Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I’ve repeatedly expressed my opposition to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC), and now I’ve put my opposition into more formal terms for a judge. With the pro bono assistance of Jenner & Block, I filed an amicus brief in support of NetChoice’s motion to a preliminary injunction against the AADC.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 23, 2025

Using her experience and her savings, she started a reseller company distributing fashion items designed and manufactured in Ukraine. Today, Yanas turnover has reached 100k, and she now needs help to scale up her business. The Dragons set to work questioning Yana about her business model. Expanding your business overseas?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2023

Despite the California Legislature’s blunder last year with AB 2273 (the Age Appropriate Design Code), many states, including Minnesota, are stubbornly pushing for nearly identical laws. The bill describes the following obligations for in-scope businesses: Data Protection Impact Assessments. Default Privacy Settings.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

2: Textile Designer Sues Zulily for Copyright Infringement. Next up today, Guy Demarco at Law Street Media reports that fabric maker EKB Textiles has filed a lawsuit against ecommerce platform Zulily alleging copyright infringement of their fabric designs. 3: BMI Is Changing to a For-Profit Business Model.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

There are countless services that will help you get started and a never-ending slew of tools to help you get your business or personal endeavor online. To help with this, many web designers, especially those that are new to it, get help in the form of themes or stock templates that can be obtained from a variety of sites.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

The Commission is soliciting written comment, data, and arguments concerning the need for such a rulemaking to prevent persons, entities, and organizations from impersonating government agencies or staff and businesses or their agents.” trademarks for clients who are overwhelmingly small businesses. Comments of Erik M.

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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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

For independent creators, every hour spent working on one’s copyright is an hour not spent on creating new work or running their business. The reason for this is simple, the systems for organizing, registering and enforcing copyrights were, by in large, designed for large copyright holders. Though they provide a link to the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A trademark is a symbol or design or word or phrase that acts as an identifier for a business goods or services. A business may come up with a unique design to stand out from its competitors, to act as a differentiating symbol for the company.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 24, 2022

First off today, Laure Guilbault at Vogue Business reports that the French court of appeal has ordered Louis Vuitton to pay designer Jocelyn Imbert €900,000 ($990,000) for infringing a lock design that she created.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Even in situations where a business owner contracts a third-party web designer to build their website, both the business and the web designer can be held liable for copyrights violated if they are used on your website. 2024 Update first appeared on Traverse Legal.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

2: Designer for Poler Branding Sues the Outdoor Apparel Brand’s New Owner. According to the lawsuit, Poler and Land Art & Design had an oral agreement at Poler’s launch to allow for use of the designs in question. It also targets YouTube alleging that the video sharing site hosts video of Free Fire gameplay.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We’ve seen a flood of terrible Internet laws in the past few years, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The AADC would require many businesses to sort their online visitors into adults and children–necessarily requiring age authentication–so that children can receive heightened statutory protections.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

With so many IPs available trademarks, patents, copyrights, and more – how can you choose the right one for your work, product, or business? All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. are intellectual properties owned by individuals and/or businesses.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its certain that none of us enjoy putting a soggy brolly back into our bags, and Gilley promises a solution to these common issues with its wind-proof design thats also less prone to loss thanks to its hard, moisture-wicking case. Or left out to dry and forgotten in the corner of a restaurant?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

The only profitable approach for businesses is to screen for users’ age and categorically deny services to any minors, period. The post A Short Explainer of How California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Bill (AB2273) Would Break the Internet appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

2: Maine Costume Maker Claims Retail Giants Undercut Her Business Through Copyright Theft. Okolita began making costumes in 2014 for her own children and turned that into a business the following year. However, the Senators not the other registrars have had similar relationships in place for years and have had few issues.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Drawing on 2023 filing, registration and renewals statistics from national and regional IP offices and WIPO, WIPI covers patents, utility models, trade marks, industrial designs, microorganisms, plant variety protection and geographical indications. International Business Law - LL.M. programmes: - LL.M. More details available here.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2025

The sentencing doesn’t come as a surprise, as Kanda pleaded guilty to three charges; violating the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and Fraud Act 2006. However, it’s important to note that he’s far from a mastermind in the grander pirate IPTV business.

