SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2022

The Finished Article: Essays on Indian Designs Law. I am delighted to take this opportunity to share with the SpicyIP community the release of my book, The Finished Article: Essays on Indian Designs Law (Thomson Reuters, 2022, ISBN-13: 978-9393702173). Eashan Ghosh. Both have historically been the site of some confusion.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to the third trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! On 8 September 2022, the CJEU issued its judgment in RTL Television. On 22 September 2022, the AG Szpunar issued his opinion in the AKM case on the interpretation of communication to the public by a satellite. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.

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The IPKat

JULY 22, 2022

On 21 July 2022, Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved the convening of diplomatic conferences on designs and genetic resources, no later than 2024. Credit: “Delegates at the Opening of the WIPO Assemblies 2022” by Emmanuel Berrod is available via WIPO | OMPI on Flickr. Copyright: WIPO.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The Native American Law & Policy practice group at Dentons US LLP brings you the latest on federal policies, legal news, and events in the Indigenous art and fashion world. By: Dentons

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 16, 2024

However, proving that the design is distinctive enough to be protected and does not serve a functional purpose remains problematic. This protection allows the brand to safeguard its visual identity, as well as stop other businesses from using their designs’ look and feel, maintaining exclusivity and value of designs.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of several design patents, interest in design patents grew exponentially.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We’re pleased to inform you that Centre for Intellectual Property Studies, National Law University, Jodhpur is is inviting submissions from law students for the ‘NLUJ CIPS Inter College IP Research Essay Writing Competition, 2022’ on the theme ‘“IP and Youth: Innovating for a better future’. Third Prize: Rs.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With a great sense of pride, we announce that the Indian Navy has introduced a new design for a mask to be used in their course of action. This particular mask design falls under class 29-02 which covers devices and equipment against fire hazards, accidents and rescues. The design number is 360313-00.

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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. .'” 2022 WL 16555584 (S.D.N.Y. Grande Communications Networks LLC (November 3, 2022). 2022 WL 17430309 (9th Cir.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

While PTE is designed to effectively extend the overall patent term for a single invention due to regulatory delays in product approval, PTA is designed to extend the term of a particular patent due to delays in the processing of that patent.

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2025

Birkenstock has tried to protect and enforce its iconic sandal design using almost all intellectual property rights available. Their trade marks for the sole pattern design were cancelled because they lacked distinctiveness (General Court, case T-365/20 and T-579/14 ). R1002/2023-3 and R2499/2022-3 ) or, for older models, expired.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

on 2 November, 2022 (Delhi High Court) . However, the patent on Apaxiban expired in September 2022 and via the present order, the court ruled that “ there can be no injunction on the manufactured stock lying with the Defendants, from being sold as on date. ”. vs Dr. Tajinder Bhatti on 2 November, 2022 (Delhi High Court) .

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, recently selected it as the 2022 "word of the year". How true this is can be seen in that, in 2022, there was an increase of 1740% in "lookups" (presumably on the dictionary's website). If you used the word "gaslighting" recently, you are not alone. The list goes on, all variations of a theme.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

One of the more public steps is designing their first one Euro coin. To that end, the Croatian central bank held a design competition. On Friday, it announced the winner, designer Stjepan Pranjkovic. Bar se nadam da je kupljeno sa nekog stocka :( pic.twitter.com/KpSiJFu9v2 — Marko (@mlinka) February 4, 2022.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

GitHub Transparency Report 2022 In 2022, GitHub received and processed 2,321 valid DMCA notices, an increase of almost 27% over the 1,828 notices reported for 2021. “[W]e received and processed 36 valid counter notices, one reversal, and seven retractions, for a total of 44 notices that resulted in content being restored in 2022.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 13, 2024

Fujikura”) is one of the most prominent golf club shaft designers and manufacturers. Per Fujikura, in the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season, half of all PGA tournaments were won by a player using a Fujikura shaft. Plaintiff Fujikura Composite America, Inc. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

1: US Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act of 2022. Dubbed the Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022, the act aims to encourage the use of “standard technical measures” by creating a system that the U.S. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, no action was taken after the first pop-up and, in February 2022, JMC began promoting a second event, starting with a series of Facebook posts. That second event was held May 20 – June 5, 2022, in Virginia and featured many of the same issues as the first one. However, it could still be an indicator of what is to come.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

On January 1, 2022, works that were first published in the year 1926 lapsed into the public domain. It uses the art style and the meter of the original work, as well as the designs of characters from that book. However, the name that’s received the lion’s share of the attention has been A.A.

