SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A quick glance at last week – Madras HC accepts a US District Court’s Letter Rogatory to furnish confidential information, a look at Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters vs Ross Intelligence and many more. The defendant also claimed prior use, and that 303 and 404 are widely recognised trademarks for seed varieties.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 18, 2025

by Dennis Crouch As someone quite familiar with the subject matter, I was looking forward to writing about the trademark battle of Nerdio, Inc. ” (The dollar values of the offers is confidential). NerdIO Limited. Nerdio, Inc. NerdIO Limited , Cancellation No. 92075281 (TTAB May 14, 2024).

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Softgel: The Errors of Comity The Madras High Court accepted a Letter Rogatory from The US District Court in Delaware directing India-based Softgel Healthcare to furnish confidential information to the US Court. The defendant also claimed prior use, and that 303 and 404 are widely recognised trademarks for seed varieties.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2022

I’ve often wondered about the conversations that take place between trademark owner and counsel before filing a keyword advertising lawsuit. You can have a court declare your trademarks weak or invalid so they are less valuable than when you started. How extensively do they discuss the risks? There’s plenty to discuss.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 2, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently released new guidance for practitioners using artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools. The guidance primarily serves as a reminder of longstanding requirements and best practices for patent and trademark practitioners.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2022

LVSA sued Groupon for trademark infringement. Melwani sued Amazon for trademark infringement, dilution, and more. With respect to the trademark claim, the court says the Ninth Circuit’s Multi-Time Machine v. Google. * Competitive Keyword Advertising Still Isn’t Trademark Infringement, Unless…. Purchaser Care.

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Patent Trademark Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. And if you have powerful knowledge that is confidential, will others be able to be able to figure it out after breaking apart your product? Can you keep your US patent application confidential?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a case involving a trademark owner and a competitive keyword advertiser. The trademark owner memorably (and ridiculously) characterized the rival as engaging in “keyword conquesting,” a term I encourage you never to use. The court already sent that trademark claim to the jury ( my blog post on that ruling ).

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

In legal terms, it is a contract signed amongst at least two parties looking forward to detailing confidential knowledge, clauses, statements, or any information they wish to restrict from access by third parties. Understanding the Relevance of an NDA. What Should an NDA Incorporate Within its Documentation?

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 6, 2024

There are numerous different types of intellectual property, such as trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Another type of intellectual property is trade secrets, such as the formula for Coca-Cola, or the original recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

Patents, copyright, and trademarks have been the most widely recognized forms of IP to date; however, there are other forms as well, including geographical indications and industrial designs, which have been gaining attention in the past few decades. Information Protected by a Trade Secret .

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A confidential settlement was reached in October 2020 but it’s claimed that the defendant then launched Digital UniCorn Media and another service called Altered Carbon. The financial aspect of the settlement is confidential but whatever the amount, the studios now want to call in the debt. It later disappeared.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 6, 2025

The single bench in 2018, while rejecting the Plaint, had noted that there existed no confidentiality in the alleged list that was claimed to be a trade secret. The Court has now accepted the Plaint, setting the stage for an interesting trial on trade secrets and confidential information. Aparna Mallick And Anr.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

17 years later, I’m still blogging their ignoble trademark lawsuits. Some “highlights” of 1-800 Contacts’ trademark jurisprudence over the years: 1-800 Contacts v. Unfortunately, that’s standard operating procedure in trademark cases. WhenU (2d Cir. Case citation : 1-800 Contacts, Inc. Jand, Inc. ,

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Samridhi Chugh and Manya Gupta write about this order, explaining how the Court appears to have convoluted the issues surrounding the interplay between trademarks, disparagement, and free speech, rather than clarifying them. It involved the plaintiff’s registered trademark, “SUPREME”. The defendant did not appear in the suit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Whatever legal ambiguity might have existed then has been decisively resolved, at least with respect to competitive keyword ads that don’t use the trademark in the ad copy. Courts almost never found trademark infringement in those cases, but it was only in the last decade that we started to get opinions saying this bluntly and clearly.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 9, 2022

The encouragement towards innovation is legalized under Intellectual copyrights patents and trademarks Rights are provided by the states around the globe. Unlike patents, trademark protection is held indefinitely. Introduction: Appreciating art, culture, and innovation is a prevalent practice for ages.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In 2024, Indian courts delivered several landmark judgments in the field of intellectual property (IP), addressing challenges that range from traditional trademark disputes to modern issues like copyright in AI training and digital piracy. Trademark Judgments Limits of Trademark Exclusivity : Pidilite Industries Ltd.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Edible Arrangements objected to Google selling its trademark to trigger keyword ads. They filed a trademark lawsuit in 2018 but abandoned the suit when it got sent to arbitration. The court says that trademark law: permits the use of trade names as long as referencing other brand names does not confuse consumers and is not deceptive.

