Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Originally posted 2017-06-14 11:52:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Yes, it’s another pop star seeking to assert digital trademark rights. ” As you’d […] The post Gene Simmons gives the fingers to the PTO appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In 2017 the Dr. Seuss Estate was embroiled in a legal war over a parody one-woman play named Who’s Holiday , which lampooned How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The parody eventually won, but at Christmas 2017, the case was still very much up in the air, prompting this reimagining. 10: How the Seuss Estate Stole Christmas.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by Artikal Sound System, a band behind the 2017 song Live Your Life. According to the lawsuit, the album that Live Your LIfe was on reached the number 2 spot for reggae in 2017, meaning that it’s very easy for Dua Lipa to have heard it.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 7, 2022

That one was filed by members of the reggae band Artikal Sound, who claimed that Levitating was an infringement of their 2017 track Live Your Life. 2: Ed Sheeran is a ‘Magpie’ Who ‘borrows’ Ideas, Copyright Trial Hears.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Piracy Isn’t Always a Crime, Even When Dressed Up as Something Else As telecoms regulator AGCOM warns that people who simply use pirate IPTV subscriptions risk having their details forwarded for prosecution, a case with alleged offenses dating back to January 2017 has been progressing in the background.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

The last time the FTC published this type of report was in December 2020, covering fiscal year 2017. By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 26, 2022

However, under the conventional theory of damages, Starz would have only been eligible for damages on infringements going back to May 2017, three years before the lawsuit was filed in May 2020. According to BREIN, this is just one of more than 50 such services it has shuttered since 2017.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

That sits in stark contrast to the image below, which shows an early promotion of the channel on Twitter in 2017. First reported by CNews, the publication said that Telegram had “destroyed” RuTracker’s channel.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Following the Supreme Courts TC Heartland decision in 2017, a patent owner may only sue an alleged infringer in either: (1) a judicial district of the state where the defendant is incorporated; or (2) a judicial district where the defendant has a regular and established place of business and has committed acts of alleged infringement.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Had a crystal ball been available back in 2017, Merrell would’ve observed the operators of Flawless being sent to prison in 2023 for more than 30 years. In a subsequent interview Merrell admitted that he’d serviced 1,000 customers since 2017, a figure later revised to 2,000 by 2021.

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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

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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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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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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 10, 2025

Court documents claim the Photograph was registered with the United States Copyright Office (USCO) on January 19, 2017. The Plaintiff alleges that the Defendant used his Photograph without permission, violating U.S. copyright laws.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to the author, Fay Evans, the character in the commercial is strikingly similar to her picture book Fred the Fire-Sneezing Dragon , which she published in 2017.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 12, 2022

The dispute began in 2017 when a dispute between the countries resulted in Saudi Arabia issuing a blockade against Qatar. Finally today, Andrew Mills at Reuters reports that Qatar and Saudi Arabia have put an end to their dispute before the World Trade Organization over the alleged piracy of Qatari television provider beIN.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

2017) 236 DLT 478 (DB). [1] 2017) 236 DLT 478 (DB). [link] Sneha Makaria, Shreeya Sharma & Amitesh Mishra, From Fair Use to AI Abuse- The Copyright Drama Unfolding on Indian YouTube, Naik & Naik Company, (22 nd August 2024). Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. Vs Myspace Inc & Anr. 7] Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding is pleased to announce that the Under Secretary of Commerce and United States Patent and Trademark Office Director, 2017-2021, Continue reading

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 26, 2024

Novo Nordisk’s patented drug Ozempic® (semaglutide injection) was first approved by the FDA in 2017 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The June 2024 issue of Vanity Fair included the provocative headline: “Why Counterfeit Ozempic Is a Global-Growth Industry." By: Knobbe Martens

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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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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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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

247TVStream $7 Million in Subscription Fees The authorities say that the service had been in operation since May 2017 and caused more than $100 million in damages to copyright holders. The pirate service itself also generated substantial revenues during this time; over $7 million in subscriber fees according to the indictment.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the lawsuit, the shops had a license between 2009 and 2017, but that services were terminated due to non-payment. Currently, nearly €40,000 ($39,000) USD remains outstanding. However, despite the termination of the contract, the shops continued to show Sis broadcasts, despite multiple warnings to stop.

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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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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2023

The pertinence of this to the matter at hand is – that while deciding on whether Microsoft’s technology was eligible for a patent, it relied on CRI’s 2016 guidelines , instead of the 2017 guidelines. This is relevant, because the application of the 2017 guidelines would likely have yielded an entirely different result.

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