IPilogue

AUGUST 5, 2022

IP, design, development, and engineering are cornerstones of this sport, with teams having to design, build, and race their cars. With large sums of prize money at stake and teams’ inability to patent the designs on which they spend millions in innovation , F1 is in a difficult position. New Name, Same Concerns?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 27, 2021

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published its World Intellectual Property Indicators Report 2020 , which contains valuable information on changes in intellectual property indicators and trends worldwide, from 2018 to 2019, as we discussed in this post. Industrial designs. Trademarks.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

How does an influencer and fashion designer become so despised? However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying. Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 30, 2024

This Kat has found a recent decision issued by the Paris Court of Appeal in a dispute over the allegedly unlawful reproduction of a t-shirt design. This ruling was an opportunity for the court to reiterate that a garment can be protected by copyright and design law. Consequently, no copyright infringement could be found.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 26, 2021

5, 2021) The plaintiff benefits from very generous treatment of its false designation and copyright claims, in the process stripping false designation of anything other than a prohibition on copying/vitiating both Wal-Mart and Dastar. 2021 WL 1253803, No. 20-cv-06957-VKD (N.D. The court agreed!

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The biosimilar pathway was designed to increase competition for biologics and reduce healthcare costs. Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

On December 2020, Congress passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act or the CASE Act. This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship. 1: The Copyright Small Claims Court.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

9, 2020), Phillip Morris petitioned for post-grant review of the ’542 Patent. The disparagement in the specification from which the claim was copied showed that the copied claims were drawn to a different invention than what was disclosed in the written description of the patent at issue in Baird. 1:20-cv-393 (E.D. filed Apr.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest stream-rippers took matters into his own hands. “Neither YouTube nor the Defendants employ any form of Digital Rights Management or encryption, the inclusion of which would eliminate the ability of the Yout software to allow Yout’s users to make copies of the works.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest YouTube rippers took the unprecedented step of taking the music industry to court. One of the key issues in this dispute is whether YouTube actually implemented technological measures designed to control access to copyrighted works.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

11413/2024) in a case concerning the protection by copyright of a lamp design. Part II will now turn to the compatibility of the approach adopted by the Italian courts to the cumulation of design and copyright protection for works of industrial design and applied art (WAA) with the existing case law of the CJEU in the area.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Microsoft’s problem is that product activation keys can be ‘decoupled’ from the software they were meant to authorize and then reused to activate more copies of the software, in some cases more copies than the attached Microsoft license permits. Microsoft’s complaint can be found here (pdf).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2020, the RIAA attempted to have YouTube-ripping tool youtube-dl removed from Github and in the wake of that, YouTube-ripping service Yout filed a preemptive lawsuit against the RIAA. Similarly, the ‘rolling cipher’ mechanism that the RIAA argues is employed by YouTube does not prevent copying of videos or other digital media.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In a summer 2020 lawsuit , Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child, accused several pirate eBook sites of infringing their copyrights. The court also ordered assets to be restrained. Early on it became clear the case was unlikely to be straightforward. .”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

LLaMA is a large language model in the form of an AI software program designed to emit convincingly naturalistic text outputs in response to user prompts. Rather than being programmed in the traditional way, a large language model is “trained” by copying massive amounts of text and extracting information from it.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 5, 2023

Stream-ripping platform Yout took the initiative in 2020 by suing the RIAA, hoping that the court would declare its service non-infringing. The RIAA’s position couldn’t be more clear but the system actually belongs to YouTube; did the company design the mechanism to limit copying?

