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[Guest post] Conference report: ‘The Fashion Marketplace: Law and Policy’

The IPKat

Her description of the various ways in which Amazon is seeking to help brands battle counterfeits (via, for example, its 2017-launched Brand Registry) corroborated her expressed view that counterfeits are bad news for marketplaces too and it is in everyone’s best interests to be proactive.

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The Amendment to the IT Rules, 2021: Part 1 – Locked, Loaded, and Aimed at the Intermediaries

SpicyIP

That all intermediaries shall ensure accessibility to its services and maintain reasonable expectations of due diligence, privacy and transparency. 2017) 240 DLT 3] and in Amway India Enterprises Pvt. That all intermediaries shall respect the rights of citizens guaranteed under the Constitution of India. Amit Kotak & Ors.

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Fish & Richardson Elevates 17 Attorneys to Principal 

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

and foreign patent prosecution, opinion work, due diligence studies, and client counseling in the areas of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, nanotechnology, oil and gas, food and beverage, and medical devices. cum laude , from Georgetown University Law Center in 2017, his Ph.D. She received her J.D. He received his J.D.

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Chancery Pavilion v. Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd: Karnataka High Court’s Problematic Finding on Section 60 Suits

SpicyIP

For this, the High Court relied on the proviso to Section 60, which states that the right to seek actions against the groundless threat of legal proceedings will not apply if the person making such threats, “ with due diligence, commences and prosecutes an action for infringement of the copyright claimed by him. ”

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Italian Supreme Court considers search engines hosting providers and finds them potentially eligible for the application of the hosting safe harbour

The IPKat

In 2017, the colleague of the claimant’s had been found liable of defamation for stating, on a website that he managed, that the claimant was a member of the mafia and the author of several crimes. Background Marcel was not happy when he read something about himself on the internet.

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Synergy Between Ipr And E-Commerce Platforms

IIPRD

13] It has specifically mentioned provisions about the mandate of exercising due diligence and caution while detecting such shams. The exception here is that due diligence must be exercised by them. Furthermore, Rule 3 of IT [16] Act similarly specifies for due diligence. In the case of Tiffany v.

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A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In addition, the scope of the sui generis database right should be significantly reduced either by making it conditional on “ due diligence and transparency standards ” for investments in databases (Derclaye & Husovec, 2021) or on registration ( Wikimedia, 2022 ) or by repealing the right all-together (COMMUNIA, 2017 and 2021 ).