The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pursuant to Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation 2017/1001 (EUTMR), a trade mark which has not been put to genuine use by its holder within five years after its registration may be liable to revocation unless there are valid reasons for its non-use.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

According to Pediatrics, a journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the number of children under six years old who have consumed cannabis products surged by 1,375% from 2017 to 2021. Pediatric Edible Cannabis Exposures and Acute Toxicity: 2017–2021, Pediatrics (Jan. See Marit S. Tweet et al.,

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2024

A private prosecution brought by the Federation Against Copyright Theft alleged that Longbottom’s operation ran from August 2015 to May 2017. Caravan Static, Longbottom On the Move Officers from Greater Manchester Police raided Longbottom’s caravan in January 2017, but the entrepreneur wasn’t home, or even in the UK.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Back in 2017, the company faced widespread criticism for encouraging “ Freebooting “, a practice where users would download YouTube videos and reupload them on Facebook, exploiting Facebook’s algorithm to obtain very high viewing numbers.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2017, Trading Standards went on record stating that streaming consumers had nothing to fear under copyright law, a position supported – albeit briefly – by the European Commission. Early 2017: Not Illegal. Early 2017: Not Illegal. Like never before, streaming piracy was skyrocketing.

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

Under Rule 45 of the 2017 Rules, again service of counter statement is by the Applicant itself and not by the Registrar.” 1959 Rules, 2002 Rules and 2017 Rules – Mending Invisible Gaps? Curiously omitted in 2002 Rules and the 2017 Rules is the phrase “ by the Registrar ”. Chairperson (Para 66). of Dhanbad Municipality ).

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It was February 2017 when Waymo, Google’s self-driving car unit, sued Uber in what would become the biggest trade secret case of the century. Waymo alleged that its former manager, Anthony Levandowski, had organized a competing company while still at Waymo, and before leaving had downloaded 14,000 confidential documents.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The suit claims that these parties are responsible for the creation of an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of Tesla’s Cybercab using iconic imagery from Alcon’s 2017 theatrical release Blade Runner 2049.

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The IPKat

JULY 28, 2022

The case also had an instalment before the Court of Justice of the European Union ( C-371/18 ), which was asked to provide guidance on the requirements of clarity and precision in trade mark law and the scope of the absolute ground for refusal/invalidity concerning bad faith [IPKat here ].

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 26, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by musician Greg Kihn, who sued the site in 2017. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that a lawsuit against the online concert archive Wolfgang’s Vault has ended as the two sides have reached an agreement to settle it.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 17, 2022

The scariest part of all, we’ve seen this exact behavior before, and it did not go well in 2017 either. In July 2017, the photo hosting service Photobucket announced a major change to its terms of service. We’ve Seen This Before.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 22, 2022

According to court records, In December 2017 and January 2018, a faculty member at the university filed a complaint with the university’s research integrity officer that indicated Pohl had committed plagiarism in two separate publications, one in 2013 and another in 2017.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

” The research is part of a recurring series which has tracked European piracy rates since 2017. — A copy of the “Online Copyright Infringement in the European union title-level study: Film, Music, Publications, Software and TV (2017-2023)” report, is available here (pdf).

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 22, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the trio collaborated with Lizzo in 2017 to create the song, which included an unreleased song entitled Healthy that they had created. First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that Lizzo has reached a settlement with her former collaborators over her hit song Truth Hurts.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Shortly after much of the Corden/Gervais controversy died down, another allegation revived, this one comparing a joke Corden in 2017 to an earlier joke by comedian Noel Fielding. Yes I believe this is my material x [link] — noel fielding (@noelfielding11) December 7, 2017.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

1, 2017 to the present. 1, 2017 to present. 1, 2017 to the present. S, who is not necessarily the Redditor: 1. All written communications with RCN concerning piracy from Oct. Payment records to RCN from Oct. All personal computing records pertaining to usage of BitTorrent from Oct.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2022

Between 2017 and April 30, 2021, Fernandez and Teran began monetizing music on YouTube for a vast library of more than 50,000 songs, none of which they owned the rights to. In early 2017, Teran and I created an entity called MediaMuv L.L.C., I began searching for these songs and uploading them to [YouTube], as mp3 files.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 24, 2022

