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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

And the number of active trademark registrations in the USPTO database is larger than ever. Additionally, since late December 2021, when new procedures went into effect, the USPTO has received around 100 expungement petitions and about 100 re-examination petitions to get rid of registrations for marks that are allegedly not in use.

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[Guest post] Free Holdings case raises important issues regarding the legal nature of NFTs

The IPKat

If a new user re-registers a name whose registration is expired, a new token is created. However, and beyond the fact that the registration is expired, any name maintains in the blockchain its own history. McCoy’s registration on the Namecoin blockchain expired In January 2015.

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Can AI-generated works be protected by copyright? No, according to US Copyright Office.

CopyrightsWorld

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office.

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Is it possible to protect AI-generated works with copyright? According to the US Copyright Office, no.

CopyrightsWorld

The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office.

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Africa IP highlights 2021 #1: The copyright field

The IPKat

The Court of Appeal however found that there was enough evidence before the court to prove CPL’s ownership of the copyright in the artwork (as it had commissioned and paid for the artwork). It therefore held that Morison was also liable for copyright infringement of the artwork in the registered trademark.

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Court Slips Up in Duct-Taped Banana Copyright Case

Copyright Lately

Plaintiff Joe Morford claims that the copyright in his artwork (L) has been infringed by defendant Maurizio Cattelan. He sold three versions of the artwork for a total of nearly four hundred thousand dollars before enormous selfie-seeking monkeys crowds forced him to split early. ” Add a few zeros, Lucille. Plagiarism much?”

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Dastar prevents misrepresentation of source of IP from being material

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Restellini allgedly “offer[ed] his opinions as to whether or not artworks should be included in the planned catalogue raisonné” in “oral consultation” with WI employees, based on the information and materials “researched, collected, synthesized, analyzed and expressed by” the employees.