IP Law 360

JANUARY 2, 2023

The continuing fallout from a decision that changed how patent cases are assigned to Western District of Texas judges, and a Delaware judge's investigation into the funding and ownership of patent plaintiffs are set to continue commanding the patent world's attention in 2023.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. We have also included a list of other notable IP developments of 2023. The judgement was passed in October 2022, but was uploaded in September 2023 on the High Court’s website. A special thanks to Mr. G.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 31, 2023

On May 16, 2023, the Federal Circuit denied a petition for a writ of mandamus to direct the Board to vacate an institution decision based on stock ownership of an administrative patent judges (“APJ”) in In re Centripetal Networks, LLC, No. 2023-127, 2023 U.S. May 16, 2023). LEXIS 11895 (Fed. By: Jones Day

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Board issued 34 precedential opinions in calendar 2023, a total slightly lower than in recent years. 3: Rejecting Motion to Expand Identification of Goods, TTAB Sustains EN-D-FENDER Opposition for Nonuse Ownership: Precedential No. Welch 2023. link here ). Good luck with that.]

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The case did not address either of the more interesting questions of: a) whether the AI could be said to have actually invented anything, and b) how ownership of AI generated technologies should be determined. 25 sequence listing added to the pages of a divisional has now been issued ( OJ EPO 2023, A98 ). Looking beyond ST.26:

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This Africa IP Highlights 2023 is the result of collaboration between myself and several IP practitioners and researchers across Africa: Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2022, here. Today, we begin with developments in the copyright field.

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Cogency Global

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

What this is: On August 2, 2023, there were updates to the Economic Crime and Transparency Act and the Register of Overseas Entities ( RoE ) from the UK Companies House. What this means: New guidelines have been posted for the annual updating requirements for Overseas Entities.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

Note: The responses below were received in 2023. TorGuard’s originality and commitment to its core values are preserved as it continues to operate under its initial ownership – VPNetworks LLC and Data Protection Services. Port forwarding is allowed (update May 2023, it is now disabled ). OVPN Integritet AB (Org no.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

The TTABlogger has once again chosen the ten (10) TTAB (Tee-Tee-Ā-Bee) decisions that he considers to be the most important and/or interesting from the previous calendar year (2023). In re Seminole Tribe of Florida , 2023 U.S.P.Q.2d 2d 631 (TTAB 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Melanye K. 2023 U.S.P.Q.2d

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TorrentFreak

MAY 13, 2023

The same is broadly true for blocking action in Australia while a more recent blocking injunction in India targets 18 sets of domains, with each set consisting of often multiple domains linked to the same platform or perceived ownership.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2025

According to the report , the site was one of the main beneficiaries of RARBG’s shutdown in 2023. This change of ownership offered an explanation for the earlier ‘ maintenance ‘ issues, but the site’s troubles didn’t end there.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Our pilot empirical work in January-March 2023 mapped ToS across a representative sample of 13 generative AI providers, drawn from across the globe and including small providers as well as the large globally well-known firms such as Google and OpenAI. Is it a proper copyright ownership or an assigned license? user, service)?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2024

There’s also a growing trend of sites with common ownership operating from dozens of confusingly-similar domains by design. Similar behavior can be seen across dozens of similar domains, although not always under common ownership or even in direct response to enforcement measures. Now redirecting to ACE, kooora4.us Kooralive.io

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Spice DAO has announced that it is implementing a three-stage “redemption phase” that will see it attempt to pay back its members as much as possible and, likely, attempt to sell the book in the fourth quarter of 2023. The goal there is to attempt to capitalize on the release of Dune: Part 2. One potential use is Safe Creative’s.

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Intepat

MAY 17, 2024

Copyright Office issued a policy statement on March 16, 2023, in response to cases like “Zarya of the Dawn,” to clarify its stance on registering works that include AI-generated material. Also, contracts should include intellectual property clauses that address the ownership and usage rights of the prompts.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Based on the assertion that the assignment agreements relied upon by the publishers do not confer ownership of copyrights relating to the allegedly infringed works, Elbakyan declared them void. The next hearing is scheduled for July 2023. In the meantime, Sci-Hub has received some unexpected news. After suspending Sci-Hub’s.SE

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JD Supra Law

MAY 9, 2023

Hormel Foods Corporation (May 5, 2023), Judges Lourie, Clevenger and Taranto of the U.S. In HIP, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 30, 2024

In addition, concerns have been raised regarding the authenticity and possession of the artwork, the involvement of the artist, and the authorship and ownership of its copyright in relation to the integration of artificial intelligence into the artistic process. The position will subsequently be examined in light of Indian law on the blog.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2025

10] [Image Sources: Shutterstock] The right to publicity (personality rights) may also be construed as a property right, when commercial value is derived from an individual’s persona, and its ownership parallels that of tangible property. 11] WHY THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION BEST BE DEALT WITH CODIFICATION OF PERSONALITY RIGHTS?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

