SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A Case of ‘Smart Copying’: ‘Peace Maker’ Restrained from Imitating ‘Officer’s Choice’ Do you enjoy your whiskey? A bit of factual background before we move ahead to the legal analysis: Allied Blenders, a liquor manufacturer, has held a registered trademark for ‘OFFICER’S CHOICE PRESTIGE WHISKY’ label since 2013.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Marrakesh Treaty Marrakesh Treaty was adopted on June 27, 2013, to facilitate access to published works for people who are Blind Persons, Visually Impaired Persons, or Print Disabled (hereinafter beneficiary) who refrains from indulging in any printed form of copyrighted work. [iii] 3d 87 (2d Cir. first appeared on IPLF.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Various jewelry designers have obtained IP protection for their jewelry pieces that range from trademark protection of the brand value to protection of the design itself either through copyright and/ or patents. From 2013 to 2015, Cartier filed various design patents for their iconic panther designed jewelry.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In pirate streaming, in part due to the way sites tend to copy each other’s branding, obvious long-standing players are less easy to identify. Back in 2013 we published an interview with a person who at the time supplied movie and TV shows to sites including PrimeWire. is taken into account.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 31, 2021

There apparently is no claim of copying of any lines of software, but instead it is copying of the functionality and use of the particular coding language. My understanding is that WPL designed its software so that its software would execute the same input-procedure used on SAS and produce an equivalent output. 1821 (2013).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These agreements were negotiated in parallel between 2007 and 2013, and entered into force in 2016-2017. The AAs’ IP enforcement norms (modelled on Directive 2004/48/EC , Regulation 608/2013 , and Directive 2000/31/EC ) did not only favour IP rightholders. At the same time, other criticism was indeed fair.

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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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Garrigues Blog

JULY 27, 2021

This time, we will take a look at other equally important branches of IP that are covered by the report: trademarks, industrial designs and creative industry (publishing). Industrial designs. As far as industrial designs are concerned, applications also increased in 2019 with respect to 2018, albeit by a timid 1.7%. Trademarks.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 4, 2022

Fish Principals Craig Deutsch , Jennifer Huang , and Grace Kim , discuss challenging design patents at the PTAB in their Law360 Expert Analysis article. PDF copy available. As an initial matter, design patent trials at the PTAB are relatively rare. The numbers can partly be explained by the nature of design patents.

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IIPRD

JUNE 29, 2022

The monogram was designed to help them brand their firm and prevent copycats from trespassing on their turf. Fashion and luxury goods manufacturing requires a great deal of imagination, from the designs of the garments to the patterns, shapes, logos, symbols, and names associated with them. IP PROTECTION LOUI VUITTON PRODUCTS HAVE.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Application for establishment of BO/LO/PO in India may be submitted by the non-resident entity in Form-FNC to the designated AD Category-I bank and the AD Category-I bank after due diligence shall forward a copy of the Form-FNC along With details to the General Manager, Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi for allotment of Unique Identification Number.

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The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the course of a decade, Google copied large volumes of books and made them available online, both through excerpts, known as “snippets”, and as entire publications. Rather than focusing on the reproduction and dissemination of existing materials, the goal of AI is to rework them to create something new.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. However, Target’s allegedly infringing works apparently were designed no later than December 2017. Work #6: posted to Facebook in 2013 and got 23 likes and 3 comments. Target Corp.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The TTAB has re-designated as precedential its September 2022 opinion in this cancellation proceeding. 92064830 (September 6, 2022) [re-designated as precedential, January 4, 2024] (Opinion by Judge Frances S. 108 USPQ2d 1134, 1145 (TTAB 2013). For what it's worth, Davidson tried but failed to prove a first use date in 2013.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Access Copyright launched the lawsuit against York over copying it said took place from 2011 to 2013, seeking to enforce a Copyright Board approved tariff. York argued that it was not bound by the tariff because it had not agreed to its terms and counter-claimed that any copying at issue was in any event covered by fair dealing.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Because Alexander didn’t register copyrights in her tattoo designs until shortly before filing her complaint in 2018 (long after the claimed infringement first occurred), she’s not entitled to seek recovery of her attorneys’ fees under the Copyright Act. Skull arm design. Bible verse design. Upper back design.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Compendium: Chapter 1200, sections 1201-1202. In particular, Section 1213.2

