JIPL Online

APRIL 7, 2021

iii] It is estimated that counterfeit merchandising costs American businesses $200 Billion each year, [iv] and in 2012 alone it was estimated that sports leagues lost $13 billion in revenue from fake goods. [v] v] Thus, the market for counterfeit sports apparel in the United States is quite large.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

3, 2025) Metrasens and plaintiff KDI compete in the market for ferromagnetic detectors, used to detect magnetic items (such as iron) on a persons body or clothing before the person enters a room containing an MRI scanner. KDIs witness testified that he could identify it as a 2012 prototype because of its color and serial number.

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43(B)log

JUNE 29, 2023

The district court ruled for Vitamins Online at a bench trial and ordered disgorgement of NatureWise’s profits for 2012 and 2013. NatureWise’s entry into the market knocked Vitamins Online from its #1 seller spot, which has competitive advantages. During 2012-2013, Naturewise made over $9.5 This also violated Amazon’s policies.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2021

These two largest services merged their platforms a couple of years ago, which influenced the taxi market in Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and several other Commonwealth of Independent States countries. These mobile services have significantly expanded the market, transferring most of Kazakhstanis from public transport to taxis.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 1, 2022

However, despite those efforts, a study in 2012 found that Google only identified the original content 57% of the time , often ranking duplicates higher than source material. This has taken many forms, including article marketing and spinning. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 22, 2024

To put it short, Section 31D, inserted after the 2012 amendment , creates a statutory licensing regime which allows a Broadcaster to communicate a literary or musical work and sound recording, either by way of public performance or broadcast, after paying royalties to the Copyright owner (rates to be fixed by Commercial Court).

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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. –Cooley v. Target Corp.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 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. PA Law Enforcement appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Pataki, 514 F. 2d 577 (S.D.N.Y. 2007); Shah v. MyLife.Com, Inc.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

On 15 December 2020, the European Commission submitted a proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act, DSA) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD). 17 CDSMD, and DSA rules on issues that Art.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2025

Trade Representative as a notorious piracy market. The shutdown of Megaupload in 2012 put a spotlight on the cyberlocker industry and, urged by rightsholders, major payment companies started to intervene. File-hosting platform 1fichier.com appeared around 2009 and since then has seen no shortage of copyright complaints.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 24, 2025

C Union of India (2012). While actions against infringement of copyright or trademark are welcome, the same should not be at the cost of choking a free market or the rights of small businessmen and entrepreneurs to carry on with their business ( Vasundhara Majithia ). Why Does it Matter?

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Fish & Richardson has named Melanie Green as its new chief marketing and business development officer. Green has led the marketing and business development functions of multiple Am Law 200 law firms and created widely admired programs to enhance relationships between law firms and their clients. She received her B.A.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Such a doctrine is the cornerstone for secondary markets such as libraries, used bookstores, and places for selling used CDs and DVDs. The case involved the organization called ReDigi, an online market where users can resell digital music files they have bought legally. Section 109 of 17 U.S.C., ReDigi Inc.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In early January 2012, many operators of successful, public file-hosting sites were looking forward to another productive year. Later in 2012, the RIAA submitted its regular report to the United States Trade Representative, requesting various sites to be branded notorious pirate markets. RIAA Reports Hellshare and Hellspy.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 5, 2024

Amarin markets and sells icosapent ethyl, an ethyl ester of an omega-3 fatty acid commonly found in fish oils, under the brand name Vascepa®. In 2012, the FDA approved Vascepa for the treatment of severe hypertriglyceridemia (“the SH indication”), and in 2019, the FDA approved it for reducing. June 25, 2024).

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2022

I made my last New Year’s resolution 10 years ago in 2012. Well, when law enforcers come knocking and ask about your marketing practices, you can be pretty sure that they will also want to know what sort of training you do to make sure that your advertising and marketing are legally compliant.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 6, 2022

Founded in 2012 as a multi-level marketing company (“MLM”) selling women’s clothing, LuLaRoe reached 80,000 distributors by 2017. Throughout this blog post, I take a legal look at both multi-level marketing companies and their close relation to pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes. MLMs are nothing new.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 7, 2023

2, 2023) A smoothly written opinion: As the complaint tells it, Paul Mitchell has long marketed its business and its products as “cruelty-free.” Although not all the purchased products appeared in the Chinese import registry, “in its marketing, Paul Mitchell doesn’t just advertise that it sells ‘cruelty-free’ goods.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Government shut down Megaupload in 2012, similar platforms were presented with a practical example of what could happen to their businesses too. Founded in 2005 and acquired by Switzerland-based Cyando AG in 2012, file-hosting platform Uploaded wasted no time attracting new customers and the wrong type of attention. When the U.S.

