IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

A human inventor serves as the central figure in the design of the patent system. The selection and evaluation of the previous art are aided further by the appropriately designated relevant art. DESIGNS Artificial Intelligence is also capable of creating designs on its own, akin to the inventions made.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 14, 2022

design patents continue to grow in popularity. Although 2021 saw a slight downtick in the number of issued design patents compared to the previous two years—most likely caused by lower filings during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic—the number of U.S. design patents that issued in 2021 was still greater than the number of U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 20, 2022

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European Commission sent notice to several EU member states directing them to codify recent rule changes to EU copyright law; a WIPO report shows that China has a significant lead in global patent application filings for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technologies; Judge O’Grady is removed from the criminal copyright (..)

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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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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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43(B)log

APRIL 2, 2025

2018), rejected similar claims against a former employee, where the allegations were that the former employee had use[d] his position as a Label salesman to sell items represented to be Label goods by placing orders with Label suppliers and then keeping the profits for himself. Label, LLC, 344 F. 3d 680 (S.D.N.Y. 3d 680 (S.D.N.Y.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Photo by Alexander Andrews on Unsplash Europeans are the biggest producers of electronic equipment waste (‘e-waste’); according to recent numbers , in 2018 approximately 4 million tons of e-waste were discarded in the European Union. This choice may be influenced by the design of the product, the cost of repair or available repairers.

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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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The IPKat

MAY 16, 2023

The threshold for design protection in the EU is low. The design must be new and have individual character ( Art. 4(1) Community Design Regulation , ‘CDR’). The purpose of this grace period is to allow the designer or its successor to test the products in which the design is embodied in the market ( Recital 20 CDR ).

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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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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Computer Programs Directive protects “ preparatory design work leading to the development of a computer program provided that the nature of the preparatory work is such that a computer program can result from it at a later stage ” (recital 7). This is not to say that prompts should qualify as preparatory design work.

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Olartemoure Blog

MAY 24, 2024

The Bottle The bottle’s shape is generally not protected unless it has a novel, original design. However, those distinctive labels are protected under industrial design laws. Amelia Chardonnay 2018 from D.O. Patent Possibilities Wine recipes aren’t patented because they must be completely new and unique.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Back in 2018, that resulted in the European Commission handing down a 4.1-billion-euro 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. billion-euro ($4.3

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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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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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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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