10 documents submitted ($90 for small entity).

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