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fair dealing requirements under Indian law are quite broad, but one would assume they are purpose built for circumstances like this, where short clips from Aaj Tak have been taken and critical commentary added to it by Newslaundry.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung : This was a case, from 2011 to 2018, where Apple took the word against Samsung, claiming infringement of its smartphone design and utility patents. Apple had accused Samsung of copying the features of the iPhone, like the rounded-rectangle shape, home button, and the grid icon layout.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, fair dealing’s designation as an “exception” inherently produces a negative implication: that copyright law is the “natural order” of things. The Court refers to it more specifically as a “user’s right”. That anyone’s use of a copyright-protected work infringes the copyright owner’s property.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 3, 2023

The lawsuit centers around two key components of Moderna’s mRNA platform that it claims Pfizer copied – the use of modified nucleosides like 1-methylpseudouridine and the encoding of a full-length coronavirus spike protein. We might see a different strategy if a non-profit or consumer-focused group had filed.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

In a 51-page opinion, the Board affirmed a refusal to register the product configuration shown below, for "handbags," finding the design to be generic and, alternatively, lacking in acquired distinctiveness: "Handbags embodying the proposed mark are so common in the industry that such product design is not capable of indicating source and.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

The defendant - Mr Aughton - had been developing software for over 50 years and was employed by PQ from 1989 as a software developer and was appointed a director in 2013. 2) was InSPC v1 copied from ProSPC, so as to infringe the copyright in ProSPC or misuse any confidential information in ProSPC?

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. “IJR copied a significant percentage of the Photo in its article, and it only cropped out the negative space while keeping the Photo’s expressive features, or the ‘heart’ of the work.”

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IIPRD

JANUARY 5, 2023

However, to a lesser extent, other IP laws like the Trademark Act and the Designs Act will also be important. Copy right and Indian cinema. 2] Indian Copyright Act 1957, s 17(b), [3] Salim Khan & Ors v Sumeet Prakash Mehra & Ors [2013] 5 Bom CR 556. [7] 1] [link]. [2] 7] CISAC v. Aditya Pandey [2016] SCC Online SC 967.

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43(B)log

JULY 3, 2023

Zuluaga claimed first use of Zenú in 2011; the predecessor company applied to register the mark in 2013, with specimens using actual images of Industria’s products (though Zuluaga claimed lack of knowledge either of Industria or the specimens filed on its behalf by a filing service). Did intentional copying show intent to confuse?

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In March 2013, over 309 renowned authors and academics from around the world wrote to the publishers, urging them to withdraw the lawsuit. Argument by the parties Plaintiff The plaintiff contended that by printing scanned copies of their published books, Rameshwari Photocopy Service had infringed upon their copyright.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2021

Section 1831, by contrast, “is designed to apply only when there is evidence of foreign government sponsored or coordinated intelligence activity and may involve any manner of benefit.” 3) receives, buys, or possesses such information, knowing the same to have been stolen or appropriated, obtained, or converted without authorization.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The engineer of record must indicate on construction drawings the specific structural connectors that will be used on a given project, whether a custom connector designed by the engineer to join and transfer the load between members or a pre-engineered connector. California UCL: same. But it doesn’t matter.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. The Defendant on the other hand relied on the exception of the lack of novelty of the Plaintiff’s design and argued that there are many designs similar to the Plaintiff’s design.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The Plaintiffs highlighted specific instances where the Defendants falsely represented themselves as the Plaintiffs when applying for work for the Kenya Film Commission’s Technical Proposal KFC/OT/05/2013/2014 by using the Plaintiffs’ trademark ‘ACAL' without the Plaintiffs’ authority or consent.

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The TTABlog

APRIL 5, 2022

Turning to the 10th DuPont factor, which concerns the market imterface between applicant and registrant, the Board reviewed a 2013 agreement between the parties' predecessors [a copy of which is appended to the opinion]. The details are what "lend substance and probative value to a consent agreement."

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2024

The Patent Office issued the FER dated 31 st May, 2013 objecting to the claims under Section 2(1)(j), 3(h) of the Patents Act, 1970 (Act). Thus, the Controller further directed the Appellant to file a fresh translated copy of the PCT application. The Controller of Patents and Designs. Which is precisely what J.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Following the 2013 BGH decision Geburtstagszug , several lower courts afforded copyright protection in the area of applied art despite only a minor degree of individual character. This is again the case for its decision Das Boot III , which concerns the presumption of authorship set out in Section 10(1) UrhG.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ltd [2022] EWHC 1895 (Ch) (July 2022) In our last volume , we reported on Samsung being held directly liable as a platform for copied watch faces for Samsung smartwatches. In 2013, Cadbury’s registration for Pantone 2685C was held invalid because its description rendered it void for lack of certainty. It was ambiguous.

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