Back in September 2017, Butz drew widespread criticism from the poker world for taking photographs of famous poker players and creating stylized paintings of them and selling some as NFTs. However, after an outcry from photographers, who said they were never asked nor gave permission, Butz agreed to stop.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 28, 2022

million lawsuit filed against them over the 2017 song Privacy. The estate appealed that to the Supreme Court, which has announced that it has granted cert in the case and will hear it in the fall. 2: Chris Brown, Sony Respond To Greensleeves’ US$1.5 Million Copyright Lawsuit Over Red Rat’s Song.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 27, 2022

However, the group argues that MODS copied at least two of their exhibitions, Boundaries from 2017 and Crystal from 2015. One of their exhibits is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 27, 2022

In 2017 CNN alleged that they had found evidence of plagiarism in Sheriff David Clark’s master’s thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 24, 2017. Whenever we get a political plagiarism scandal, the sides are drawn not on the severity of the plagiarism, but on the politics involved. — Kevin M.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The original lawsuit was filed in September 2017 and was initially dismissed by the court the next year. The lawsuit was filed by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, who claim that Swift’s Shake it Off is a copyright infringement of their 2001 song, Playas Gon’ Play , which was written for the R&B group 3LW.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 9, 2022

Finally today, Mark Savage at BBC News reports that Ed Sheeran is currently on the stand in his trial over his 2017 hit song Shape of You. Meanwhile, the plaintiffs are waiting for the court to issue findings on their motion for sanctions before moving for a default judgment against the defendants.

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Christopher Roser

MAY 28, 2024

In 2017-18, I had the chance to visit factories of all seven Japanese car makers as part of my Grand Tour of Japanese Automotive. In the last few weeks, I had the chance to repeat this for Germany and do a Grand Tour of German Automotive. Let me show you what I saw and what.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by members of the band Artikal Sound System, which accused Lipa of using elements from their 2017 song Live Your Life in the song. Finally today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that lawyers representing Dua Lipa have filed a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit over Lipa’s 2020 hit song Levitating.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 25, 2022

In 2017, BREIN booked a prominent victory at the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it’s illegal to sell devices that are pre-configured to access copyright-infringing content. It’s big business too, generating hundreds of millions of euros in revenue in Europe alone.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The eligibility of the candidates for the Trademarks Agent Exam is given under Rule 144 of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017 and the eligibility of the candidates for the Patent Agent Exams is given under Section 126 of the Patents Act, 1970.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Originally posted 2017-12-08 01:42:50.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The data comes from the internet monitoring form Muso, which reported that music piracy had been in a steady decline since January 2017. However, in 2021, the trend started to reverse. That decline represented a 65% decrease in the number of visits to music piracy websites. increase in such visits compared to 2020.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Diplomatic Moves, Reincarnation In 2017, Ted Osius, U.S. Following these discussions, in March 2017 one of the sites mentioned – 123movies – suddenly went offline. An incredible chart from a 2017 Danish site-blocking study conducted by Rights Alliance shows that 123movies didn’t really die.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JULY 8, 2024

Originally posted 2017-11-27 11:10:41. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe first installment of this new feature excerpted Gary Gulman’s assault on soft-brand drinks. 2 – Jim Gaffigan appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 11, 2022

This is actually the second lawsuit between the two, as Riot sued Moonton over similar allegations in 2017. To support their claims, Riot included images of similar characters and elements between the two games, making the argument that Moonton crossed the line into copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Jingna Zhang, who alleged that Dieschurg copied a photo she took in 2017 when creating a painting. Finally today, Chandler Treon at NextShark reports that, in Luxembourg, a court has ruled that artist Jeff Dieschburg did not infringe the work of a Singaporean photographer.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 26, 2022

Finally today, Ben Feuerherd and Maggie Hicks at Page Six report that reality TV star Bethenny Frankle has been sued over allegedly infringing a photograph while publicizing her charity work in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 8, 2023

A spreadsheet recovered as part of the investigation, covering the period February 2017 to April 2018, reveals Flawless turnover (gross revenue) per month at the top and the names of 10 ‘Senior Staff’ employees and how much they were paid directly underneath.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 27, 2023

For comparison, in 2017 all rightsholders combined filed 1,019 file-sharing cases. 12,500+ Strike 3 filed its first case in 2017 and since then has submitted over 12,500 complaints at federal courts. This is a new milestone; never before has a copyright holder filed this many lawsuits against alleged file-sharers in a single year.

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