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SpicyIP

JULY 18, 2024

Controller of Patents and Designs , came down heavily on the IPO for its shoddy order rejecting the patent application filed by the appellant. The Madras High Court, vide judgement dated 3 July 2024 in University of Ulm v. The judgment raises serious concerns regarding the quality of functioning of the patent office.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The lawsuit claims that since 2022, Keighin has streamed ‘unauthorized gameplay’ from at least ten leaked Nintendo games before their official release, and more than fifty times in total. Nintendo seeks $2,500 for each instance of trafficking. Nintendo seeks $2,500 for each instance of trafficking.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Geneva Act, hereinafter referred to as the Hague Agreement) came into force in China on 5 May 2022. This offers a new way to obtain design patent protection in China. By: Linda Liu & Partners

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IPilogue

JULY 20, 2022

Alexandra Mogyoros , Assistant Professor at Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University, is also joining the ranks as a book review editor.? The IPJ is Canada’s leading peer-reviewed journal with a focus on IP law related areas such as patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, trade secrets and competitive torts.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Dykeman expressed concerns about how much of the development of AI for health is under the research designation, and the challenges that that may introduce down the road. From the audience, Prof. David Vaver put forth concerns about IP ownership.

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Garrigues Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

When tech giants turned to virtual worlds in 2021, haute couture designers did not hesitate to design digital clothing for avatars and open stores on these platforms. Thanks to their transparency and immutability, NFTs protect both designers and consumers from fakes. Other firms in the industry were soon to follow.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

It’s a small operation, with a 2022 budget of under $1M/year. An obvious question: why did the plaintiff choose federal court over the CCB when the CCB was designed precisely for the facts of this case? The defendant, Kalita Mukul Creative, ran community-focused newsletters. Case Citation : McDermott v. Kalita Mukul Creative Inc.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Himachal Pradesh High Court seems to be the latest addition to the list of Courts with a separate IPR Division, as it has notified its Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2022. His previous posts can be accessed here. ] Turns out that the Rules have been out for a while now and were notified on July 8, 2024.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we discussed earlier this week , artificial intelligence was by far the biggest and most important plagiarism story of 2022 and likely will be in 2023. That has been further compounded by the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. The issue is simple. Advantages: . Already baked into current assessment systems.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 21, 2022

Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022 , better known as the SMART Copyright Act. From there, the technical measure will become a designated technical measure (DTM). On Friday, U.S.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

On January 6, 2022, the U.S. Plant applications and design applications are excluded as they are not governed by the SME requirements. The DSMER Program is set to run from February 1, 2022 to July 30, 2022. Introduction. We provide a brief overview of this program. Duration of the DSMER Program. Discussions.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 19, 2022

After obtaining hundreds of millions in taxpayer support with programs such as the Local Journalism Initiative (made permanent in Budget 2022), the Journalism Labour Tax Credit, and the Digital Subscription Tax Credit, the organization set its sights on the Internet platforms. Designated Public Office Holders. 2022-04-14.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

House of Representatives passed a major piece of legislation known as the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Pre-Eminence in Technology, and Economic Strength (COMPETES) Act of 2022, which is the House’s counterpart to the U.S. Senate’s United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2022

After a year and a half of rule making and infrastructure building, the CCB opened its doors in June 2022. The system is designed to be navigable by non-lawyers and, instead of a judge and/or jury, the case is heard by a panel of three officers and the entire process is held online. Before 2002 7 2002-2020 42 2020/2021 19 2022 15.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 23, 2022

Readers can vote for books in five categories: Patents, Copyright, Trade Mark, Design and general Intellectual Property. Voting will close at midnight on 31st January 2022 , and winners will be announced thereafter. Please provide the editor/author's name and title of the book in your votes. Good luck!

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

By March 2022, four prosecutions had led to criminal convictions. – Man, 43: 3 months in prison (conditional) plus community service ( February 2022 ). – Man, 54: 3 months in prison (conditional) plus community service (March 2022). ” NSK was established on 1 January 2022. Fifth Criminal Conviction.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

The matter remained on the ECs agenda, spurring the launch of the EU Horizon Project Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) in 2022. Metadata design technical challenges Missing or incorrect metadata in a dataset could be overcome, or at least mitigated, by interoperability between datasets. What does the law have to offer?

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