SpicyIP

JULY 28, 2021

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Yashi Agrawal on India’s recent accession to the Locarno Agreement, discussing inter alia the resultant amendments to India’s design laws and prospective benefits to India on becoming a part of the Locarno Special Union and Assembly. Yashi Agrawal. India and the Locarno Agreement.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online. 2: Ruling Opens the Door to Protecting Room Design Under the Copyright Act. The case was brought by LDC Hotels & Resorts against Sheraton Taitung Hotel.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. Under the SCPA, a mask work is a series of related images that forms a design or part of a design used to produce an integrated circuit. In particular, Section 1213.2

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 25, 2022

Finally today, Jennifer Edwards Baker at Fox19 reports that, in Ohio, the Goshen Township police have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the design of their police badge. The lawsuit was filed by Louis Kohus, who claims to have designed some eight drafts of the badge for the department in 2015.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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. As far as the collective remuneration rules under Section 36 UrhG are concerned, there are two BGH decisions from 2015 that can be looked at ( here and here ).

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The trend of the US International Trade Commission issuing remedial orders for design patents at higher percentages than for utility patents continued in 2023.1 From 2015-2023, 356 such investigations were concluded. And of those 356 investigations, 187 cases proceeded to Final Determination.

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Patently-O

JULY 20, 2023

2023) The Timberland Boot trade dress case is pending before the Fourth Circuit, raising some interesting questions about the role of product trade dress vs design patents vs copyright vs utility patents. Timberland boots were first sold in the 1970s with a unique design that quickly resonated with consumers. Vidal (4th Cir.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 13, 2023

My 2015 article, The Patented Design , was mentioned several times during the argument. In that article, I argued that a design patent’s scope should be limited to the design as applied to a specific type of product. Sarah Burstein, The Patented Design , 83 Tenn. 161, 219–20 (2015) (footnotes omitted).

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

This Kat has found a recent decision issued by the Paris Court of Appeal in a dispute over the allegedly unlawful reproduction of a t-shirt design. This ruling was an opportunity for the court to reiterate that a garment can be protected by copyright and design law. Opull’ence appealed.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 2015, The Publishers Association, a UK organization supporting members producing digital and print books, research journals and educational resources, broke new ground by becoming the first entity in the UK to use Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to obtain blocking measures.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 31, 2022

New laws that took effect in 2015 made it easier for rightsholders to order sites within the country to shut down for repeated copyright violations. One country simply deciding to withdraw from that creates unique challenges that the current system is simply not designed to handle.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2021

Columbia first sued Seirus in 2013 in federal court in Washington, alleging infringement of its design patent by the HeatWave fabric included within Seirus’ HeatWave products. Columbia refiled the case in 2015 in federal court in Oregon and added two utility patents directed to partial coverage of heat-reflective materials on fabrics.

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The IPKat

MARCH 25, 2024

If you knew how to complete this phrase in 2015, you are part of the few percent of consumers who heard of the city of Compton and knew about its connection with hip-hop and rap music. Background On 8 September 2015, BIW Invest AG (‘BIW’) applied for registration of EU trade mark no.

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

Design patents allow breweries to safeguard these elements of aesthetic distinction, securing exclusive rights to their innovative designs. Some examples of beer glasses design patents in the US: BEER GLASS US D954,504 S Inventors: Nicolas Brouillac Assignee: PEUGEOT SAVEURS Date of Patent: Jun. Date of Patent: Feb.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This time, the casus belli came from a question related to the requirements needed to allow the cumulation of design and copyright protection for works of industrial design and applied art (WAA). 23292/2015, reiterated by Cass. In addition, the Court of Appeal ruled out that the lamp was a protectable work of design under art.2(1)(10)

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 31, 2023

On August 30, the office of the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks (CGPDTM) released a public notice inviting comments from stakeholders to revamp the different IP guidelines and manuals. The invitation is specific to the Patents, Designs, Trademarks, GI and Copyright Manuals and Guidelines.

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The IPKat

MAY 16, 2023

The threshold for design protection in the EU is low. The design must be new and have individual character ( Art. 4(1) Community Design Regulation , ‘CDR’). The purpose of this grace period is to allow the designer or its successor to test the products in which the design is embodied in the market ( Recital 20 CDR ).

