IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After the release of “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” in 2018, Netflix was sued by Chooseco , a children’s book publisher known for their ‘game books’ titled Choose Your Own Adventure. All that said, a trademark does not necessarily have to be displayed visually to trigger a trademark infringement lawsuit.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 19, 2025

Rahul Dhawan, her lawyer, argued that the disputed clip was part of Nayanthara’s ‘Personal Liberty’ as it was shot on her device and was already circulating in the public domain. Evergreen Publications (India) Ltd., 2018 SCC OnLine Del 13480 [7] R.G

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

My understanding is that all publicity photos taken back in the 1920s and 1930s were never copyrighted, therefore, in the public domain, especially if the photographer is unidentified. A company from Coral Gables, Florida applied for the Louise Brooks trademark in 2018. The public domain. What to do?

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Intepat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Copyright Office’s guidelines, but a settlement was reached in 2018. Furthermore, these AI tools have implemented strict conditions that the images are not the user’s property, thus no intellectual property rights may be asserted, and the images remain in the public domain, thus eliminating the possibility of copyright protection.

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IPilogue

JULY 20, 2022

In 2018 , the Cancellation Division of the EUIPO revoked Apple’s rights in its “ Think Different” marks, a decision that was upheld by the Board of Appeal in November 2020. The decision effectively makes the mark “Think Different” fall in the public domain and is closely preceded by chatter about Apple’s unethical trademark practices.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 16, 2023

In 2018, a TTAB panel dismissed UTH’s motion to dismiss Curtin’s opposition for lack of standing. This TTAB panel, consisting of different judges from the 2018 panel, reversed course and dismissed the opposition, holding that an opposer’s “real interest” must be commercial in nature. 28, 2018). [2]

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In 2018, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling in a trademark case involving medical supplies produced by the Sony Corporation. The statue in the picture in the lower middle is the work of József Somogy and the picture is by Burrows, who has put it into the public domain. International license.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 20, 2023

AI can explore data or information that is accessible in public domain or copyright of other person and can investigate or work upon that information but only to that extent which the software program permits. [3] Therefore, AI may not equipped for generating an original work. Hence, ownership is not granted to the AI.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

Forming Exclusive Rights A sui generis intellectual property system based on AI-generated works might provide some degree of protection and also be a bridge to the public domain. For instance, authorship would be ascribed to whoever conceived the inputs or the AI that generated the output. References U.S. Slater, 888 F.3d

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Universal Public Domain Dedication. 5620 of 30/07/2021 and which concerned a contract for cleaning services), well represents the current trend of Italian administrative courts in relation to trade secrets. Picture on the top middle is bysudheerinfo99 and is licensed under a CCO license.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 5, 2023

holding that the character of Zorro had fallen in the public domain. Zorro Productions claimed that it owned copyright and several trade marks over the character of Zorro and that the advertisement inter alia infringed its rights under both regimes. The Supreme Court thus sent the case back to the Court of Appeal for a new assessment.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Man’s ideas are both public and private in their essence. The owners’ and people’s ideas and works are generated with uniqueness and creativity, and they are released into the public domain.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 21, 2021

xxi] Therefore, the Court held that this placed the annotations in the public domain, and thus not eligible for copyright protection. These lower court decisions help illustrate how the Supreme Court should protect the public in these kinds of situations. 105(a) (2018). [vi] xxix] For example, in Veeck v Southern Bldg.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

From July 2017 to April 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario (the “AGO”) staged an exhibition titled “ ReBlink ,” which urged visitors to “[t]ake a second look… with a modern lens:”. addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

IP Financing in India – Part II: The Supreme Court and (mis)interpretation of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 Part II of the two-part guest post by Bharat Harne on IP Financing in India focuses on the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Canara Bank v N.G. Regarding the objection of the defendants that the documents related to Defendant No.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2018, Johannsongs-Publishing filed a copyright infringement claim against the defendants who were involved in publishing and/or selling You Raise Me Up. They further claimed that any similarities that did exist were derivative of Irish folk songs such as Danny Boy (aka Londonderry Air ), which was in the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

