IP Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2021

This article concerns the impact of Ex Parte Sauerberg, a 2017 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision, on the safe harbor provision of 35 U.S.C. § Section 121 is designed to address potential unfairness that may arise from the interplay of two common aspects of patent prosecution practice.

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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. Each bring their personal perspective to this issue.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

It will also inspire plaintiffs to bring more negligent design claims against Internet services–a looming tsunami of litigation. I’ve blogged this case three times before, in 2017 , 2018 and 2020. The Ninth Circuit reversed, saying that the plaintiffs could plead around Section 230 by alleging defective design.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2024

By decision of 24 January 2024 ( T-537/22 ), the General Court of the European Union (GC) confirmed the validity of the Registered Community Design (RCD) by Lego A/S (Lego) “Building blocks from a toy building set” by stating that an RCD is invalid only if all its features are excluded from protection. On 2 February 2010 Lego obtained RCD No.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2022

filed trademark applications for POTIFY in standard characters, and stylized with a design on July 17, 2017, and May 2, 2018, respectively. Applicant U.S. Software Inc.

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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. No carefully crafted sentences designed to mislead.

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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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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

6, 2017), designated precedential in 2017, sets forth seven factors to be considered before discretionarily denying subsequent IPR petitions challenging the same patent. Plastic Indus. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, IPR2016-01357, Paper 19 (PTAB Sept.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Brophy filed the lawsuit alleging that Cardi B’s designer used an image of his back tattoos on the cover of her mixtape. He claimed that the designer simply searched for an image of back tattoos, found his image, and superimposed the pattern on another person.

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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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The IPKat

MAY 6, 2024

Determining the informed user and the way the informed user perceives the design of a specific product are important steps in the assessment whether two designs produce the same overall impression. 002138008-0031 for ‘door and window handles’: The design was registered on 27 November 2017.

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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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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The phrase comes from Lizzo’s 2017 song Truth Hurts (remade in 2019) that has become a viral sleeper hit. Unlike patents and copyrights, trademark law is not designed to reward the creative endeavor of invention or authorship. The original line in the song is “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that b h.”

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Background of the case On 26 October 2018, the Estonian company Eco Oil OÜ filed the following EU Registered Design No. The decision The BoA focused its attention on the (unproven) disclosure of prior designs under Article 7 CDR by means of printed screenshots of web pages. 5809746-0001 (the contested RCD).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Kat friend, Becky Knott, promises that she doesn’t just write about alcohol, see here , but a recent decision involving the Protected Designation of Origin for ‘Porto’ caught her eye (palate?). The application was published for opposition on 6 February 2017. Let’s take a look [BoA decision here , GC decision here , case no T-417/20].

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The TTABlog

APRIL 17, 2023

Chizena went down swinging in this consolidated opposition to his applications to register the word marks ALL RISE and HERE COMES THE JUDGE and the design mark shown below, for "clothing, namely, t-shirts, shirts, shorts, pants, sweatshirts, sweatpants, jackets, jerseys, athletic uniforms, and caps." Pro Boxing Supplies, Inc. ,

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2024

Background On 24 October 2018, The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann GbR (‘KaiKai’) filed an application for the registration of twelve Community designs with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (‘EUIPO’), claiming priority based on a Patent Cooperation Treaty (‘PCT’) patent application filed on 26 October 2017.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Because Crossfirst's filing date was in 2019 and California's in 2017, California had priority. California claimed that its ring design mark is commercially strong, but its evidence did not relate solely to the ring mark. It included evidence regarding use of that mark with the bank name.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 30, 2021

Strikingly, the number of post-grant challenges against biologics patents has precipitously dropped since reaching a peak in 2017. On the legislative front, two members of the House of Representatives proposed a bill designed to decrease drug costs. By: Morgan Lewis

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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. Initially, the Diplomatic Conference to adopt the DLT was scheduled to take place in 2017.

