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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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Drawing on 2023 filing, registration and renewals statistics from national and regional IP offices and WIPO, WIPI covers patents, utility models, trade marks, industrial designs, microorganisms, plant variety protection and geographical indications.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 31, 2022

This was backed up by the Business Software Alliance, which released a survey in 2018 that said some 62% of all software installed in the country was unlicensed. This was coupled with site blocking legislation, which often targets local sites as well as international ones, and by September 2018 had blocked some 6,000 sites.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

The website features information about the CCB, updates on the process, and users can register a CCB Designated Service Agent to receive notices and communication from the CCB. The program, which was founded in 2018, will provide guides for best practices for cloud providers.

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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. In 2018, the intermediate court reversed. The Facts. The lower court initially dismissed the case on 230 grounds.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Also, many have design errors due to their age. A Story of Missed Attribution and Missed Opportunity : Finally, this September 2018 article tells the story of the musician Aurelio Voltaire and how his potential big break became something of a bust. I’m working to fix those, but it will take time.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

Copyright Office would oversee to designate standard technical measures through a public rulemaking process. Next up today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision that favored the electronic musician Marshmello over his 2018 hit song Happier.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

The Watch Tower filed a lawsuit against him in 2018 and has attempted to use DMCA subpoenas to unveil his identity. In addition to those issues, NetEase also claims that Tencent ripped off their app and interface designs. It is unclear what NetEase is seeking in the case in terms of either financial or injunctive relief.

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 15, 2023

An auto parts maker fighting with General Motors has laid out its case before the full Federal Circuit to discard rules the court adopted that set a high bar for invalidating design patents, in what is poised to become the appeals court's first en banc review of a patent case since 2018.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The USPTO refused to register the mark BEDLAM VODKA in the word-plus-design form shown below left, for vodka [VODKA disclaimed], finding confusion likely with the registered mark BEDLAM! in the word-plus-design form shown below right, for beer. How do you think this appeal came out? In re Graybeard Distillery, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2024

In a dispute over the validity of design patents covering the fenders of GM’s 2018-2020 Chevrolet Equinox, the Federal Circuit overturned its own long-standing Rosen-Durling “rigid” standard for assessing obviousness of design patents, returning to a “flexible” standard that will make it easier for parties to challenge the validity of design patents (..)

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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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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. The asserted design patent, U.S. 607, 612 (2018).).

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Justice Moshinsky of the Federal Court of Australia found that Aldi had crossed the line from borrowing the "look and feel" of the Puffs packaging into taking the actual forms of expression in the design, layout, colours, fonts, and figures. In 2019, Aldi undertook a re-design of its MAMIA range of baby food products.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

from 1990-2018. Some examples include specially designed hardware to improve training efficiency by working with GPU/TPU/NPU/xPU (e.g., For instance, a second deep neural network may be designed to compete against the first one to identify its weaknesses. In recent years, AI patent activity has exponentially increased.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2022

However, it was in 2018 that she was offered an additional contract. For this, her payment jumped from $220,000 to $510,000 in 2018 and remained above $500,000 in 2019. 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.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

SoClean’s problem back in 2018 was how to protect these filters with intellectual property. ” In general, that amount of evidence is insufficient to support a product design trade dress registration. The SoClean device has a compact filter that should be replaced every six-months–creating a nice subscription market.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The England and Wales Court of Appeal has upheld lower rulings that two patent applications designating an artificial intelligence called DABUS as the inventor were deemed to be withdrawn. Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents Trade Marks And Designs [2021] EWCA Civ 1374.)

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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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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This year, for the first time since 2018, we will be open, and we couldn’t be more excited. It’s an interesting area of nuance that incorporates the nuance of copyright and fashion design and mixes it with trademark issues. However, for the past few years, the haunt has been closed. Bottom Line.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The so-called NHK-Fintiv rule, resulting from Board-designated precedential cases in 2018 and 2020, allows the PTAB to decline review of a patent based on several discretionary factors, including whether the patent is being asserted in ongoing. By: Haug Partners LLP

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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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

In Cyprus, Texas , Valcrum, LLC (“Valcrum”), a company specializing in trailer and axle market products, is engaged in a legal dispute with Dexter Axle Company, LLC (“Dexter”) from Indiana over trademark and trade dress infringement regarding a hubcap design.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A revolution in structural biology: From protein structure to drug-design AlphaFold is a machine learning model for predicting the 3D structure of proteins. These abilities mean that AlphaFold3 will potentially be a powerful tool for in silico drug design and screening. Protein structure - and Kats!

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Intepat

MARCH 25, 2025

Most notably, in 2018, the Hasbro toy company registered the distinctive smell of their toy Play-Doh as a scent trademark. These products are essentially replicas of luxury or designer fragrances, crafted to mimic the scent profile of high-end perfumes at a fraction of the cost.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a 2018 interview, he openly admitted that “All my ideas are stolen anyway,” which many of his fellow artists saw as an open confession to plagiarism. The system isn’t designed to punish plagiarism and likely won’t since it would also punish the earlier investors. It’s a sad, frustrating tale.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a decision delivered this week, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (the Court) has upheld the design infringement claim brought by Marks and Spencer (M&S) against Aldi in respect of their gin-based flavoured liqueur range, in what may be a catalyst for a shift from trade mark law to design law for product "lookalike" claims.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2025

Introduction to the cyber-crime and the cyber-world; The cyber-crime can be defined as any criminal activity that involves advanced technology specially; any malfunctioning in Computers, Softwares designed, Networked devices or any other related device can be considered cyber-crime. The malware exploited a Microsoft Windows vulnerability.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Fashion designers and artists showcase their creative genius through conceptual fashion shows and apparel collections. In India, as of 2018, the industry was valued at over five trillion INR and is expected to reach about 223 billion dollars by 2021. Design act and its importance in the fashion industry. dollars in the USA.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 20, 2025

“During a single world championship boxing match broadcast by Sky in February 2018, McNally claimed to have, over 2,000 subscribers to his illegal service.” The Court heard that the number of subscribers was a bit lower than that, as FACT reveals. ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Design patents play a role when we have them, typically a handbag/jewelry/diamond cuts/chain designs/shoes. Issue: legal is often the last to know of new designs, so you need to know before the design is launched: need to explain that legal needs to be part of the process. More partial designs.

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Patently-O

JUNE 24, 2024

Albright sitting by designation. = = = In his first appellate opinion, Judge Alan D. Albright of the Western District of Texas (sitting by designation at the Federal Circuit) authored the appellate court’s recent unanimous decision in Apple v. 1348 (2018), and Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. Omni MedSci , No. 23-1034 (Fed.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2018, broadcaster DISH Network sued the people behind pirate IPTV service SetTV for illegally obtaining the company’s broadcasting from its satellite service and redistributing them online. On June 4, 2018, the court issued a temporary restraining order against the SetTV defendants, which included measures to freeze their assets.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

2018) (Even if true [that Registrant athletic club sells clothing only to members and in one store], this assertion is, once again, irrelevant.). Since there are no restrictions in the registration, Applicants restriction of its own identification of goods "does not impose a meaningful limitation." See In re Detroit Ath. 3d 1297, 1308 (Fed.

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Patently-O

APRIL 12, 2024

By Dennis crouch The international IP community is moving toward further harmonizing legal protection for industrial designs. In the US, these are design patent rights. ” Several years ago, the US implemented the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Hague System).

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Over the past five years the Australian Government has committed significant resources to several copyright-related initiatives , not least the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2018. A 2018 report from Incopro ( pdf ) noted that it “resulted in a usage reduction of 53.4%

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