IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. These models improve business processes, enterprise analytics and customer outcomes. Merkin , 791 F.3d

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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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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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Intellectual Property Office Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Every business starts with an idea, and every business owns or uses intellectual property (IP). Your IP can include your web site, business name or logo. IP assets can also include innovative technology, know how, designs and secret recipes. Understanding IP can help reduce your exposure to business risk.

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 1, 2021

Since you are reading this article you’re most likely either a designer working on brand identity and logos, or a business owner. A logo copyright protects a creative design or an expression of an idea, while a logo trademark protects things that identify a business on the marketplace. Trademark ®.

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IPilogue

JULY 15, 2021

Behind every costume is a designer whose vision and design breathes life into characters. But behind every designer, other figures may undercut and miscredit them. Disney’s Cruella , released in May 2021 , tells the story of two haute couture designers battling for recognition in the fashion industry.

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Intepat

JUNE 13, 2024

Introduction Design piracy, particularly in the context of registered designs, poses significant challenges in today’s industrial landscape. According to the Indian Design Act of 2000, only those designs that are functional or used as artistic or property marks are not eligible for protection.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. The dispute is between bridalwear designer Hayley Paige Gutman and JLM Couture, a bridalwear company. The district court initially punted on the ownership question. We blogged this case twice before. Gutman in her role as an employee of JLM.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 10, 2020

Another important aspect of the trademark application is asserting the proper ownership of the application. Generally if the business is operating as a corporation or LLC, even if it’s a very small business, generally the corporation or the LLC will be the owner and not the individual. It’s actually the opposite.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 28, 2022

Trade mark ownership is an important consideration for any business. Ensuring that a business holds all rights to enable it to make full use of its trade mark should be front of mind in any branding consideration. This is particularly important if the trade mark contains graphic elements or is part of the business’ get up.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 13, 2022

The dramatic rise in e-commerce in the last two decades saw many brand and business owners struggling to safeguard their Intellectual Property (IP) assets in cyberspace, starting from domain names and then going onto social media handles. NFTs may refer to the digital goods or specific pieces sold in the Metaverse.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2023

This has inspired some ‘entrepreneurs’ to use them in business, by setting up dropship services that print Musk’s memes on T-shirts and other goods, for example. Again, the takedown requests target several stores that sell clothing with a print of this meme, with ‘Musk’ claiming ownership of the memes themselves.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The emergence of blockchain-supported Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has captured the interest of the entertainment and business worlds in the past couple of years. NFTs are both a new creative form of intellectual and artistic expression and a lucrative business opportunity.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

In recent years, the concept of tokenization of assets has gained a lot of attention in the business world. Tokenization refers to the process of creating digital tokens that represent ownership of an asset. This can provide a way to fractionalize ownership, enhance liquidity, and facilitate more efficient trading of IP rights.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

A business code communicating within a community designed to be closed. Ownership should require a lower burden of proof: comes from the relationship between the spouses and not from the connection to the creation. Once it becomes a language, you’ve lost ability to control it. It didn’t develop organically.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2025

In India, this radiation diagram is evident in manufacture such as substantial estate, business sector conglomerates, and landholding. That is no longer true, because of digitization of financial records that makes it easier to track financial wealth while real estate ownership is tracked by government.

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2023

In today’s business landscape, the significance of intellectual property (IP) assets is on the rise and is becoming increasingly crucial in various sectors. The value of a business is now closely tied to its IP assets, which can be licensed, transferred, or used as capital in a joint venture.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 12, 2022

There have been no public developments on that front but Carrasquillo now faces new problems relating to a spin-off business. The YouTuber was already considering the apparel/merchandising business and has since used his already well-known ‘Reloaded’ IPTV brand to sell a range of clothing and sneakers through ReloadedMerch.com.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

Combine that “mastermind/dominant” author doctrine with the run of cases discussing ownership of software outputs (i.e., Copyright Office (the Office) when it comes to copyright ownership of artificial intelligence (AI) output. These models improve business processes, enterprise analytics and customer outcomes.

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IPilogue

JUNE 23, 2022

Retired Nicklaus now heads his golf course design and construction company, Nicklaus Designs. This deal involved selling business and assets of GBI that related to Jack Nicklaus to Nicklaus Companies. During his career he won 117 professional tournaments and 18 major championships, which is 3 more than Tiger Woods.

