The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In 2019, the Copyright Office rejected the application, holding that human authorship is necessary to support a copyright claim. Secondly, the doctrine is about ownership, not existence of a valid copyright. The application stated that the Work had been autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction The Intellectual property laws are designed in such a way that not only reward the creator of his intellectual creation thereby incentivising other creators for further innovation, while balancing the rights of the creator with the right of the society to access information or knowledge. Economics & Law , 14. Atanasova, I.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Board looked to decisions that analyzed the inherent distinctiveness of trade dress used with a variety of services, not just building designs: the “Cuffs and Collars” costume in Chippendales and the monster truck design in Frankish. The Board’s conclusion was “further supported” by the Seabrook test for inherent distinctiveness.

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The IPKat

MARCH 14, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Nkem Itanyi (University of Nigeria) on a recent dispute over copyright ownership of the movie, Shanty Town which premiered on Netflix in January 2023 and discussions over a sequel to the movie. They both signed off as the executive producers of the movie.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 16, 2021

CPL had a registered trademark in the word “Conphamol” and the design of the product packaging. The Court of Appeal however found that there was enough evidence before the court to prove CPL’s ownership of the copyright in the artwork (as it had commissioned and paid for the artwork).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Secondly, the concept of exhaustion has been increasingly marginalised and has decreased in its legal and market impact in relation to digital assets in the EU after the CJEU’s 2019 landmark judgment in Tom Kabinet. Secondly, the NFT transaction can simply be taken off-chain.

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This article is part of our series showcasing well-known copyright ownership cases from the music and film industries, technology, and more. This week’s post looks at three well-known copyright infringement cases involving tech giants battling each other over ownership rights. Apple vs. Microsoft.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 5, 2023

On January 2, 2015, a new system designed to assist copyright holders and better protect consumers went live in Canada. Under common ownership , the same companies have also been suing and obtaining settlements from intermediaries in the U.S.

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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. Defendant had not obtained the Deposit Design from the Copyright Office. 2019 WL 13109708 (S.D. Tierra Caliente Music Group SA v. Serca Discos, Inc.,

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43(B)log

AUGUST 16, 2021

One version of CoStar logo (which is elsewhere usually accompanied by its name) Although CoStar alleged that this identified its ownership of the image, that was a legal conclusion; the logo itself didn’t contain any identifying information about the author of the work as required by § 1202(c). DMI Holdings, CV 18-4837, 2019 U.S.

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The IPKat

JULY 23, 2024

While the move reminded of the copyright dispute over Uganda’s national anthem from 2019, the new anthem titled “Nigeria, We Hail Thee” opened the floor for further concerns. Our Katfriend considered several aspects regarding copyright ownership. Volkswagen sued W+S for infringement of its registered Community design (‘RCD’).

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Larson first commenced legal action at the start of 2019 following a number of attempts by Ms. Dorland will need to show: (1) ownership of a valid copyright, and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original. Dorland originally posted on Facebook.? . On June 10, 2018, Ms. Copyright Office. 19-cv-10203-IT), Ms.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 14, 2023

Two years later in October 2019, Rahi began filing applications at the Intellectual Property Office in Pakistan seeking copyright certificates for a number of songs, and a book in which several songs were written. He alleges that the defendants falsely claimed ownership of his music and had no right to upload his songs to YouTube.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

A three-person board was entrusted with reviewing a 2019 verdict against a man called Steven Thaler, who had applied for the copyright of an art piece titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, created by an AI system he called Creativity Machine. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office. .”

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 29, 2022

A three-person board was entrusted with reviewing a 2019 verdict against a man called Steven Thaler, who had applied for the copyright of an art piece titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, created by an AI system he called Creativity Machine. ” An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office. .”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2019, the U.S. However, in another judgment of 24 December 2019, the Nanshan District Court of Shenzhen awarded copyright to an AI-generated text since it complied with the formal requirement of written work. Lately, IP offices and the judiciary have started to decide on the copyrightability of AI-generated outputs. Secondly, para.

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

March 2019, St. John's approached SW to design a new logo and she invested numerous uncompensated hours into drawing and editing the logo until it was approved by the Board of Directors. John's wrongfully used the copyrighted logo without permission, claiming ownership and profiting from its use without compensating SW.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. Understanding Mask Work. In particular, Section 1213.2

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The IPKat

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Supreme Court is merely considering whether an AI may be formally designated as an inventor on a UK patent. Unsurprisingly, the Examining Division has indicated that the divisional application will be refused for failing to designate an inventor. Sceptical Kat Has DABUS invented?