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McKinsey Operations

JANUARY 4, 2023

Although a fully immersive, interconnected metaverse remains years away, mobility stakeholders can already capture real business value from the technologies designed to enable it.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Assistant Controller of Patents & Designs, holding that methods for producing antibodies through the genetic modification of non-human animals are indeed patentable. David and Elizabeth Emanuel, designers of Princess Diana’s iconic wedding dress have settled their dispute concerning the sale of design drawings.

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Intepat

MARCH 13, 2025

Architectural designs came to be recognised as a form of intellectual property capable of protection after the 1908 Amendment to the Berne Convention, 1886. This inclusion was crucial in recognising and protecting the rights of architects over their architectural designs and works.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2023

Controller of Patents and Designs: Revisting the CRI Guidelines and Ferid Allani Sukarm Sharma Software patenting remains one of the most contentious issues in patent law jurisprudence, with an ever ping-ponging legal position. Sukarm is an undergraduate law student at NLSIU, Bangalore. Microsoft v.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 31, 2022

This movie initially began with patents and business software, but has been reportedly expanded to include all types of copyright-protected content. This was backed up by the Business Software Alliance, which released a survey in 2018 that said some 62% of all software installed in the country was unlicensed.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Shopify, for its part, has issued a statement saying that it takes intellectual property violations very seriously and has processed over 90% of its copyright and trademark reports within one business day. Have a designated agent to receive notices of copyright infringement. Copyright Office.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

These platforms deployed various business models, but for consumers who signed up for a short trial, what followed was never good. In many cases busy people simply didn’t know that their opportunity to cancel had expired, or that they were being charged $50 or $60 every month for absolutely nothing.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 9, 2022

But, for the vast majority of businesses over time, they traditionally haven’t had a lot of need to protect non-traditional trademarks. Footwear designs can also be registered as trademarks. Think about Air Jordans, think about Vans, and a lot of other footwear designs are now commonly registered as trademarks.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The two seek 75K for 1% of their business. The bowl is licked clean and its on to business. Deborah offers the full 75K for 3% of the business which is quickly matched by Steven Bartlett. A great result, Omni have secured a strong deal and the Dragons believe in their business. The value of a bees life.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 22, 2025

Introduction to the cyber-crime and the cyber-world; The cyber-crime can be defined as any criminal activity that involves advanced technology specially; any malfunctioning in Computers, Softwares designed, Networked devices or any other related device can be considered cyber-crime. The malware exploited a Microsoft Windows vulnerability.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

million in copyright damages against Skiplagged—but the website’s business model remains largely unaffected. When misused, copyright—meant to safeguard creative expression—can become a tool to stifle competition or a backdoor means to restrict business practices that, though controversial, remain legal.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

It is found throughout nature—from the human body to plants—and creates structure and harmony intentionally by design. The golden ratio is also found in art, music, design and many other places. The more a business protects its trademark, the more that protection will build on itself over time and expand.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

It also includes record labels and other businesses involved in the release of more than three dozen songs that the musicians say ripped off their work. Zara, known as a “fast fashion” brand, is often in the defendant’s chair in such cases, accused of ripping off designs from pricier competitors.

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IP Law 360

MAY 6, 2024

The North Carolina's business court scrapped an interior designer's claims that a competitor stole cabinetry designs and customer information when it hired a former employee, sparing only an accusation that the ex-worker embezzled money.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 18, 2024

Giselle asked for £50k and help with scaling-up her business Acu Seeds , in exchange for a 10% share in the business. Giselle told the Dragons about her inspirational story that led to starting her own business. Soon after this she fell pregnant, and it was whilst on maternity leave that she set up her business, Acu Seeds.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2023

California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. Today’s case doesn’t answer the question, but boy, it’s a red flag.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

VIP Products, LLC decision, which altered the way the “Rogers test,” a doctrine designed to protect First Amendment interests in the trademark context, should be applied. By: Proskauer - Minding Your Business A recent decision out of the Ninth Circuit, Punchbowl, Inc.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If you are in business and use a word, phrase, symbol, design, or any combination of these to identify your goods or services, you have a trademark and need to consider "What does trademark law protect against?". By: Whitcomb Selinsky, PC

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