SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

She was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship (2021-2022) and is presently co-teaching third-year students Labor Law and Industrial Relations II. At SpicyIP, we believe that Malobika’s research holds immense potential to drive meaningful change and contribute to evidence-based policymaking in the realm of intellectual property rights.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In this week’s blog, I’ll focus on two pitches and consider what is patentable and the difference between designs and patents. And so in December 2021, he launched an ‘in your pocket music promotions hub’. Zoe told the Dragons that she has applied for a ‘design utility patent’. system, this is basically a registered design.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to the Complaint, on April 8, 2021 and December 22, 2021 the Defendants entered into Franchise Agreement, Non-compete Agreement, Confidentiality Agreement, Non-Disclosure and Operating Agreements, along with a Principal Owner’s Guaranty and Assumption of Obligations Agreement with Honest Abe.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property rights (IPR) in e-commerce are a vital component of e-commerce. Regardless, intellectual property and e-commerce are inseparably linked. Intellectual property regulations and technology security methods are used to provide protection.

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

The PTEE must be designed according to the size, needs, structure and risk profile of the company, driven by a strong ethical culture together with the following hallmarks: A competent Compliance Officer having full oversight over the BTEP. 1 Circular Externa 100-000011 del 9 de agosto 2021. By: Antoine F.

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

2021 USPQ2d 988 (TTAB 2021) [precedential] (Order by M. Modification of the SPO: Under the SPO, which is automatically entered in all inter partes proceedings, only outside counsel have access to confidential material and information that is designated as AEO. Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. Not every frowning cartoon cat infringes; or at least plaintiff has failed to persuade that its intellectual property reaches that far.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Emily Xiang is an IPilogue Writer, the President of the Intellectual Property Society of Osgoode (IPSO), and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . However, fair dealing’s designation as an “exception” inherently produces a negative implication: that copyright law is the “natural order” of things.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

21, 2021, the Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), updated its published guidance regarding sanctions risks associated with making ransomware payments and its official policy on such payments. The updated 2021 guidance retains directives of the 2020 guidance, including coordination with law enforcement.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

2021), the Third Circuit addressed the pleading requirements to assert a claim under Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”). 4:19-CV-00402, 2021 U.S. Tex August 4, 2021)(injunction prohibiting use or disclosure of trade secrets does not break causation regarding defendant’s continuing benefit from the misappropriation). Karya Prop.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 11, 2024

Concerns Over Comments in Brazil In its submission to the USTR’s 2024 Special 301 Review, the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which counts the MPA among its members, raised concerns over the situation in Brazil. The agreement was considered confidential and that ran counter to a requirement for transparency.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 9, 2022

For many trade-secret litigants and their counsel, the solution lies in simply drafting and agreeing to a protective order governing the treatment of any ‘confidential’ material. Among other things, the APO authorized the sealing—in perpetuity—of any documents the parties marked confidential in discovery.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Senate bill demonstrates both the United States’ continued focus on foreign government-sponsored trade secret misappropriation and the International Trade Commission’s (“ITC”) potential untapped ability to swiftly protect intellectual property (“IP”) owners against this illegal conduct under Section 337.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2022

The Eastern District of New York recently highlighted the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of trade secrets where the underlying trade secrets are readily apparent to anyone interacting with the holder’s product. 19CV6793EKRML, 2021 WL 535217, at *1 (E.D.N.Y. 12, 2021), aff’d , No. CargoSprint, LLC , No.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

ABL alleged that Zolezzi misappropriated more than 90 confidential and proprietary files. The files included ABL’s detailed business plans and documents disclosing ABL’s scientific testing results, experimental designs, patent applications, formulations, manufacturing processes, and marketing strategies.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

In particular, ChatGPT is a type of “language” model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted with a text-based question. The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On October 29, 2021, the District of Delaware allowed Park Lawn Corporation to continue with its trade secret claims against fellow cemetery management competitor, PlotBox, Inc., This software helps automate cemetery design plans and expedites managerial tasks. But how often does Ford rush to tell Toyota about its innovations?”

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The IPKat

JULY 13, 2021

In early June, the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law ’s Center for Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy Law organized and hosted its 12th Annual Ethics in the Practice of IP Law virtual seminar. Gene shared two anecdotes concerning the need to keep OED aware of a change of address.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 17, 2022

Roshan is a lawyer and works on trade and intellectual property-related issues in medicine and has previously written for us here. Non-patent legal barriers, including barriers to accessing confidential information (such as dossiers submitted to regulatory authorities) and trade secrets, are not addressed in the proposed solution.