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

So much so that the post-1902 Act regional circuit design patent cases invalidating design patents on functionality grounds would come out oppositely under the Federal Circuit’s lax standards. In 2015, it sought copyright registration of this useful article as a sculptural work.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

2015) in finding that manufacture and delivery of a product in a foreign country can infringe a US patent if sufficient sales-activity occurred within the US. Here, apparently the patentee provided substantial evidence that the multi-year process of designs, simulations, test, reworking, sampling, pricing, etc., by Dennis Crouch.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

This dispute arises out of a 2015 transaction between the league and an entity formed to become the San Diego Gulls hockey team, which included the assignment of certain trademarks, including a logo, to the team. The court did not find anything ambiguous about the 2015 assignment agreement. What’s missing here?

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

But while 2017 was the year that the term freebooting came into our collective consciousness (thanks to YouTuber Destin Sandlin), the practice actually began to fist get attention in early 2015 , when Facebook’s video offering was still fairly new. Facebook has always prioritized engagement over originality.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dear Rich: I am adapting needlework-like designs used in pottery/chinaware by creating patterns for needleworkers. What are the laws covering those designs for which I cannot get permission? What are the laws covering those designs for which I cannot get permission? That depends on these factors: Do you need permission?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2015, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) released a re-evaluation report on the safety of glyphosate, more commonly known as the weed killer Roundup. At this time, neither the CCI nor the European Commission has released any comment. Copy and Paste Roundup. Unattributed use of outside content does not help that image.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Access controls on these devices are designed to prevent unauthorized access to copyrighted works,” the copyright holders wrote. Similar comments were made in 2015 when the Smart-TV exemption was discussed, and the Copyright Office sees no reason to change its position.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Part 1 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 is available here , and parts 3 and 4 will be published on the blog over the coming days. . A decision in 2015 concerned the definition of “public” in the act of communication.

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The IPKat

MAY 8, 2022

Here's what Hanne writes: Second time is a charm: Danish design company wins plant box war by Hanne Kirk On 22 April 2022, the Danish Eastern High Court handed down its decision in yet another dispute concerning applied art and the question of originality and infringement under copyright law. Its products are sold in more than 60 countries.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Patent Box was introduced in Italy in 2015. In a nutshell, the previous system provided for an increased exemption of 50% of the income deriving from the economic exploitation of intangible assets (in 2015 the percentage of exemption was 30%, in 2016 40%).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In 2015, The Publishers Association, an organization supporting members producing digital and print books, research journals and educational resources, broke new ground by becoming the first publishing entity to use Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to obtain blocking measures. The Publishers Association.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The IPKat is received the following report by Katfriend Caroline Theunis (ELSA International) on the recent discussion of a Design Law Treaty at WIPO. They constitute the “SCT”, referring to the Committee covering design law issues within WIPO. If so, what should that entail?

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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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

IPR2021-01466, Paper 34 (March 10, 2023) (designated: November 15, 2023) (regarding prior art status under AIA § 102) The Director designated as precedential a final written decision holding that, for AIA patents, an analysis under Dynamic Drinkware v. 2015) is not required for determining whether a reference patent is prior art.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

In July 2015, we looked at the case of The Dollop , which was accused of plagiarizing from the website Damn Interesting for its podcasts. The various anti-copying tools we have available were designed to solve a very specific problem that existed on the internet over 20 years ago. A Repeating Problem. This is not a new problem.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Over the last 20 years, the total number of design patents issued per year in the United States has erupted. As illustrated in the graph below and further highlighted in this animated graph, in the 30 year period between the years 1971 and 2000 a total of nearly 219,000 design patents were issued by the U.S.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

District Court in New Mexico, alleged that UO infringed the NAVAJO trademark in a way that inaccurately linked the Navajo Nation with designs printed on UO garments. On August 15, Chinatown revealed their rebrand and began promoting new designs emblazoned with their new name, “Market”. As individuals, we can shop consciously.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Trade Marks and Designs Anna Maria Stein commented the latest decision ( T-537/22 ) about the validity of Lego's registered Community design for “Building blocks from a toy building set”. Alessandro Cerri discussed the recent CJEU decision on the scope of the referential use exception as amended by the 2015 Trade Mark Directive.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Mandatory ISP blockades, set to take pirate streams offline within 30 minutes, were just one part of an overall package designed to turn the tables on piracy services and, if necessary, punish the Italian citizens who subscribe to them.

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