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Copyright Music Business Copyright Infringement 145

The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Chanel brought proceedings against Ms N and Ouest SCS for use of the trade mark without the owner's authorisation and for unlawful use of the trademark on 26 December 2012. Many of those products had been purchased by Ms N, who said she had bought them from an approved retailer in the Chanel distribution network. On 25 February 2020.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Professor Paul Goldstein, for example, has argued that, in light of the enumeration, the statutory text is intended primarily to protect certain licensing markets. Annemarie Bridy, Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author , 2012 Stan. 5, 12 (2012). ↩︎ On the ejusdem generis rule, see Garcia v.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In 2010, RLSLOG was reported to the USTR by the RIAA, labeled a ‘notorious market’ worthy of enforcement action. Late 2012, RLSLOG received threats from the prominent law firm Wiggin LLC acting on behalf of the Hollywood studios. Even greater pressure lay ahead.

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Patently-O

JUNE 29, 2022

That divide allows the company to cater to local market preferences and regulations and also avoid potential arbitrage. In the 1970’s Coca-Cola withdrew its flagship sugary cola from the Indian market at a time of heavy regulation of foreign companies. In the 1990s, the Indian market opened again to foreign competition.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 15, 2022

When Christie’s Auction House first entered the secondary art market of mainland China in 2005, it licensed its brand to a local auction house and received a total of RMB 97,000,000 (roughly $12,100,000) for its inaugural sale. [1] A relaxed regulatory environment helps explain the enormous growth of the Chinese art market.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

International Exhaustion – The countries where the principle of international exhaustion is followed go by the concept of international markets. This can be understood by analysing the word “market” in Section 30 (3). Samsung Electronics (FAO(OS) 93/2012); The Trade Marks Act, 1999, § 29, No. REFERENCES Kapil Wadhwa v.

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The IPKat

MAY 7, 2024

There, future harmonization initiatives appeared already anchored not only to an internal market-building rationale, but also to the objective of ensuring the now European Union’s overall competitiveness vis-à-vis third countries and the need to strike a fair balance between the rights and interests of different parties.

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SpicyIP

MAY 17, 2023

Further, the number of pre-and post-grant oppositions are less than one percent of total patent applications published or patents granted as per annual reports of the office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trademark and Geographical Indications (CGPDTM) during the period 2012-2022 (also see here ). 59, para 1). 56, para 3).

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The company’s Action Replay range battled against Codemasters’ Game Genie, with the latter eventually backing out of the market. In January 2012, the Hamburg Regional Court found largely in Sony’s favor. Datel’s venture into the new world of videogame cheat devices was more controversial.

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Copyright Copying Art Copyright Infringement 145

Velocity of Content

APRIL 26, 2023

One study found that overall registration rates for women authors increased from 30% to 36% between 1978 and 2012, with significant differences depending on the type of work.

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Intellectual Property Registration Intellectual Property Law Marketing 98

Patently-O

JUNE 25, 2024

Hickma highlights some of the challenges that generics are facing when marketing drugs with these carved-out labels. The skinny label itself will not be enough to show inducement, but that evidence can be combined with other evidence (such as marketing) to prove liability. The Patents at Issue. The asserted patents, U.S. Patent Nos.

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The IPKat

JUNE 25, 2023

It then issues to those local producers, whose pepper is compliant with the PDO’s requirements, a certificate that allows them to market their products under the PDO “Piment D’Espelette”. Indeed, the defendant was marketing a “pepper variety gorria type espelette”. 13(1)(a) Regulation (EU) 1151/2012). So what happened earlier?

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

5] The idea is affected by the market value of the original work and its usage. It is provided that the courts also consider the market impact, audience perception, and concept of ‘transformative work’ while determining cases under Section 52. Narsimhasn, 2015 SCC OnLine Mad 364 [2] Kamble Sayabanna Kallappa v.

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Fair Use 59

TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2022

For example, another recent target – Mixdrop.co – loads with no issues and the same holds true for ThePirateBay.org, the BPI’s first ever blocking target a decade ago in 2012. It’s hard to draw firm conclusions but this tends to suggest that EE doesn’t view site blocking as an exciting marketing opportunity.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to a report by Markets and Markets, the cryptocurrency market is expected to grow from USD 1.6 In a broad sense, blockchain technology can be defined as an open ledger of information that is used to keep a digital record of the transactions that occur in the crypto market. billion in 2021 to USD 2.2

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Intellectual Property Non-Fungible Tokens Copyfraud Contracts 94

Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 3, 2024

Originally posted 2012-03-18 14:49:20. Republished by Blog Post PromoterGoogle struck back last week (again), according to Eric Goldman’sTechnology & Marketing Law Blog. Google’s stock “gave back” (as they say) double-digit dollars from its recent runup the same day as Eric’s posting.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As far back as 2012, Adobe was planning for the eventual demise of its iconic Flash Player. Gradually superceded by new technologies, the importance Flash diminished over time and as dawn broke on 2021, Adobe ceased to develop and support it. Well, sort of.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

A similar but broader effort failed in 2012 but twelve years is a very long time; in the tech and internet world, it’s almost forever. Memories of SOPA: “Blocking Didn’t Break The Internet” Rivkin mentions the SOPA defeat in 2012 by citing one of the key claims by the opposition.

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