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Corsearch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Brands now face a rising tide of phishing and brand impersonation designed to mislead and defraud consumers. Last year aInterisle Consulting Group’s annual study on the abuse of domains showed that phishing increased by 61% over the period 1 May 2021 through 30 April 2022.[2]

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As the UK government noted in its 2020-2021 IP Crime Report ( pdf ) , “such sites are accepted for disruption,” meaning that for owners of domains on the list, which is integrated into numerous other databases for automated processing, nothing good lies ahead. By extension, the operator of the domain is a suspected criminal.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 12, 2021

Per the Complaint, Jarman, Criblez, and Kolb all signed confidentiality agreements in connection with their Watch employment. In January 2021, Watch claims it discovered the principal office address for GRiT was located at Jarman’s personal residence and that Jarman was holding himself out as a GRiT principal.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In Matthews , the plaintiff, a manufacturer, designer, installer, and servicer of cremation equipment, asserted “claims of trade secret misappropriation [under both federal and state law] and breach of contract against several of its former employees and two of the entities where they are now employed.” Lacayo , 16 F.4th

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IIPRD

JULY 29, 2022

The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2021 had initially proposed the ideal that a select few appellate bodies be dissolved and the powers they hold were to be transferred to pre-existing judicial bodies. The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) was one amongst the few to go through the process of being dissolved.

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Trading Secrets

JULY 31, 2023

SCCs One of the components of the new SCCs that were adopted in 2021 (which did not exist in the prior version of the SCCs) is the requirement for all SCCs to be accompanied by a transfer impact assessment (“TIA”) [1]. 1] Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 Recitals 19 through 21 [2] GDPR, Article 15(4) and Recital 63. [3]

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Privacy Business Law Intellectual Property 52

LexBlog IP

JULY 31, 2023

SCCs One of the components of the new SCCs that were adopted in 2021 (which did not exist in the prior version of the SCCs) is the requirement for all SCCs to be accompanied by a transfer impact assessment (“TIA”) [1]. There is also some interest vis-à-vis the DPF and its interactions with state privacy laws. b, c, e; 14.e,

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Privacy Business Law Intellectual Property 52

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 10, 2021

The email was sent to the patient’s work email address, although she had specifically designated a private email address as her preferred method of contact. July 29, 2021). The group emails were monitored by the employer’s security, privacy, and practices teams, so other employees also may have seen the email.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. 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.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

South Africa and India jointly created the proposal in order to waive several sections of the TRIPS agreement, including the non-enforcement and granting of patents and other IP rights such as copyright and industrial designs pertaining to COVID related medical products or technologies. Image Source:gettyimages].

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

After discovering that some of those newly hired engineers had downloaded Wisk confidential documents before their departure to Archer, Wisk brought claims in the District Court for the Northern District of California under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), 18 U.S.C. § 3:21-CV-02450-WHO, 2021 WL 4073760 (N.D.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro anticipated that, at the conclusion of the feasibility study, Vita would provide a design of the deployment wheel that provided sufficient detail for manufacturing the equipment. Vita’s conceptual design was therefore readily ascertainable by proper means, and every feature was visually observable.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro anticipated that, at the conclusion of the feasibility study, Vita would provide a design of the deployment wheel that provided sufficient detail for manufacturing the equipment. Vita’s conceptual design was therefore readily ascertainable by proper means, and every feature was visually observable.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

In interpreting these provisions, the Commission’s Guidance (COM/2021/288 final) states that information is considered “relevant” if it is at least “accurate about the rights ownership of the particular work or subject matter in question”. This blog post is based on the EPIP2021 roundtable organised in Madrid (September 8-10, 2021).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We discussed the recent updates in Delhi, Madras and Calcutta High Courts, regarding adjudication of intellectual property right matters. Highlighting the change in roster of the Intellectual Property Division (IPD), we also discussed the progress, with regard to similar arrangements, in Calcutta and Madras High Courts.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2024

Calm Water Therapeutics Llc vs The Assistant Controller Of Patents And Designs on 28 February, 2024 (Delhi High Court) The appeal challenged the rejection of a patent application for a “Bi-Functional Co-Polymer” by the Assistant Controller of Patents.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

after they hired engineers from Motorola’s Malaysian office and allegedly took “thousands of [Motorola’s]’ technical, confidential documents,” and then used that information to invent a radio “that is functionally indistinguishable from [Motorola’s] radios.” 1:20-cv-00053 (ALC), 2021 U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 3, 2022

9:20-cv-81501-Matthewman, 2021 U.S. Similarly, with respect to Medterra, the district court noted that HRMG “cannot establish that Medterra used, acquired, or disclosed any of HRMG’s confidential information.” Healthcare Res. Econatura All Healthy World, LLC , No. LEXIS 206871 (S.D. ” Id. FOOTNOTES. [1]

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