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Now, by November 2019, all involved nations hope to have a pact finalised and signed. Additionally, it requires Cambodia to maintain online databases with data on applications and registrations for patents, industrial designs, and trademarks. In November 2012, in Cambodia, at the 21st Asean Summit, the RCEP discussions were launched.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 13, 2022

The Board has re-designated as precedential its April 2001 decision dismissing an opposition to registration of the mark SPINTIRES for computer games and software. 91248894 (April 2, 2021) (re-designated as precedential, June 1, 2022). PAVE , 2019 USPQ2d 370880 (TTAB 2019). Saber Interactive Incorporated v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

In the EU, these activities are mostly regulated by two text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive , which cover TDM for scientific purposes (Article 3) and what is sometimes called “commercial” TDM (Article 4).

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Hilti claimed that it didn’t design the label, but that defendant RectorSeal did the final design. In 2019, RectorSeal requested that Hilti’s Firestop Box Insert be added back. Hilti and RectorSeal no doubt designed the label to entice customers into purchasing the product.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 23, 2024

In 2019, Vetter served a termination notice on Windsong and its successors in interest under Section 304(c) of the 1976 Copyright Act, terminating the 1963 assignment and recapturing the rights he and Smith had previously assigned, effective in 2022. grant of rights does not affect the ownership of rights granted for use in other countries.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

[Delhi High Court] On May 23, the Delhi High Court passed an interesting jud gement on the issue of ownership of the copyright in a film screenplay and held that the copyright in the screenplay of the film ‘Nayak’, lay with Satyajit Ray and on his demise, with his son Sandip Ray and the Society for Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives (SPSRA).

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IIPRD

AUGUST 31, 2022

Joint ownership of Intellectual property. Joint ownership by the company and the customer/consultant/contractor involved, joint ownership has the potential to create business and enforcement challenges. Every now and again, significant IP gets left out of a sale by accident or design. Pitfalls to Check. Missing IP.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The similarities in the marks and the goods, "Opposer’s history of renaming and restructuring itself, combined with Opposer’s prior ownership of Applicant’s brass division, industry norms concerning legal entity changes," outweighed any purchaser sophistication. KME Germany GmbH v. Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Seems like a nonsequitur to me - ed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Now here he claims this infringed his copyright, when in fact this is merely a retaliatory claim due to my filing a DMCA claim based on his appropriation of my design and copyright computer code expressions on multiple occasions without written or verbal permission. In 2019, he had a simple website that included a “Where We Work” page.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The EcoDesign Directive’s 2019 Implementing Regulations obligate manufacturers of certain products to provide access to repair information, but these obligations are limited to professional repairers and they permit manufacturers to charge fees and create other restrictions in providing access. by Alexander Puutio. € by Edward J.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Early in 2019, the Nepali government proposed a comprehensive IT Bill to replace the current Electronic Transaction Act. And a public proof of ownership for the NFT can be provided via blockchain technology. NFTs are viewed as the future of ownership by enthusiasts. If the buzz fades, losses may accumulate.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In relation to objects subject to ownership, like tangible items, such an entitlement to revindicate ( rei vindicatio ) is commonly guaranteed as one of the prerogatives of the owner. By contrast, digital data are, as such, not undisputedly considered to be subjectable to ownership rights. Portability as a Consumer Contract Remedy.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Controller of Patents & Designs , rejected a patent application for a lamp based on Panchagavya (cow milk, cow ghee, cow butter, cow curd, cow dung and cow urine) citing that it was barred by Section 3(p) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 (“the Act”) for being traditional knowledge (“TK”).

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Dear Rich IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Instead, vendors had operated laissez-faire , selling a wide range of goods until December 2019, when a Florida company acquired the exclusive right to use the Louise Brooks trademark on over 40 types of merchandise (listed below). The story behind the trademark. 15 USC Sec. What to do?

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43(B)log

AUGUST 19, 2021

Their agreements terminated in late 2019. According to CasperLabs, Zamfir was well-aware of its intent to use the Casper name as early as June 2019. Without assessing whether Zamfir owned any valid interest, reasoning that ownership of a valid mark is not a requirement under §43(a), the court jumped straight to the Sleekcraft factors.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

In this post , Adyasha analyses the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021 (‘Bill’) which seeks ‘ to tackle the menace of film piracy ’, and is a revision of the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2019. In a piece for Live Law, Eashan Ghosh critically analyses Section 22(4) of the Indian Designs Act, 2004. Other News from Around the World.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Appeal 2019-004127 (Decided August 19, 2020) . The application recognizes disadvantages of blockchain transactions such as long processing time, payee’s inability to identify payor, and sole reliance on electronic credentials to establish ownership to digital currencies. Decision: 35 U.S.C. § 101 rejection of claims 1-16 reversed.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

One of the most recent examples is the dispute (not yet decided) around the use of the images of the Birth of Venus by Michelangelo in fashion design; the others are the controversy over the use in the advertising of the image of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo [2] and the multiple claims against the use in the marketing of David by Donatello. [3]

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