Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Your Copy-Rights. Utility and Design Patents. That’s understandable. How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case. © Steve Schlackman (1975).

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Intellectual Property Invention Intellectual Property Law Design Patent 67

IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unveiling Merchant Privileges in the Shadows of Craftsmanship Developing nations like India require financial and technical support to market their products internationally and attain the sustainability of GI. It’s possible that India unintentionally made it harder for its Artisans to obtain GI protection for their agricultural goods.

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Registration Blogging Designs Design 94

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. To reproduce, store, issue copies to public, perform, communicate, and make translation or adaptation of the work. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS.

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Intellectual Property Moral Rights Designs Design 52

LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

Many people were disappointed when the most-watched copyright case of the past 10 years, Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Google’s copying Java application programming interface (API) code, failed to yield better guidance on the scope of copyright protection for computer programs. Of course, the Court did neither.

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Copyright Fair Use Copying Public Domain 52

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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Art Law Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Your Copy-Rights. Utility and Design Patents. That’s understandable. How To Win Big In a Copyright Infringement Case. © Steve Schlackman (1975).

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Intellectual Property IP Invention Designs 52

IIPRD

JANUARY 23, 2023

It further expanded its domain as a manufacturer by establishing a market for its self-made products such as kindle for e-book services, audiobook and ‘cloud computing’ web storage services. Patent are valid for the duration of 20 years before coming into public domain) Patent infringement can occur in two ways.

Patent Infringement 52

Patent Infringement Patent Cease and Desist IP 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In today’s era, where the whole world has turned to virtual means, blockchain as a technology is gathering everyone’s attention and showing accelerating growth in its market. The nodes authenticate transactions, add the data to their copy of the common ledger and transfer the ledger additions to all other nodes.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Recently, the office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks granted a patent to a ragi walnut soup mix prepared by the 52-year old woman, Shubhangi Patil. The claim of the applicant should not be the one existing in the public domain at the date of filing of an application. Introduction. Conclusion.

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Patent Invention Public Domain Patent Application 40

Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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Fair Use Copying Publishing Copyright 72

Intepat

APRIL 4, 2022

It is time to think if our ideas are patentable if we share them in the public domain. Distributing marketing and sales materials such as pamphlets, brochures, etc, 2. This can also occur as a consequence of sharing your ideas in the public domain. The post Can We Patent An Idea That Made To Public?

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Public Domain Social Media Patent Invention 97

SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Controller of Patents and Designs. Case: Biomoneta Research Vs Controller General of Patents Designs on 13 March 2023 (Delhi High Court) The matter pertained to an appeal against the order of the controller rejecting a patent application for ‘Air Decontamination Assembly’. 7 of the plaintiff’s registered design of urination device.

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Designs Design Cease and Desist Art 105

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Hulm Entertainment alleged Fantasy Sports had substantially copied its ‘original trading and stock features’ along with the graphical user interface (GUI) of their fantasy sports mobile application “Exchange22”. The matter found itself back in court, before the Division Bench (DB), in less than a month though.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

Press publishers are dependent on platforms like Google and Facebook for referential traffic on their website making it difficult for them to negotiate with giant platforms especially the ones with the dominant market position. The EU took the Intellectual Property route by introducing a related right under its copy right law.

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IIPRD

MAY 4, 2023

To qualify as a patentable invention, the invention: must not be in the public domain or have been published or used previously; must not be obvious and must involve a technical advancement; and must be capable of being implemented commercially. More and more involve collecting data that is processed via algorithms “in the cloud”.

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Intellectual Property Invention Public Domain Patent 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Gripers and Political Critics Cases involving criticism of ordinary commercial actors provide a fascinating contrast to both noncommercial speech sold in the market and to political and religious conflicts. TM bullying w/ a public domain quilt, claiming rights over “Dear Jane” as quilt/software. What to do next?

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Trademark Law Trademark Art Branding 70

43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

RT: I would say lots of courts in © also try to reduce merger to meaning that you can do anything but copy verbatim, which is a narrowing that many courts in TM don’t bother with, though some variants of Rogers v. Every figurative TM will be protected by ©/design, built into the system. Why not have it across all consumer markets?

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Trademark Law Law Trademark Registration 73

43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The 2001 Documentary “sold 50,000 copies in two weeks and revolutionized the Baltimore dirt-bike culture,” inspiring a sequel and plans to make a third film. In addition, the design of the title of the 2013 Documentary was allegedly similar to plaintiffs’ registered 12 O’Clock Boyz logo. The similarities in setting, theme, etc.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Trademark Copyright Editing 52

SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Revenue to share copy of its report filed earlier. vs Assistant Controller Of Patents and Designs on 5 January, 2023 (Delhi High Court). Google preparing to approach Supreme Court of India against the CCI’s ruling that will force it to change how it markets its android platform. & Anr on 4 January, 2023 (Delhi High Court).

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Trademark IP Registration Reporting 105

43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

The court of appeals kicked out nearly $42 million in penalties because there was no evidence of what Ethicon’s employees and agents actually said in oral marketing communications, which is a good incentive not to leave a record I guess, but affirmed the rest. So too with its marketing communications to doctors and patients.

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Advertising Advertising Marketing Marketing 57

43(B)log

JUNE 24, 2022

Which is the same as the problem of market definition, with which TM law has long grappled unsuccessfully and largely silently. If we don’t have a coherent idea of TM market definition the problem will pop back up in other places no matter how hard we try to deny that. It’s text and not design so we don’t call it ornamentality.

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Trademark Law Law Trademark Fair Use 54

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. Maybe sponsorship/affiliation reflects what brands are doing and how consumers think.

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Trademark Law Branding Brands 44

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Tuesday’s long-awaited ruling in Case C-401/19 finally brings some clarity to the almost three-year-long discussion about the implementation of Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (DSM Directive). The judgment comes almost a year and a half after the Court heard the parties to the case in November 2020.

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Copyright Law Intellectual Property Law Public Domain 106

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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