By regulating access to training data through the imposition of costs or other use conditions, property rights may create unanticipated incentives that drive AI developers towards “more available”, “cheaper”, “less risky” or as it has been called “low friction” data ( Levendowski 2018 ), which incidentally are more easily found outside the EU.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The Board disagreed, observing that "[c]onsumers, like competitors, may have a real interest in keeping merely descriptive or generic words in the public domain." 91241083 (December 28, 2018) [not precedential]. Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. Opposition No.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Nowhere in this so-called balance was any mention made of the public side of the copyright balance—the public’s interest in the creation and dissemination of works, for example, or users’ rights to make fair and lawful uses of protected works, or the importance of the public domain (in which facts and information—i.e.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. 2018), where the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a fair use defense in a case of allegedly transformative compiling of recorded broadcasts into text searchable databases that allowed search and viewing of short excerpts. Goldsmith, 598 U.S.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

On 23 October 2018, the Applicant, Baidu Europe B.V., Unported license Picture on left is from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907)and is in the public domain. Facts Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., The register proprietor owns the trade mark " ", registered in Singapore in Classes 38 and 42.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Under this heightened standard, it seems likely that the output of the investments in creating care pathways, and other similarly situated stakeholders, would be considered by the Copyright Office to be public domain. 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. Rearden LLC v. Walt Disney Co. , 3d 963, 968 (N.D. Unigate Enter. ,

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

Other Posts World of Possibilities: Single Judge Bench of Delhi High Court Allows Use of Celebrity Information Available in Public Domain Delhi High Court specifies some contours of publicity rights in India! Deadline for the Applications: 11:59pm IST, 23rd June, 2023. It alleged that respondent No.

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Patently-O

MAY 20, 2024

Thus, where an inventor holds two patents claiming obvious variants of the same invention, ODP can invalidate the later-expiring patent, because upon expiration of the first patent, the invention should enter the public domain. The Federal Circuit’s disparate treatment of PTA versus Patent Term Extension (PTE) under 35 U.S.C. §

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Nestle’s contention on the grounds of how can one company be owner or have exclusive rights over a colour that exists in the public domain and are not created by the intellectuals of the said owner. The mark should be ruled out from the registration because it does not contain a distinctive character.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

However, the High Court did direct the Trial Court to decide the original suit, filed in 2018, in an expeditious manner, preferably within 6 months from the date of the present order. On basis of the above, the Defendant argued that the interim injunction deserves to be vacated.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 13, 2022

A German professor of music theory received Content ID Claims for recordings in the public domain uploaded by his YouTube channels.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

Under this heightened standard, it seems likely that the output of the investments in creating care pathways, and other similarly situated stakeholders, would be considered by the Copyright Office to be public domain. 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. ’” Rearden LLC v. Walt Disney Co. , 3d 963, 968 (N.D.

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

Meade J held that, per Unwired Planet International Ltd & Anor v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd & Anor [2018] EWCA Civ 2344, where there may be more than one set of FRAND terms set, a SEP owner can choose which terms to offer between those determined by rival courts, provided that the terms are FRAND. Desserts 10.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2018, Johannsongs-Publishing filed a copyright infringement claim against the defendants who were involved in publishing and/or selling You Raise Me Up. They further claimed that any similarities that did exist were derivative of Irish folk songs such as Danny Boy (aka Londonderry Air ), which was in the public domain.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Later, in 1914, Copyright Act was amended which was highly influenced with the Copyright Act, 1911 of Britain, such as both the legislation shared resemblance in the duration of copyright protection, focused on the protection of literary works, and had similar provisions regarding the concept of public domain and exceptions.

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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. Night of the Living Dead is possibly one of the most famous public domain movies of all time. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie : The second in the Creepy Copyright Mondays series was an explainer on how Night of the Living Dead , one of the most iconic zombie films, fell into the public domain. It’s an interesting look at how a public domain source and a modern interpretation can clash.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 18, 2025

In 2018, researcher Eduardo Cruz published a method for backing up and restoring (‘de-suiciding’) Hitachi FD1094 modules. Conclusion In the context of game preservation, the researchers conclude that TPMs inhibit several positive effects, including the denial of benefits to society when games enter the public domain.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents. Before November 19, 2018, the previous takedown notices to Amazon didn’t violate 512(f) because the successor licensee didn’t have the requisite bad intent.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2022

My previous posts in the series examined the incredible array of authors and political figures that helped shape Canada for decades who will have their works locked out of the public domain. Yet consider the comments of Bryan Adams, one of Canada’s best known artists.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

2018 Bench strength 5 Laws- Article 14, Article 15, Article 19, and Article 21 of the Constitution Navtej Singh Johar v. Aug 1: SC states there must be “ overarching ” guidelines to protect an individual’s private information in the public domain. 2018, November 6). vs. Union of India.

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