On April 21, 2023, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro N. Additionally, on January 23, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) released the first version of its “ Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework ” (“AI RMF 1.0”). Patents On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Both the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2023

On February 21, 2023, Twitter chief Elon Musk published a tweet suggesting that Twitter’s algorithm would be “ made open source ” before the end of that month. 512(c)(3)(A) ,” Moore’s declaration reads.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 30, 2023

11: TTAB Reverses Six "Goods In Trade" Refusals for NY Times Non-Syndicated Column Titles Ownership: Precedential No. 13: TTAB Allows Cancellation Respondent to Correct Registration Ownership Specimen of Use/Nonuse/Illegal Use: Precedential No. Welch 2023. Guess What? Goods in Trade: Precedential No.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 24, 2023

Thaler’s petition for writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court would have been due last week, but Thaler was able to obtain an extension with the petition now being due March 19, 2023. Jan 10, 2023). Thaler’s main attorney throughout this process has been Professor Ryan Abbott. PERLMUTTER et al, Docket No.

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CoCal IP Law Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Please join us on Monday, November 13, 2023 at Noon, where we will discuss the issue of master ownership and the legal copyright conflicts between record labels and artists. Taylor Swift may be the first to make this copyright issue truly public, leaving fans wondering who really owns Swift's music and why. She says she [.]

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The TTABlog

APRIL 24, 2023

92078878 (April 21, 2023) [precedential]. He further averred that he and his cousin (of the same name) started the business in about November 2019, that it has continued to the present under the same ownership, and that no other entity has owned or used the FAT BEAR mark. Welch 2023. Phat Scooters, Inc. Text Copyright John L.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ning Zhang , Copyright Infringement on YouTube- Understanding Consequences and Best Practices , (29 TH 2023). Susmita Dhar & Anshu Kumari Singh, Copyright Violation in Social Media Culture- A Legal Study in Indian Scenario , NLUA Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Volume 2 Issue 2. 1 (2022). [5] 7] Super Cassettes Industries Ltd.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 1, 2025

Kevin Bercimuelle-Chamot joined the IPKat as an InternKat at the start of 2023 and then continued as a GuestKat. The Court also dismissed Wright's claims of passing off, which was based on his assertion of ownership of goodwill in the name "Bitcoin". Thank you and all the best, Anna Maria!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A related question then arises as to who would be able to claim ownership of such a work: the person who provided the input prompt, or perhaps the AI tool itself? Between 25 August 2023 and 13 November 2023, 119 responses were received from 134 universities contacted.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

The article was rejected for copyright protection in 2023, and the argument was that the absence of human authorship disqualified the work from the right. For example, in many Bollywood films, visual effects and script writing contain AI which brings up the issues of ownership and copyright protection. Copyright Office, 2023.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 27, 2023

” I sense the court was overwhelmed by the complexity of music licensing, where there are layers upon layers of agreements over the initial ownership of the work, subsequent ownership transfers, distribution licenses, designations of enforcement agents, and voluntary uploads of the works by one or more people in the chain.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

So as of early 2023, what effect have those orders had on patent filings? In January 2023, a total of 242 district court patent cases were filed nationwide, with 36 cases filed in WDTX ( representing a mere 14.9% Judge Albright was only assigned to 19 cases in January 2023. of total cases ). of the 269 total patent cases.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 20, 2025

100/2023, 22nd November 2024 ) and concerning the renowned Italian football club Juventus, one of its official resellers (i.e., the individual company Pegaso), and the Portuguese company Mussara. The Court of First Instance awarded damages for over EUR 100,000 (most of them by way of recovery of the profits made by Pegaso).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Maritas, 2023 WL 2726030 (E.D. March 30, 2023) * * * BONUS 1: Edelmania Productions, LLC v. Jordan Service, 2023 WL 424238 (C.D. Construing these allegations as true and in Service’s favor, Service subjectively believed that he possessed an ownership interest and that he never approved the Comedy Dynamics deal.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

Inventorship and Ownership: The process of invention has changed significantly as a result of the AI technologies’ quick development and increased computing capacity. As AI-generated works blur the lines of authorship and ownership, existing IP frameworks face significant tests, calling for responsive legal adaptations.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

On August 18, 2023, the US District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed the U.S. Thaler included several new legal theories to suggest that his contribution to the Creativity Machine, such as his ownership and prompting of the software, would establish a human component of authorship.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

DPIIT Observations 01st February, 2023 10. Committee to review DPIIT and DoE comments 7th March, 2023; 16th March, 2023; 19th April, 2023; 16th May, 2023; 03rd August, 2023 11. DBT IP guidelines approved by Hon’ble Minister 17th Aug, 2023 Report of Working Group 27th October, 2022 9.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 15, 2024

The Supreme Court’s opportunity came with the 2023 decision in Nealy v. at 1-2] At its heart, therefore, this case is a dispute about copyright ownership. The plaintiffs responded by moving for partial summary judgment on the issue of ownership, based on the presumption of validity that attaches to timely copyright registrations.

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