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Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

INTA brings together key stakeholders involved in trademark protection, including policymakers, attorneys, officials, brand owners, and top-tier IP professionals. To promote a healthy debate and protect the academic novelty of the content shared, discussions at the Symposium are subject to customary confidentiality rules.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 27, 2025

Trade Secret Violations: Experiences for training AI are mostly confidential. However, where exceptions to text and data mining exist, they are generally constrained to the non-commercial or where the rights holders have given permission. Therefore, processed data contains sensitive information.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Through a bunch of IP laws like copyright, patent, and trade secrets, expressions, innovations, and confidential information are respectively protected. Similarly, courts have protected the personal attributes of various celebrities, including Arijit Singh’s voice, Rashmika Mandanna’s image, and the trademarked name “Sanju.”

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

IP rights come in several forms: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) states, ” a trademark protects brand names and logos used on goods and services. But not all confidential business information that is valuable and generally unknown is a trade secret. As the U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 16, 2024

In such cases there are some factors that essentially set the company apart, such factor has to be kept confidential and requires protection. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) , “trade secrets are intellectual property rights on confidential information which may be sold or licensed.”

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

In Cyprus, Texas , Valcrum, LLC (“Valcrum”), a company specializing in trailer and axle market products, is engaged in a legal dispute with Dexter Axle Company, LLC (“Dexter”) from Indiana over trademark and trade dress infringement regarding a hubcap design. Continue reading

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 1, 2022

This company is owned by anti-piracy lawyer Kerry Culpepper and is the registrant of several piracy-related trademarks, including YTS, Popcorn Time, and RARBG. These trademarks were used by VeePN without permission. No Logging! The settlement and associated measures are confirmed by Andrii Rozum, who is the sole shareholder of VeePN.

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Intepat

JULY 4, 2024

On April 11, 2024 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence Based Tools (“Guidance”) by applying the existing rules and policies to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 27, 2024

UTIITSL contended that certain websites were using its marks and labels or representing themselves as their agents and were providing PAN card-related services, and it has reason to believe that the defendants are issuing fake PAN cards using the applicant’s confidential information. But what are these reasons?

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a case concerning allegations of trademark infringement by cybersquatting and passing off, Delhi High Court imposed damages worth a whopping INR 2 Crores on the Defendant! Image from here. The Defendant, one Namase Patel, was alleged to possess hundreds of domain names with deceptively similar domains- addobe.com and adobee.com.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

IP can take several forms, including patent and trademark registrations, or intellectual property rights arising from common law, such as trade secrets, confidential information, or unregistered trademarks. The intellectual property (IP) of your business has value. By: Smart & Biggar

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

A trade secret protects a business’s confidential and proprietary information. The patent application is filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and is examined by a patent examiner. Business owners often ask whether they should protect their intellectual property with a trade secret or a patent.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 2, 2023

The maker of Fruity Pebbles and Los Angeles rock band OK Go — known for songs "Get Over It" and "This Too Shall Pass" — struck a confidential deal to end Post Foods' lawsuit seeking a declaration that its "OK Go!" on-the-go breakfast products don't infringe the band's trademarks.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, layout-designs of integrated circuits, plant variety protection, and copyright are all examples of intellectual property. With this, trademark holders may now defend their logos on the web as well. IP can be acquired, inherited, traded, or purchased.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

Is it about the exclusive right to use a trademark – “butter chicken” or the “look and feel” of a restaurant?; or the exclusive rights over a recipe – breach of confidentiality?; According to Indian Express , the dispute concerns trademark rights over the dish. Do restaurant layouts function as ‘trademarks’?

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IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A confidential settlement has brought a federal trademark lawsuit between two dietary supplement companies to a close in the District of Connecticut, according to a joint motion to dismiss the dispute surrounding use of the phrase "jet fuel" to describe competing products.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, I blogged a ruling holding that Seeking Arrangements’ trademark infringement claim against Luxy could proceed because Luxy included Seeking Arrangements’ purported trademarks in its keyword metatags. Google. * Competitive Keyword Advertising Still Isn’t Trademark Infringement, Unless….

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

In this video, we will also examine the legal strategies each project got right on trademark registration and copyright licensing. What Is A Trademark & How Does It Impact NFT Drops? A trademark can be any word or phrase symbol design combination of things that identifies your goods and services in the marketplace.

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