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The IPKat

JUNE 12, 2022

The analysis covers the years 2014 to 2016 and 2017 to 2019. The report measured an industry’s usage of patents, trade marks, and designs, and normalised based on total employment in that industry. of industries for designs, compared to 55% for patents.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2017, partially based upon that report, the European Union voted to renew the license for glyphosate. That public needs to know that their government agencies are completing the work they are tasked with, providing independent oversight of their designated industries and activities.

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IPilogue

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2017, AmoGood was involved in the first Chinese legal action against movie recap producers. Autoai Design Co., G Movie began producing movie recaps in 2017 and has 1.84 His video channel on Bilibili, a popular Chinese video website, has over 2.42 million subscribers and 1400 videos. A Korean Youtuber ???: million subscribers.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Kat readers interested in EU design law likely remember the textbook case concerning the validity of a design for a shower drain. This case, which reached the Court of Justice (CJEU ) in 2017, discussed whether the same public shall be considered when examining novelty, and individual character a design, respectively.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship. According to Unicolors, the retailers infringed on one of their designs and sold various goods with it. 4: The Unicolors Case.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

The Internet is rife with examples of top designers who started with a piece of pirated software, mastered their skills, and went on to become a professional. The researchers examine the effect of software piracy on poverty in developing and Latin American economies between 2003 and 2017.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The TTAB gave little weight to the fact that the agency has issued registration certificates on many different shoe designs. Alternatively, the case should be remanded for consideration of the issue of functionality. TBL Complaint. On the other hand, that same history-based argument will likely be more convincing to a district court judge.

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IIPRD

JUNE 29, 2022

The monogram was designed to help them brand their firm and prevent copycats from trespassing on their turf. Fashion and luxury goods manufacturing requires a great deal of imagination, from the designs of the garments to the patterns, shapes, logos, symbols, and names associated with them. IP PROTECTION LOUI VUITTON PRODUCTS HAVE.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 26, 2024

It sought cancellation of a registration for the mark PREDATOR & Design , issued in 2017, for soft drinks and energy drinks made with natural ingredients, claiming lack of bona fide intent and abandonment. Frequent TTAB litigant Monster Energy lost another one at the TTAB, this time on summary judgment.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 8, 2024

In 2017, tattoo artist James Hayden filed the lawsuit over 2K Games’ realistic portrayals of his tattoo designs on its popular basketball player avatars. The case of Hayden v. 2K Games, Inc. involving a tattoo artist’s copyright battle against the gaming giant, 2K Games, was decided earlier this month.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Incidentally, both proceedings stemmed from a long-running dispute between Piaggio and a Chinese company accused by the former of parasitically copying the Vespa design. patents for technical functionality and copyright and design rights for substantial value) gets circumvented through trade mark law.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Copyright and design rights are often invoked in parallel, particularly in relation to works of applied art [ e.g. IPKat here ]. The court then dismissed the application for revocation on the grounds of non-use within the meaning of Articles 18 and 58(a) EUTMR 2017/1001. A Kat on a monster-truck Facts Feld Motor Sports Inc.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 10, 2023

The given below timelines are relevant for appreciating this case: 6 February 2017 The petitioner filed the US patent application. The given below timelines are relevant for appreciating this case: 6 February 2017 The petitioner filed the US patent application. But he did not.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

At the beginning of this term, she was making $120,000 per year, an amount that had grown to $220,000 in 2016 and 2017. It’s worth noting that McCorquodale says she worked on the book for two years without pay and also paid out of pocket for aides and design work. In 2014 she was offered a five-year extension on that deal.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Gian Chand Jain was dealing with a similar issue since in the Design Act, 1911, the Act didn’t define which High Court would have jurisdiction. The Counsels for the Hershey Company (in page 8, para 8) argued that the designation of ‘High Court’ should be under Section 2(1)(i) of the Patents Act, 1970.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Takedown notices eliminated dozens of repos containing tools designed to provide access to Switch encryption keys , those who linked to similar tools were targeted too.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The plaintiff, NOC, is a teenager who has copyrighted designs in hand-drawn dots that Target allegedly copied in the clothing line. However, Target’s allegedly infringing works apparently were designed no later than December 2017. Reposted to Instagram in 2017 and got 168 likes and 4 comments. Target Corp.

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