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Trade Dress Protection for Non-Traditional Marks in the Fashion Industry

IP and Legal Filings

In fact, if a competitor merely copies a distinctive design like Louis Vuitton’s handbag pattern to make consumers believe that a particular product is coming from them, this gives a potential for confusion. 7] Tiffany & Co v Costco Wholesale Corp (2015) US District Court for the Southern District of New York. [8]

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Protecting Semiconductor Chip Design under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA) – Part I (Registration and Inspection)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. Right of remuneration (Sections 32 et seqq. Capacity to be subject to legal action.

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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

Along the way, we discussed why a knockoff Beetlejuice costume is titled “Juice Demon”, the ways that intellectual property laws govern Halloween costumes and the ways one could find themselves in trouble. At the time, it was facing accusations that it was as plagiarism of a 2015 short student film.

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Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law: Conflicting or Complementing

IIPRD

Introduction If we take a broader look at the Intellectual Property Laws, the primary objective of the legislation in framing these laws is to provide exclusive rights to the IP right holder as against the entire world. Competition Commission of India, 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 592 livelaw.in

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AI and Fair Use: Navigating Legal Challenges in India and the United States

IIPRD

Thus, fundamental questions arise, such as whether such copying amounts to infringement under copyright law or whether it falls under the purview of fair use. 2015) [1] is one of the most cited cases in this context. 2015) [2] Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Image Sources: Shutterstock] Authors Guild v.

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

Patently-O

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. Posner, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (2003). 702 (2015). Patents should be the go-to in this area. Landes & Richard A.

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