The IPKat

MAY 3, 2022

in Class 35 and “ [d]ownloadable virtual goods created with blockchain-based software technology and smart contracts, in the nature of footwear, clothing, bags, accessories and charms for decorating footwear, clothing, bags and accessories ” in Class 9 (see here ). Pictures in the lower middle are in the public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. Option 3: adopt an exception for any use, with a possibility for rightholders to contract out. Text and data mining (TDM).

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

And be sure to confirm that all domain names and social media accounts are registered to the company; you would be surprised at how often a domain name or social media account is registered to an individual company employee and not the company itself. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. Now, further initiatives are needed to support the tailoring of a copyright regime, in contract and statute, to encourage the use of reversion provisions.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

The EU copyright framework needs to be ameliorated in this regard and the articles 18 sq of the CSDM directive (the so-called “copyright contract law” rules) cannot be the final word on this issue. In this regard, a clear reflection on the preservation and legal protection of the public domain against undue appropriations seems necessary.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Public domain resources as a starting point. There are several places where you can find public domain content that is free to use. If this is the case, you will still be the owner of the copyright for “works done for hire” or those that fall under the purview of your employment or creative contract.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 27, 2022

PART 2: of the blog gives a detail about Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Variety Protection and Trade Secrets. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS. These are protected under the Designs Act, 2000, corresponding to Design (Amendment) Rules, 2014.

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IP Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Under this heightened standard, it seems likely that the output of the investments in creating care pathways, and other similarly situated stakeholders, would be considered by the Copyright Office to be public domain. 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. Rearden and Design Data , together with Torah Soft Ltd. Merkin , 791 F.3d

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

For instance, AR could be designed to allow a visitor to access additional information about a particular piece of work, while VR could enable individuals who are unable to physically visit a museum to peruse its collections from the comfort of their own homes, at their own pace.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 29, 2022

There are different legislations and acts such as the Patents (Amendment) Act 2005, Copyright (Amendment) Act 1999, The Trademark Act 1999, The Designs Act 2005, and many more to regulate and protect India’s intellectual property rights. Dr. Cluadio De Simone & Anr. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY KIN OF E-COMMERCE.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Furthermore, AGA also discussed a possible copyright infringement in its design. Through this post you can have a better understanding of reproduction under copyright and related rights , quotation and pastiche , artists’ contracts and internet piracy as well as the Creation Records case. Codible Ventures LLP and Ors.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In August 2011, the plaintiff, an English data center design company, drafted an NDA in connection with negotiations over its potential sale to a competitor. The recent decision in Bladeroom demonstrates what can happen when the drafter of an NDA tries to have it both ways. Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Bladeroom.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria's Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to copyright as movable property.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

And be sure to confirm that all domain names and social media accounts are registered to the company; you would be surprised at how often a domain name or social media account is registered to an individual company employee and not the company itself. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 24, 2023

Under this heightened standard, it seems likely that the output of the investments in creating care pathways, and other similarly situated stakeholders, would be considered by the Copyright Office to be public domain. 2018) (citing Design Data Corp. Rearden and Design Data , together with Torah Soft Ltd. Merkin , 791 F.3d

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

Ocado discovered that Autostore, the patentee, had disclosed designs for patented products to a potential customer before the priority date. In contrast, Russian law stipulates that an obligation of confidence arises only if there is an express contract. Desserts 10.

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The IPKat

JULY 17, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams , PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding copyright ownership of Nigeria’s re-adopted national anthem. Is the national anthem in the public domain?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. Defendant had not obtained the Deposit Design from the Copyright Office. Defendant had not tried to find out why Amazon kept reinstating Plaintiff’s listing.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

The event is designed to encourage interactive discussions among participants through panel debates, with each of them covering 4 or 5 key topics related to each specific sector. There will also be panels on CJEU and General Court case law, judicial approaches to parasitic competition, and international design protection strategies.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

vs Assistant Controller Of Patents and Designs on 5 January, 2023 (Delhi High Court). An Injunction cannot force an artist to continue with contract for personal service even though mutual trust between the parties has been lost, rules Delhi High Court. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes’ enters public domain.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Concerned about the effect the book would have on Twain’s reputation, publisher Harper & Brothers and his daughter Clara Clemens filed a lawsuit to stop further publication of “Jap Herron.” Skully Curly. The Ghostly Trio. stock features of cartoon ghosts in general.?

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The general objective of copyright is to encourage creativity, freedom of expression and technological process by assuring designers, artists, composers, authors, and other creative people, who take risk of their capital in presenting their works before the public domain. Patent Protection and Enforcement. CONCLUSION.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

A business code communicating within a community designed to be closed. If public function, no, but if private, yes. A: author of Esperanto consigned it to the public domain. Authors have options: they can surrender to the public; they can assert complete control; or something in between. Merger is off the table.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Particularly, it was argued that against the backdrop of the pandemic, the medicines produced were in high demand due to their characteristics of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the Covid-19 virus. Top 10 Judgments/Orders [Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity]. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2025

With no pirate sites mentioned at this stage but all other tell-tale signs present, this is unmistakably an application for a blocking injunction under Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. On reading the text, whoever won the contract for the work seems to have been advised that a particular outcome is a necessity; i.e

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the 1960s, the LOVE image gained global popularity through display on commercial products, paintings, and outdoor sculptures, all published without notice and thus in the public domain. Indiana didnt claim copyright in the HOPE image either.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sears/Compco said there was a right to copy things in the public domain; how did that go away? What if we could read that part of the opinion in ways that were less awful? But somehow there’s a big change between Sears/Compco and Taco Cabana.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. “The basic premise of [S]ection 105.[is] ” H.R. ” US Const.,

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Denominations are the generic identifiers of varieties that are designed to avoid deception as the the nature of the goods themselves , not their commercial origin. But last year, Nutrafruit accused them of breach of contract due to various concerns, such as AIGN's failure to pursue trade mark applications overseas.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain. Effective January 1, 1978, the date of federal copyright protection was moved back from the date of first publication to the date the work was “fixed in a tangible medium of expression,” or permanently recorded in some form.

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