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Both Rights Alliance and Teleindustrien (Telecommunications Industry Association in Denmark) have published copies of the new Code of Conduct but neither explain how the new system will work. In 2017, Danish ISPs were blocking around 100 pirate sites , a figure that jumped to 478 in 2020. How Will The System Work?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2021

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies headed up by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. channels, which are only possible to offer after content is copied and stored, contrary to copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2020, complaints from the Federation of Newspaper Publishers (FIEG) over the illegal distribution of newspapers, periodicals, and books, led to an emergency order requiring Telegram to shut down 19 channels or face blocking itself. In early 2020, ODG filed a complaint at the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Milan.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2023

In 2020, the creator of Le Monde newspaper’s font, together with the company he founded, brought a copyright infringement case against Google and the company that created the ‘Spectral’ font. But the court ruled that the font had not been copied Article L.122-4 and some bottom serifs like a, d etc.)

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 19, 2024

But unlike those cases, this one was first filed way back in 2020, before generative AI was poised to change the world (and also before it was spitting out fake cat videos and telling us to put glue on pizza ). Thomson Reuters contends that Ross’s tool was designed to compete directly with Westlaw, targeting the same legal market.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2022

At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest stream-rippers took matters into his own hands. While YouTube’s protection is relatively easy to circumvent, Yout is designed to make this bypass process even easier. These services are a thorn in the side of music industry outfits, who see them as a major piracy threat.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

Put in common parlance, if the general public primarily understands the word to designate the product rather than the producer , the word is generic. There is a two-part test used to determine whether a designation is generic: (1) What is the class of goods or services at issue?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In 2020, YouTube ripper Yout.com sued the RIAA , asking a Connecticut district court to declare that the site does not violate the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. “Video creators, educators, journalists, and human rights organizations all depend on the ability to make copies of user-uploaded videos,” EFF adds.

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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. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D. Signal 23 Television v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

At the end of 2020, the operator of one of the largest YouTube rippers took the unprecedented step of taking the music industry to court. “I think one thing that would be developed on a fuller record, Your Honor, is what precisely is the technological measure employed by YouTube and does it, is it designed to prevent access?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By treating streaming as a felony, not a mere misdemeanor, the ‘ Protecting Lawful Streaming Act 2020 ‘ would help rightsholders tackle IPTV operations similar to Carrasquillo’s. Yes, Omi says, but that made him think about a situation he faced too, when people copied his own products.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2022

After a relatively busy 2020 in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated over a dozen opinions as either precedential or informative, the PTAB did not designate a single opinion as precedential or informative during the 2021 calendar year. PDF copy available.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

Aparajita discusses the key arguments made by Pfizer/ BioNTech in her piece and raises question on enforceability of Moderna’s patents in light of its 2020 patent pledge. The Defendant argued that the suit design was published prior to the date of registration under a different trade name. Case: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba vs Asstt.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2024

A Mountain to Climb The world-famous news publications mentioned above have faced considerable challenges with the transition to digital, including unauthorized digital copies of their products being made available online by pirate sites. trillion yen (estimated as of February 2022) • 2022 – ~506.9

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. When sales are replaced by pirated copies, authors earn a lot less. Whois Privacy Corp., and NameCheap, Inc.,

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

Interestingly enough, there was no need to discuss if Morford’s work would be protectable at the outset also because the plaintiff had managed to register his work with the US Copyright Office in 2020. The notion of ‘substantial taking’ should not be intended in a quantitative sense.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2023

The most popular of all customs is a play used by kids called “trick or treat” kids visit neighbour houses dressed in Halloween-themed costumes, which are designed to give a scary feeling, and ask them to give sweets by the phrase “trick or treat” if the owners of the house fail to give sweets, kids play a trick.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

MAY 4, 2022

Fish Principals Craig Deutsch , Jennifer Huang , and Grace Kim , discuss challenging design patents at the PTAB in their Law360 Expert Analysis article. PDF copy available. As an initial matter, design patent trials at the PTAB are relatively rare. The numbers can partly be explained by the nature of design patents.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In its submission, beIN provides an overview of how the pirate IPTV ecosystem works, from the pirates who capture the first copies of live TV, movies and TV shows to an underlying infrastructure including re-streamers, resellers, and device distributors. One pirate IPTV provider in particular appears to be a major concern.

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