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Intepat

APRIL 2, 2022

Any product, design, or process that does something using a novel methodology or solves an existing technical problem is an invention. One such successful example is IBM (International Business Machines Corporation), which takes up patenting its innovations quite sincerely. Sense of ownership. Source of revenue.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Read this Tidbit by Kaustubh Chakrabarti on the Delhi HC ruling that the Regional Director under the Companies Act has no jurisdiction to decide ownership of a trademark. The defendants are in a similar business and were alleged using deceptively identical marks like LOUIS PHILLIPE and LORIS PHILIPPE.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

It originally started as a copyright society in 1941 , but later lost that designation and after a long period of running around seeking re-registration, finally in 2022 it was allowed to make an application to that regard. Presently, the application for re-registration is pending before the government for consideration.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns had a detrimental influence on fashion companies, which further motivated them to grow their business on the Metaverse. It provides an unmatched degree of design and layout possibilities. Not to mention, it allows for almost infinite expansion, allowing marketers to design apparel of any size.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 14, 2023

In addition, any corporation, LLC, or other entity that is formed under the laws of a foreign country and is registered to do business in any State or tribal jurisdiction is also subject to the CTA. entities, such as limited partnerships and business trusts/statutory trusts; and Non-U.S. corporations; U.S. LLCs; Other similar U.S.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you are a policy-maker, prospective business partner or investor, IP Australia wants you to know that a useful way to identify small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with high growth potential is to look at their IP activity. What about business owners? The study finds that, on average, SMEs that own IP rights (IPRs) are 3.5

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CopyrightsWorld

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Get proof of ownership by registering your copyright. It can help you mitigate the risk of expensive and timely litigation, whether you are a claimant or a defendant, as you have proof of ownership. This is a very good example of how a copyright notice can help as evidence of ownership in case of legal dispute.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 26, 2023

SBIR PRogram Benefits The SBIR program is designed to support small businesses in bringing innovative technologies to the market by funding research and development activities. This allows small businesses to maintain control over their company and it’s intellectual property despite the federal partnership.

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azrights

MARCH 23, 2022

Understanding the legal rules around names is important because they’re the single most valuable intellectual property asset a successful business builds. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. What’s often involved is to find a new name, get a new logo and website, pay for new signage, new menu designs, and flyers. Lessons in Business.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 20, 2024

To help you navigate the path toward a registered trademark, keep the following key points in mind: Words are generally more important to protect than designs. Each application must include a “drawing” of the word or design to be protected. The ownership must be identified correctly (e.g. Know your business.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2023

The categorization of social media accounts into “business” and “personal” accounts was a hot issue a decade ago, when states across the country passed laws to protect employees from invasive employer demands to access or control their personal social media accounts. The court doesn’t endorse this test.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

Like the United States, China offers protection for 2D and 3D designs of products and packaging, which is often known by U.S. Before diving into details, the chart below illustrates how 2D and 3D designs are protected as different IP rights in China. Protection of 2D Designs. Protection of 3D Designs. Trademark.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

used in those generated logos retain the ownership to that original art and do not give you a license to use it exclusively. usually you won’t be given the rights needed to have ownership or apply for registration, but even if you are, your logo could still be refused copyright and trademark registration for other reasons.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, for years (and even under the FTC’s overreaching proposed rule), non-competes in the sale of business context have generally received less scrutiny. The Delaware Chancery Court threw the deal world a curveball when it recently declined to enforce a sale of business non-compete.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 5, 2021

With one of the most important forms of business organization, the partnership is the most sought by young entrepreneurs. This form of business generally takes two or more person who comes together for the business based on certain agreement. The registration process is also very cheap as compared to other business forms.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2022

What if I were to tell you, you could be both an LLC and an S-corporation and still be considered one single business entity? An S-corporation is a state law entity designation, similar to a Florida corporation or a Florida limited liability company. Small Business Trust (“ESBT”). Pass-Through Taxation.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2022

What if I were to tell you, you could be both an LLC and an S-corporation and still be considered one single business entity? An S-corporation is a state law entity designation, similar to a Florida corporation or a Florida limited liability company. Small Business Trust (“ESBT”). Pass-Through Taxation.

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